@Paracosma Hey bro, any chance you can get Roxie to spawn and fix in North Yankton if it's possible? I tried calling her but she got lazy, lol.

@Paracosma At long last the trouble-shooting slog has ended and the mechanic's delightful face is showing up on the in-game phone. Thank you for going the extra mile to make sure that this mod works for the so-called enhanced version.

...also thank you for pointing me in the direction of the Straight To Story Mode mod (https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/straight-to-story-mode)... Works perfectly with no issues. Now I'm going to do my best to see if I can break your mod for you, since I am that in-house player you had mentioned earlier that is using Enhanced.

@Starfox1993 In my testing of an earlier version, I tried North Yankton and a few other out-there places to "see if I can break it" ... at the time, it was hit-or-miss... which I was fine with, ha.

Immersion-breaking, I know, but there is a Hack option toward the top of the hacks menu that makes the mechanic warp to your location instead of driving to arrive, which (in 1.2.2) just finds the nearest street location and then pops the mechanic into existence there. That case I know worked in North Yankton when I last tried it. But not all areas. The API I'm using to detect navpaths and street locations relies on map-bound data that isn't all there in every part of NY. Or so it seems in my testing.

... I'll circle back to testing that again ... but right now I'm neck-deep in trying to sort out WTF is going on with ScriptHookDotNot on Enhanced ... I've spent the last 48 hours getting to the bottom of it all, and it isn't pretty. I need to hedge my mod against this mess for future versions before I add any new features, I think :(

But thanks for the feedback - I've put NY testing on my roadmap for later!

@Nocturnal85 Glad to hear it. Thanks for the feedback and vote! And, ha, "so-called enhanced version". That made me laugh more than I want to admit right now ...

Thanks for checking out the mod! I'm always open to any feedback in the comments.

UPDATE: I've decided to pause any new feature development for 1.3 , which is still on-targe for this weekend Jan 24-25.

It will contain a few smaller adjustments in response to requests in the comments (thanks, guys!). And a bunch more hedging against SHVDN on Enhanced.

The situation with ScriptHookDotNet on GTAV Enhanced is not pretty. I've updated the mod's description below, accordingly.

TL;DR? Using Legacy? No problem. Using Enhanced? ... See below in the mod's description. SHVDNE may be necessary.

@Paracosma Understood Thank you

@Starfox1993 I just gave it a quick test in North Yankon again. In general, the mechanic will say they can't find a way there, there is no road nearby, etc -- preventing the repair visit. (Again, this is because I rely on -- and check for -- the game's map-bound nav data, much of which seeems missing in NY?).

But, if you use either the "Warp To Arrive" or "Skip Near Road Check" -- the latter of which will default to warping when it can't find any "nearest street location" according to the nav data) -- the mechanic will get there via warp (in the worst fallbackway: a default distance dead-ahead of your location) and perform a repir, but then unless "Warp to Depart" is also selected, you'll see the mechanic has a hard time navigating their way away.

I'd have to see what I can do about this; I've added it to the back-burner, but for now I need to focus on hedging my mod against Enhanced b.s., ha.

(all of that tested in 1.2.2, btw)

@Paracosma I'm starting to wonder if she will spawn in when there's traffic. I will try travel to north yankton. Yeah she told me once her gps doesn't go that far.

@Starfox1993 Ha, yeah. That message is one of the possibilities the mechanic may send when the mod can't find a good location, as in any "nearest street location" to put them ( again, according to the normal map data you find on the main map).

FWIW, such messages are all stored in the INI. The options for this case (by default) are:
TxtMsg_NoVisitForLocale0 = How am I supposed to get there?
TxtMsg_NoVisitForLocale1 = My GPS is good, but not that good.
TxtMsg_NoVisitForLocale2 = Sorry, that's not somewhere I can get to.
TxtMsg_NoVisitForLocale3 = Call back from somewhere I can find.
TxtMsg_NoVisitForLocale4 = I can't find a good route there, sorry.

And, yeah, while on the main map, the mechanic will arrive if you call from a place of dense traffic. But be ready to either wait for them to get through it, or the show of them wedging through (and sometimes under) other vehicles to get to your location, haha.

If you the work site is in the middle of a multi-lane highway, yes, the mechanic will pull up, stop in the middle of it, and walk to your vehicle through traffic. I purposely left it like this for the amusement / emergent factor of it, ha.

The only caveat to calling the mechanic whilst in traffic is if the engine-side of your vehicle is blocked -- if the place where they need to "open the hood" and work from is obstructed, the mod will say so (in a subtitle message) and prevent the visit to begin with.

And if the engine area becomes obstructed while they're on the way, the mod will again warn so, and give the player a handful of seconds to rectify the problem (if they can). If it is unblocked, the repair proceeeds. If it remains blocked, the visit is interupted, and the mecanic leaves (then charges for for the hassle afterward).

Which side of the vehicle has to remain clear depends on where the engine is, and what sort of hood (if any) it has. For front-engine, normal-hinge vehicles (most cases), it is in front of the vehicle. For rear-engine, normal hinge, it is directly to the rear of the vehicle. If the hood is on a reverse-hinge in either case (see a tow truck, for example), then the mechanic has to reach the front-left or rear-left side, instead. The obstruction logic follows all these rules, as well.

@Paracosma I did it bro, I spawned Roxie into North Yankton. https://pasteboard.co/5NDHkuap3M80.png

@Starfox1993 Ha, nice :)

@Paracosma She can spawn into any map as long as the map has traffic path nodes.

@Starfox1993 Right. Or, if using those hacks options (in tbe hacks menu, btw), you can force the mechanic to warp directly ahead of your current location .Likewise for warping directly away.

Obviously I use the API that relies on traffic nodes for the sake of verisimiitude and reliability in their driving w.r.t the path they take -- of course, within the limits of what the game's underlying NPC driving logic can provide, ha.

I have it as a backburner thing to look into the viability of making their driving style & underlying api use (if possible) a matter of INI settings. But that's kinda at the boundary of what I consider in-scope for this kind of mod, ya know? Ha. Time wil tell.

For now, I am wrapping up dev of 1.3 - mostly quality of life and immersion adds, fwiw -- for release this weekend. Then I'm gonna really focus on what can be done about this SHVDN vs. Enhanced situation, so I can perhaps. improve my mod to either straddle both SHVDN3 and SHVDNE, pick one, or remove Enhanced compatibility -- that last move is one I don't want to make, of course.