Vehicle Lua mapmgr.objects is not consistent with actual objects in scene

• After the first vehicle spawns in the map, mapmgr.objects is still empty and it only updates after a second vehicle is added
• When removing other vehicles from a vehicle, mapmgr.objects still shows the list of vehicles before removal

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Alright so I found the problem and found a fix. So in the file "BeamNG.drive\lua\ge\map.lua", the function "updateGFX" at line 1219 will only call mapmgr.objectData function (which updates mapmgr.objects) when there is more than one vehicle in the map (at least one vehicle without a player). This is because the for loop iterates through all vehicles in the map and "o.active" represents whether a player is in the vehicle or not. And so if "o.active" is false (player not in the current vehicle) for the vehicle of the current iteration, then it will update. So it makes sense that when you spawn the first vehicle, mapmgr.objects will not get updated since there is no vehicle without a player (only your vehicle exists). And it makes sense that when you remove other vehicles, it won't get updated since there is no vehicle without a player after removing other vehicles.

So the fix is to change the code of the "updateGFX" function in the file "BeamNG.drive\lua\ge\map.lua" at line 1219 from

Code:

local function updateGFX(dtReal)
  for _, o in pairs(M.objects) do
    if o.active == false then
      be:queueAllObjectLua('mapmgr.objectData(' .. serialize(M.objects) .. ')')
      break
    end
  end

  objectsReset = true

  delayedLoad:update(dtReal)
end

to

Code:

local function updateGFX(dtReal)
  be:queueAllObjectLua('mapmgr.objectData(' .. serialize(M.objects) .. ')')

  objectsReset = true

  delayedLoad:update(dtReal)
end

 

You are absolutely right. Thank you for looking into this!