Vehicle States

Overview

• Node Name: Vehicle States
• Category: repeat_instant
• File: extensions/flowgraph/nodes/vehicle/states.lua

Reads the current state of a vehicle (horn active, lightbar active) from the map.objects data and outputs flow/bool signals accordingly.

Pin Schema

Input Pins

Output Pins

Internals

Key Methods

How It Works

1. Each frame, looks up the vehicle in map.objects by ID.
2. Reads the states table from the map object data.
3. Sets flow and boolean output pins for horn and lightbar based on truthiness of the state values.
4. If the vehicle is not found in the map, outputs default to false.

Usage Example

-- Flowgraph:
-- [Vehicle ID] → vehId → [Vehicle States]
--                              ↓ horn
--                         [Play Horn Sound Effect]
--                              ↓ lightbar
--                         [Activate Mission Checkpoint]

-- Checking vehicle states in regular GE Lua:
local states = map.objects[vehId].states
if states.horn then
  -- horn is active
end

Key Dependencies

• map.objects - global map object data containing vehicle states

See Also

• Align for Coupling (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• Apply Velocity to Vehicle (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• Boost Vehicle (Flowgraph Node) - Related reference
• FlowGraph Guide - Guide