[Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.6 is released!]

Good job. I have looked into the newest 1.6 features and I am impressed. I think the most impacting QoL improvement is for race servers that suffered from the FPS-bound tire-smoke effect. Now that the 2DFX particle spawning is time-based it should not be too bad. I am excited about the more-advanced engine functions and how that will be used by MTA scripters. Thank you for your continued effort to improve MTA!

[ChatGPT and similar - A serious issue.]

On 03/04/2023 at 12:05, AREPIUU said:

voce abriu minha mente aobrigado estava entrigado com isso a dias sobre roubo de ideias tem acontecido muito comigo

No problem, bro. This intellectual property theft is heavier than ever. In the past it was hindered by the intellect and perseverance of people. But now countless of machines that are capable to estimate and logically deduce using "examples" can be used for that purpose. The degeneration of society using such wild technology is inevitable if politics does not remove the money source. My idea is the following:

- instead of being given the benefit of the doubt in court, CSG or higher language science software models (1) have to prove that they own the intellectual property rights to their output (goes in hand with the AI being a commercial product)

- watch every company or entity involved in (1) by market and political checks, them having to apply to various programmes opening up their databases and activities

- humanize internet technologies, partition the web, make an alternative "internet"

Just some ideas. But the "as-if" principles that those crooks use could make any political safe-guard a joke. In the worst case the theft happens purely in energetical interactions not traceable by the human perception, hidden behind cryptograhically strong communication, output far-and-wide in stochastical spread.

[ChatGPT and similar - A serious issue.]

Dear MTA community,

as an IT expert I have been closely following the recent trend in AI services a'la ChatGPT. Let me break to you that this matter has serious consequences to the IT world. Those bots seem to be performing intellectual property theft on a massive scale, devaluing the ideas of IT experts using their cheap solutions, not caring about the origins or comings of ideas they are trained with. Since even humans have a problem with estimating the worth of ideas and other people, you can see that IT experts will be worth jack **** in the future. To help aid this situation I recommend you to do the following:

1) delete your open source codebases or turn them private

2) think carefully which business ideas you share on the internet

3) do not use ChatGPT or similar AI bots to prevent your personality from being stolen

Mind my words that those enemy AI experts are threatening the values of our society as we know it. Real people are about to lose their hard earned jobs, their value. You must join the resistance and fight. I wish you all a good future. Do not let these silicon valley people steal your uniqueness. Much love to you individuals.

- Martin Turski, company owner of EirDev

[ChatGPT und co. (KI) - Bedeutung für uns als Gesellschaft]

ChatGPT ist eine weltverändernde Form von künstlicher Intelligenz. In ihrer Art die Mehrdeutigkeit der Kommunikation zu erfassen und daraus zielgerichtet Antworten zu geben stellt eine Gefahr für unsere heutige Gesellschaft dar. Die grundfesten Ideale des Kapitalismus, der Wertschätzung werden beraubt in dem man seine eigene Existenz in diese Netzwerke opfert. Mit meinem Expertenwissen versuche ich euch zu erklären worum es in Wahrheit geht:

 

 

[FileSystem Module for MTA:BLUE]

1 minute ago, vicisdev said:

Think this is going to be really helpful in an inventory framework I'm planning to develop. Inventories have a strong customizability factor. Each use case is a unique use case. People would want to add their own stuff, etc. I'm pretty sure this module will allow me to do things much more automagically.

I am happy to hear that! Have fun with this project.

1 minute ago, vicisdev said:

One down side is that people would need to manually include the module binary. Not that this is of a great effort, but it's not very common.

I agree. This workflow seems really complicated. Not much I can do about that though on the module's end. We know the steps of adjusting the server configuration and adding the binary. But I hope that people are willing to get into stuff that seems new to them!

[FileSystem Module for MTA:BLUE]

Just now, vicisdev said:

Yes! One particular useful case is to let people add as much assets (images, col, txd, etc) as they want and automatically add them into the meta.xml using the scanDir API

Yes, you can read files inside of any resource and adjust the meta.xml files according to rules. Be careful and do not add the same file twice. Also think about removing meta.xml entries whose files do not exist anymore.

[FileSystem Module for MTA:BLUE]

9 hours ago, FernandoMTA said:

Hi! Very interesting, it definitely sounds useful. Do you know any practical applications of this module so far?

I would like to see a modloader that uses the scanDir API instead of the meta.xml.

Also a personal webspace on the MTA server for user-submitted mods could be cool.

[FileSystem Module for MTA:BLUE]

Hello MTA developers,

today I have added the Linux version of the FileSystem 2.0 release. I am sorry for the delay - caused by unnecessaringly technical and motivational factors - but this release is the most stable Linux version yet. It is made possible by directly linking to the deathmatch.so Linux module so that fileSystem.so does use the actual Lua implementations exported by MTA.

I was unable to get a LuaRocks version ready because I do not understand how to integrate my custom Code::Blocks build system into it. If there is sufficient interest and straight-forward help I might deliver that too. Wouldn't want to disrespect the hard-effort by qaisjp and co.

Only AMD 64bit is supported. Hit me up if you need any other platform.

Download it here: https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/releases/fileSystem_2_0_linux.zip

Have fun! 

[[HELP] inventory system]

local function invMoveSlots(sinv, sslot, tinv, tslot)
    if not sslot or not tslot or not sinv or not tinv then return end

    local selectedSlot1 = sinv.items[sslot]
    local selectedSlot2 = tinv.items[tslot]

    sinv.items[sslot] = selectedSlot2
    tinv.items[tslot] = selectedSlot1
end

local isdragging = false;
local draginv = false;
local dragslot = false;
local slotrender = false;

function Inventory:drag(button,state,mouseX,mouseY)
    if button == 'left' then
        if state == 'down' then
            if (isdragging == false) then
                self.getSlotInfo = {self:getSlot(mouseX,mouseY)}
                firsSlot = self.getSlotInfo[4]
                if (firsSlot) then
                    isdragging = true;
                    draginv = self;
                    dragslot = firsSlot;
                    slotrender = self.fSlot;
                    addEventHandler('onClientRender',root,self.fSlot)
                end
            end
        end
        if state == 'up' then
            if (isdragging) then
                self.getSlotInfo = {self:getSlot(mouseX,mouseY)}
                print(self.getSlotInfo[4])
                if (self.getSlotInfo[4]) then
                    invMoveSlots(draginv, dragslot, self, self.getSlotInfo[4])
                end
                removeEventHandler('onClientRender',root,slotrender)
                isdragging = false;
                draginv = false;
                dragslot = false;
                slotrender = false;
            end
        end
    end
end

Your system is fundamentally flawed because it does not contain the global inventory list but you are ignoring my messaging so I won't remind you any further.

[[HELP] inventory system]

Definition of the bind function? Actual error message?

[[HELP] inventory system]

Yea so what? What is your fSlot anyway? Are you being serious?

[[HELP] inventory system]

local function invMoveSlots(sinv, sslot, tinv, tslot)
    if not sslot or not tslot or not sinv or not tinv then return end

    local selectedSlot1 = sinv.items[sslot]
    local selectedSlot2 = tinv.items[tslot]

    sinv.items[sslot] = selectedSlot2
    tinv.items[tslot] = selectedSlot1
end

local isdragging = false;
local draginv = false;
local dragslot = false;
local slotrender = false;

function Inventory:drag(button,state,mouseX,mouseY)
    if button == 'left' then
        if state == 'down' then
            self.getSlotInfo = {self:getSlot(mouseX,mouseY)}
            firsSlot = self.getSlotInfo[4]
            if (firsSlot) then
                isdragging = true;
                draginv = self;
                dragslot = firsSlot;
                slotrender = self.fSlot;
                addEventHandler('onClientRender',root,self.fSlot)
            end
        end
        if state == 'up' then
            if (isdragging) then
                self.getSlotInfo = {self:getSlot(mouseX,mouseY)}
                print(self.getSlotInfo[4])
                if (self.getSlotInfo[4]) then
                    invMoveSlots(draginv, dragslot, self, self.getSlotInfo[4])
                end
                removeEventHandler('onClientRender',root,slotrender)
                isdragging = false;
                draginv = false;
                dragslot = false;
                slotrender = false;
            end
        end
    end
end

This is just an example and does not contain the code for cross inventory dragging. You have to implement the list of inventories to do it.

[[HELP] inventory system]

Oh, I remember. How about moveSlots?

[[HELP] inventory system]

I don't see any fundamental design problems in your code. But you seem to have trouble with taking the right parameter to the right place. What does the getSlot method do and how is it defined?

[[HELP] inventory system]

3 minutes ago, iwalidza said:

i can make it better?

and work good .

that not work

What should work? Can you describe it?

[[HELP] inventory system]

2 minutes ago, iwalidza said:

i now it how i can do it i want check if player is still clicking

i use on client click

its do that

I think that with "clicking" you are not referring to the repeat motion of clicking the mouse button BUT the motion of leaving your finger on the mouse button clicked? You can query this information using the getKeyState function by passing the "mouse1" string to it for the left mouse button, "mouse2" for the right mouse button.

[[HELP] inventory system]

Just now, iwalidza said:

how i can chack if player mouse still click 

What do you mean? If you execute the on click handler then a click has happened. Please rephrase your question or show details.

[Storing previous menu before previous]

Just now, Dzsozi (h03) said:

OOOOOOO I get it now, thank you so much for your quick response and time!

I managed to do it, it is working now as expected.

Have a nice day/night, thanks again @The_GTA!

Glad to hear that you got it working! You're welcome. Come back if you have any further questions. 

[[HELP] inventory system]

9 minutes ago, iwalidza said:

and how i can get the inventory player click

Put all inventories into a list, iterate over them in the mouse click handler and check which one has a defined rectangle item slot at the current mouse position. Store the successful inventory in a variable and retrieve it's type field to check which one it is.

[Storing previous menu before previous]

local menu_path = { MENU }

local function visit_menu(m)
    table.insert(menu_path, m)
end

local function get_current_menu()
    if (#menu_path == 0) then return false end
    return menu_path[#menu_path]
end
    
local function unvisit_current_menu()
    table.remove(menu_path)
end

Look at lua-users wiki: Table Library Tutorial

[[HELP] inventory system]

function Inventory:getSlot (x,y)
    for i = 1, #self.slots do -- table
        local t = i - 1
        local xOffset = self.startX + (t*(self.iconSize + self.padding)) 
        local yOffset = self.startY + (math.floor(t/6)*(self.iconSize + self.padding))
        xOffset = xOffset - math.floor(t/6)*(6*(self.iconSize + self.padding))
 
        if isInBox(x,y,xOffset,xOffset + self.iconSize,yOffset,yOffset + self.iconSize) then
            return i
        end
    end
    return false -- good idea
end

What is the definition of the isInBox function?

[[HELP] inventory system]

3 minutes ago, iwalidza said:

what the best idea to get slot from mouse click?

Calculate the rectangles of each slot in the mouse click handler and associate the rectangle with the slot data structures.

[Storing previous menu before previous]

Hello Dzsozi (h03),

your script appears to be missing the path of menus that you are visiting. The path of menus is defined as a list of menu displays d1...dn where d1 is the initially displayed menu, di is the menu that was selected in menu d(i-1). Then switching back to the previous menu is defined as removing the top-most menu entry dn and setting the menu entry d(n-1) as the current menu display.

With that idea in your head, I hope that you can figure out it's implementation. Feel free to ask.

[Change skin after login using mysql]

2 minutes ago, SinaAmp said:

but how to change element model to received skin number

Here:

	if (result) and (result[1]) then
		setElementData(source,"id",result[1].id) --I fixed this part
		setElementModel(source, result[1].skin ) --I fixed this part
		
	end

 

[Change skin after login using mysql]

4 minutes ago, SinaAmp said:

id select from column id and skin from column skin

You misunderstand how the SQL language works. To get all rows and columns of accounts SQL table, you execute...

SELECT * FROM accounts

But if you want just id and skin, you execute...

SELECT id, skin FROM accounts

Thus I recommend you to change the database query to...

	local skinData = dbQuery(connection,"SELECT skin,id FROM accounts LIMIT 1")