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Hello everybody I'm currently working on a server and have been playing around with loads of different resources and scripts, but I've just come across one that has properly grounded all my gears completely. I downloaded this promising looking resource called "housing_system" which turned out to be a massive headache. It's great, it's simple to use, but it doesn't save any of the properties and as soon as you close "MTA Server", all your work goes. This is very annoying when you spend a night doing almost 400+ properties, just for them to all disappear. Nothing in the readme or description that may hint in any way for you to save anything yourself. Here's a link https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p=resources&s=details&id=1841 Quite disappointed after loosing all that progress, and has genuinely put me off doing the server a bit as I now have to go all around LS (when I find a resource that works as described) It's been uploaded by a guy called "TheTurboCow" but apparently got permission from "JasperNL=D" to edit it and re-upload it. Any help would be much appreciated as the author hasn't linked a thread to it so you can't ask them for support. I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong or if I should be doing something else, as the uploader isn't really much help. Cheers everyone!

There is another solution that doesn't require render targets, and it's closer to dxDrawImageSection in the way it works: dxDrawMaterialPrimitive. dxDrawImageSection only operates on rectangular sections. dxDrawMaterialPrimitive allows you to draw triangles, specifying the texture coordinates for each vertex, and since triangles can be put together to form other shapes, you can do what dxDrawImageSection does but not limited to rectangular sections. There isn't an example in the wiki page on how to use it, but dxDrawPrimitive has one, and dxDrawMaterialPrimitive works in a similar way, only it takes image as second argument, and each vertex has 5 parameters instead of 3 (2 extra parameters are for image coordinates). I came up with some function, for drawing a radially cut out section of an image. I only tested it as much as I could test it in standalone Lua interpreter so I don't know if it works in MTA, but if it does, someone may put it on useful functions page in wiki ? It uses trianglefan primitive type, puts the first vertex in the center and other vertices around it. local white = tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255) local degToRad = math.pi/180 local function makeVertexAtAngle(centerX, centerY, halfWidth, halfHeight, angle, color) local angleRad = angle*degToRad local xAdd, yAdd = math.sin(angleRad), -math.cos(angleRad) local maxAdd = math.max(math.abs(xAdd), math.abs(yAdd)) xAdd, yAdd = xAdd/maxAdd, yAdd/maxAdd return { centerX+xAdd*halfWidth, centerY+yAdd*halfHeight, color, 0.5+xAdd*0.5, 0.5+yAdd*0.5 } end function dxDrawRadialImageSection(posX, posY, width, height, image, startAngle, stopAngle, color, postGUI) if color == nil then color = white end if postGUI == nil then postGUI = false end local halfWidth, halfHeight = width*0.5, height*0.5 local centerX, centerY = posX+halfWidth, posY+halfHeight local roundedStartAngle = math.floor((startAngle-45)/90+1)*90+45 local roundedStopAngle = math.ceil((stopAngle-45)/90-1)*90+45 local vertices = {{centerX, centerY, color, 0.5, 0.5}} table.insert(vertices, makeVertexAtAngle(centerX, centerY, halfWidth, halfHeight, startAngle, color)) for angle = roundedStartAngle, roundedStopAngle, 90 do table.insert(vertices, makeVertexAtAngle(centerX, centerY, halfWidth, halfHeight, angle, color)) end table.insert(vertices, makeVertexAtAngle(centerX, centerY, halfWidth, halfHeight, stopAngle, color)) dxDrawMaterialPrimitive("trianglefan", image, postGUI, unpack(vertices)) end This example should display a looping 5-second animation of image going from 0 to 360 (if I didn't screw anything up): function drawAnimatedRadialSection() local angle = (getTickCount() % 5000) / 5000 * 360 dxDrawRadialImageSection(100, 100, 200, 200, "your_image.png", 0, angle) end addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawAnimatedRadialSection)