[help web acess]

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

fetchRemote 

[Stupid Animation]

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

[Some questions about scripting in MTA]

ah loop is something that goes through a table and does something with the data.

So you can read information very easy and it makes your code a lot smaller.

You can write everything there, but you have to put in the the table first.

table.insert (myTable,value) 
--or 
myTable[#myTable+1] = value 

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.

[MTA doesn't start on Wine 1.5]

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.

[applying LOD?]

setLowLODElement 

[fromJSON (SQL)]

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.

[[HELP] 2 Server in DB]

Look at that page to find out how.

[[HELP] 2 Server in DB]

dbConnect 

[Tab Settings]

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.

[dxDraw destroy]

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

[Highmap]

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

[Highmap]

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.

[Radar Coloring]

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.

[Cache option]

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.

[Cache option]

is there a way to actually extract the script from the memory or somehow get the script in the process?

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

[Scripting Tutorial]

Lua isn't something you're going to learn in a day. It takes experience and a lot of time to understand the core.

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).

[technical question]

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

The statement

local function f () body end 

translates to

local f; f = function () body end 

not to

local f = function () body end 

(This only makes a difference when the body of the function contains references to f.)

[Save table on sqlite db?]

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.

[Player animations server side]

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

[help mysql]

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

[Starting Maps for certain players only]

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.

[help Doble Sided]

setElementDoubleSided 

[Need help with an arrest script]

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

[what is wrong with this script?]

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

[help]

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