Scripting Tutorial 1 - User selectable warp points

[ijsf]

NOTICE: THIS TUTORIAL MAY BE OUTDATED! PLEASE READ: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=22270

This is our respond thread for our first weekly scripting tutorial.

You can respond to the tutorial here if you have any questions, etc.

Here's the link to the first tutorial: Scripting Tutorial I - User selectable warp points

[NeDizZ]

Uhm. That was short. =S

Well, will be waiting for the next one.

[Raoul]

What program whas this script made? mIRC?

[Hedning]

Lua...

[Raoul]

oh i thought that was just the language and it whas made in another program

[Hedning]

oops, Lua is the language BUT you can write this in notepad! or Luaedit.

Q: Can I put this script in gta sa and play with it in SP? if so, how?

[Raoul]

That's what i was looking for Thanks

Edited January 14, 2007 by Guest

[Blokker_1999]

oops, Lua is the language BUT you can write this in notepad! or Luaedit.

Q: Can I put this script in gta sa and play with it in SP? if so, how?

No, since you need MTA to run it.

[driver2]

Maybe I'm just stupid right now, but if another player than the one who created the teleporter steps into it and triggers the 'Script_onPlayerClick' Function, will it not beam the owner of the teleporter to the destination?

[Brophy]

LOL @ some of the posts, its like they have stared at the tutorial / past months news but not actually read it

What program whas this script made? mIRC?

LOL

[ijsf]

Maybe I'm just stupid right now, but if another player than the one who created the teleporter steps into it and triggers the 'Script_onPlayerClick' Function, will it not beam the owner of the teleporter to the destination?

I assume you mean the onMarkerHit event, not the onPlayerClick event.

Have a look at the function that warps you:

[lua]setElementPosition ( player, x, y, z )[/lua]

And the event function itself:

[lua]function Script_onMarkerHit ( player )[/lua]

This means it'll warp whoever triggered the event.

[driver2]

I thought only the creator of the warper should be teleported.

[CoZ]

[Guest]

where I can get LUA soft? plz give me a link to a needed version

[driver2]

You don't need any software besides an ordinary text-editor to write Lua. To run scripts you can use a standalone interpeter. But of course you won't be able to test MTA related Lua scripts without MTA.

http://lua.org

http://lua-users.org

Edited January 14, 2007 by Guest

[Brophy]

What? if you wanna make scripts use notepad, notepad++ or luaedit, want the links? then google them

[Guest]

driver2, thanx for info, but I've already downloaded LUAedit. I can open , edit and compile lua files with it.

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Good tutorial. And added video is great.

So we can create our own scripts, but can't test them?

One thing we needed too is 1-2 player server+client to test scripts.

[Blokker_1999]

MTA:SA has a built in interpreter, you won't need to compile anything when you write scripts for MTA.

[orappa]

Uhm. That was short. =S

These are only examples. They're meant to be as simple as possible. We won't be showing complicated game modes with hundreds of lines of code.

[Convirion]

So if you could strip down al the mta scripting, could you make it work for just gta?

would be some kind of fun.

btw nice tut!

[MrJax]

It would be possible for us to make a single-player mod for MTA, which would just start the game normally, but also give access to a lot of features that aren't specific to multiplayer, including scripting, but I think we'll just be improving deathmatch for a while.

[Aeron]

What program whas this script made? mIRC?

Yes, this is clearly mIRC-style scripting ...not

oops, Lua is the language BUT you can write this in notepad! or Luaedit.

Q: Can I put this script in gta sa and play with it in SP? if so, how?

I won't recommend Luaedit, it wiped my scripts directory 2 times. The directory contained very advanced scripts which where EXTREMLY fun. QA Team knows

Edit:

What's up with the new 'onResourceLoad', do I have to change my scripts AGAIN?

[BTH]

addEventHandler should take a function instead of an string imo.

[Robix]

Hmm it's similar to the gmod LUA scripting.I'm waiting now for script for WEapons.

[Guest]

I've got another question.

[lua]

addEventHandler ( "onMarkerHit", getRootElement(), "Script_onMarkerHit" )

function Script_onMarkerHit ( player )

[/lua]

How can i define which variables are passed to the function by the event handler? Or how do i know which variables are passed by existing event handlers?

Maybe a little too indepth for this tutorial, this is probably something for later tutorials.