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If you need to get something from another site, use this function: fetchRemote

Arm stays up because the last argument of setPedAnimation (freezeLastFrame) is set to 'true' by default. You need to set it to 'false'.

Wrong. Loop is a code structure which executes the block of code repeatedly as long as some condition is met. Yes, it can be used with a table, but it doesn't need to be.

I'm not sure if it's more related to MTA or Wine, since I think it's a regression in Wine. I use Arch Linux and run MTA using Wine 1.4.1. It works fine on this version. But it doesn't start on 1.5 releases. If I try to run MTA via terminal, this is what I get: [crystalmv@crystalmv-archlinux MTA San Andreas 1.3]$ wine 'Multi Theft Auto.exe' fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub! fixme:wbemprox:client_security_SetBlanket 0x7d7010f8, 0x1b1188, 10, 0, (null), 3, 3, (nil), 0x00000000 fixme:wbemprox:client_security_Release 0x7d7010f8 fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa324d0, 0xa3d6e8, {7c830ece-5fb3-417a-a1bd-508f45277356}, 1, 0x33f464, (null), (null), 0xa3d6f0,): stub fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xd924d0, 0xd9d6e8, {7c830ece-5fb3-417a-a1bd-508f45277356}, 1, 0x33f404, (null), (null), 0xd9d6f0,): stub fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0xb85f20) stub fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x3c24d0, 0x3cd6e8, {7c830ece-5fb3-417a-a1bd-508f45277356}, 1, 0x197e644, (null), (null), 0x3cd6f0,): stub err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x10051a80) stub fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x960b48) stub fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0xa214a0) stub I guess it's a Wine regression. The earliest version I got this problem on was 1.5.28 and I don't know which version brought this problem. Although I can use 1.4.1 to run MTA, I want it to work in future stable releases too.

setLowLODElement

Since it's not magic, it doesn't matter how you stored the value, that's how programming works. To get the data from MySQL, use SELECT statement in dbQuery and then dbPoll to get the result.

Look at that page to find out how.

dbConnect

Go to MTA San Andreas/mods/deathmatch/resources/scoreboard, there's a file settings.xml in it. You can either delete it to reset the settings or open it and change the scale value.

You can't destroy DX drawings because they don't exist. They don't exist because DX drawing functions don't create anything. All what they do is changing the colors of some pixels on the screen. Our minds interpret these areas of pixels as distinct elements. What's more, since the game redraws the view every frame (therefore removing any color changes done by DX drawing functions), even if we consider them distinct elements, they still disappear quickly after being drawn. But if you call drawing functions every frame, colors of pixels are changed again and again, and our minds interpret this as continuous existence of some distinct element. And if you stop calling the drawing functions (such as removeEventHandler, like Castillo said, or using if ... then ... end condition blocks), the colors of pixels will stop being changed, resulting in illusion of disappearance of something that doesn't actually exist. Therefore DX drawings in some sense are creations of our tricky minds. I hope this philosophy will help you to understand how DX drawings work

Maybe, but why don't you just ask here?

You can cast a ray from sky to the ground to find what material is at that point using. So if you create a render target, go through every square meter (or some less precise area, like 2x2 or 4x4) of the map, getting the material and drawing a pixel of its color into the render target during the process, the render target will contain the map which you can save into the image file. dxCreateRenderTarget processLineOfSight, testLineAgainstWater --to get the material dxDrawRectangle --to draw the pixel dxGetTexturePixels --to get the texture data fileCreate, fileWrite, fileClose --to write that data into the file And remember, when you cast the ray, the local player must be near enough to make sure that objects are loaded.

You can try making multiple narrow radar areas of different lengths and they will look like a circular radar area when put near each other.

How would what be done? If you want the client-side files to be impossible to steal, don't use them. You can't expect to make the MTA client use the data without downloading it first.

Yes. The only way to make sure that no one can get the script is not sending it to the players.

I don't agree. Learning a programming language is a matter of hours (or even minutes if you only count the basics). Learning to program is a different thing and it takes from hours or days (for a basic understanding) to years (for good skills).

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.4.10

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no data type "storage" in SQL. As for table, of course can't simply concatenate it into the string. This is not a good way to organize your database structure, anyway. But if you still want to make it like that, you can convert the table to a string and vice-versa using these functions: toJSON fromJSON And the last thing to say, do not concatenate the values directly into the query string. Pass them as separate arguments into dbExec to avoid code injection.

Don't use element data for this. Trigger the event instead to avoid the exponential growth of bandwidth usage as player count increases.

Why not to run MySQL in your computer (assuming that's where you run MTA server)?

Remote trigger means triggering from server to client and vice-versa. Triggering onClientResourceStart doesn't require that. But since that may cause some mess, you may want to try making a wrapper function for addEventHandler which defines specific behavior for onClientResourceStart event, such as storing the handler functions into the table and executing them at the end of the script.

setElementDoubleSided

It doesn't work on slothbots and NPC HLC peds because it doesn't work at all. targetElem is either undefined or a string.

Variable 'source' is not defined in functions 'martinVehicle' and 'adamVehicle'.

Event "onPlayerQuit" doesn't have any vehicle parameters.