Forgetting how to steal a car

[mammix]

Hello again,
for the needs of my mod, in one of the earlier missions, you learn how to steal Bolt Ace. But now, in one of the last missions to date, I want the player not to be able to enter any of Bolts driving around town.
Is there any way how to make the player not to be able to steal a Bolt Ace again?
Thanks!

[ASM.]

Have you already toyed around with the garage_enablesteal command?

[mammix]

Yeah, I put it in some older mission so you can steal the car, and now it progresses through the rest of the missions.
i also tried to load the differences from mafia's first mission, but you still can steal the Bolt.

[ASM.]

I see.

One option that comes to mind then is to add a second version of the Bolt Ace by copying the original models, registering them as new cars in tables/vehicles.bin and then adding the corresponding models to your mission's traffic actor model list. If you want to make these Bolts stealable at some point in your mission again, you'll probably also have to register the new models in tables/carindex.def which I suspect contains the category map used by garage_enablesteal.

[CurtisTea]

Are these two different missions? Because it matters.
There's a a line "freeride_traffsetup" (used in Init scripts in Freeride) - it allows you to steal the cars that are unlocked at the moment. But you might notice that Freeride Extreme doesn't have this line, it has "garage_enablesteal" lines for every model instead (so you can steal ALL the cars). So this option can work in your case.
Though I haven't checked if unlocking a particular model affects all the older models (e.g.: unlocking Model A might also unlock Bolt Ace). You should check it yourself.

[ASM.]

[CurtisTea]

Well, I've just checked it one more time in Freeride... and we both are right
Indeed, without freeride_traffsetup line in Freeride the traffic density will be at its default level no matter how you scale it in the main menu (I didn't know that, thanks). But it also works the way I described before: if you delete this line you won't be able to get into any of the traffic cars (as if you "don't know how to steal it yet"); you can get only into active cars: your own, mafian cars (I didn't check police cars but I'm sure it works too). That's how it is done in Extreme, where your ability to steal every car is set by garage_enablesteal lines for every single model. That's why I think it might work for modding.

The strange thing is that I've just checked mission mise20-mesto too (where you are surely able to steal the majority of ingame cars) - it has no freeride_traffsetup neither garage_enablesteal lines. And now I have no idea how it works in the main missions. Any thoughs?

[ASM.]