Concurrency, custom event never tracked?

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When using a custom event to check when a player “Gets back on a vehicle” the event GotBackOnVehicleEvent(Slot).Signal() never wins in my race event!

What am I doing wrong? Snippet:

    GotBackOnVehicleEvent<public>(Slot:int) : event() = event(){}
    ExitedVehicle(Agent:agent, Slot:int):void=
        Print("Player exited Vehicle! Slot: {Slot}")
        spawn { CheckRespawnVehicle(Agent, Slot) }

    CheckRespawnVehicle(Agent:agent, Slot:int)<suspends>:void=
        race:
            block:
                GotBackOnVehicleEvent(Slot).Await()  
                Print("Player got back on vehicle! Slot: {Slot}")              
            block:
                Sleep(EmptyVehicleRespawnTime)
                Print("Player didnt get back on vehicle in time!")
                if. Vehicle := DirtBikes[Slot] then Vehicle.RespawnVehicle()

    EnteredVehicle(Agent:agent, Slot:int):void=
        Print("Player entered vehicle! Slot: {Slot}")
        GotBackOnVehicleEvent(Slot).Signal()

All Print events happen except for:

Print("Player got back on vehicle! Slot: {Slot}")
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GotBackOnVehicleEvent is a function and thus returns a new event() object every time - you should use an array or map instead to ensure the same object is being used

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Hey @Ep8Script, thanks for the reply.

Can you explain this further? I’ve successfully used events before, for example if I used

GotBackOnVehicleEvent<public>() : event() = event(){}

and

GotBackOnVehicleEvent().Signal()

These would work fine - how exactly does adding Slot:int change it’s purpose and in what scenario would I use this if not in my case?

Edit: I solved my particular case by using a class that handles events, however still questioning how changing the payload broke things.

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Each time you run GetBackOnVehicleEvent here, a new event object is created - therefore calling GetBackOnVehicleEvent().Signal() will signal a different event to what GetBackOnVehicleEvent().Await() is awaiting - to have them be the same event object, you’d need to store the event object somewhere as a constant or variable

Are you sure you had this working previously? It shouldn’t be possible

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Interesting, I’ve used it several times this way! Pretty sure there’s also official docs using it in this way.

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Can you double check? I’m very curious because it shouldn’t be possible lol, but happy to be wrong about it!

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Just checked another project and its set up like above. Looking for doc examples!

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Are you able to definitely verify it works or share code that does? I’m confused :sweat_smile: