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Peds CAN perform almost any action, unlike SA-MP, which only has recordings and animations.

I agree with Remi-X too.

Extremely hard? I wouldn't say so. It may be a bit time-consuming, but not hard. It needs paths on all roads in the map, what may take 2 or 3 weeks, and a pathfinder, which isn't really hard to make.

Yes, I have made a video with drawtag script, but it doesn't use shaders. It uses file functions to create TXD files.

Damn, I put so much effort into uploading videos again, then putting the links, and then it turns out that was unnecessary, but now I feel too lazy to remove files and links

http://www.2shared.com/video/EiB0Ljgz/MTA_carspray.html good quality, big download http://www.2shared.com/video/3sE_t6OK/M ... ray_3.html bad quality, smaller download

OK, I uploaded it again:

Is it just black and loading or does it play for a very short time and then stop playing and start loading? If it's the latter case, try jumping forward a few seconds, otherwise I don't know what to do. Maybe I could upload the video somewhere else...

Really? What does it say?

Although I rarely make MTA scripts and videos nowadays, I spent some time yesterday and today because I thought that was a good idea: Spray paint is made using dxDrawImage, so it covers the original green spray color, making it harder to see.If the video doesn't work, you can download it from here: http://www.2shared.com/video/EiB0Ljgz/MTA_carspray.html good quality, big download http://www.2shared.com/video/3sE_t6OK/M ... ray_3.html bad quality, small download

Yeah, it's better to run a server with that script instead of releasing it. That will be a very fair and very effective way to gain popularity and the most important, people will not get bored of it, so the hard work won't be ruined

It clearly says that value of second argument of addEventHandler is nil, what means that arrestMarker doesn't exist. That's because you try to attach the handler to the element before that element is created. So move that line below the line which creates arrestMarker element.

Native functions for downloading files can be useful, but only for optimizations, as triggering events and using file functions can do the job.

This is to everyone asking for traffic resource: plzzz script it yourself plz plzzzzzz

Yea we know. I could do it but I don't want to BUT SHOULDN'T BE RELEASED EVER!!! Why not? It would be a great contribution to the community itself. I see nothing great in having one more script used by hundreds of servers. It may be more fun to play in such servers when the script gets released, but seeing it used everywhere people would soon get tired of it.

It's clear why it doesn't teleport, your script has no code which has something to do with teleporting. Create a function which uses setElementPosition (oops, didn't read carefully) and attach it to the command with addEventHandler.

Scripting tutorials section can be useful and shouldn't cause any problems as long as people actually teach new scripters instead of giving away the scripts. If you post the whole script, some people will copy and paste them without reading the tutorial. But if you teach them basics first and then write the steps needed to make some kind of script, they will need to learn if they want to have a working script.

I didn't say "good AI", I was talking about basic AI: That's like my PC, except that I have ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series 256 MB and 512 MB RAM. Optimization is our friend Zombie gamemode has some things which could be done in a more efficient way. For example, it uses collision detection for pathfinding. In my opinion, using path nodes or navigation meshes with lookup tables can be faster if done properly

I agree with you. Beginners' tutorials may look hard to understand, that's another thing I can try to make easier. But still, having peds in tutorial isn't necessarily an "advanced stuff". It's not like I'm going to teach beginners to make a ped which is challenging to play against

You're right... The majority wants something for nothing. Maybe I could try helping people more when they want to learn to script... Yesterday I was thinking of creating a tutorial for making NPCs with basic AI. What do you think?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. At least natural selection does its job at making original servers more popular and easier to notice

Benxamix2, I think our opinions match perfectly Original servers is the best way for MTA to become more popular.

OK, I admit I may be bitching too much, but it's disappointing to see people asking for traffic resource for such a long time which is enough for them to make it themselves. The same goes for other kinds of scripts, not just traffic. I can't understand how people who want good scripts remain "lazy" and "inexperienced in scripting" for a few years.

What bad about many servers haveing the mod... It would be great for real life modes. No. It wouldn't be great if half of the servers used the same NPC traffic script. Lack of variety makes the game boring.

Only second reason is valid. I can hardly imagine how someone could miss such idea, and whoever really wants to have traffic in the server, they will overcome the laziness and will learn to script.