[REL] Customblips - Create your own blip icons for the radar

[darkdreamingdan]

Ever wake up in the middle of the night, with a chasing you, then eventually running you over?

Well fear no more - it is now possible to create your very own custom blips with the most artistic of imagination! Just call exports.customblips:createCustomBlip with any .png, and watch the magic as this resource does all the dirty work for you. And exclusively for 6months* enjoy the ability to convert any GUI element into a blip - all for free!

To sample our free trial, go to our Download page:

https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ils&id=960

For details on how to bring your imagination to life, see our special Change your life: Custom blips e-book which comes free when you order by credit card!

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Res ... ustomblips

* Until 6 months before the end of time

[madis]

At last you got it finished, Talidan! Great and needed job!

[darkdreamingdan]

It's been sitting on my hard disk since January 2009. I wish i had just done it sooner.

[Dark Dragon]

Your 1337 Skillz are insane.

[Xierra]

Wow! It was finished before the roadmap does it! Good work.

Gonna take some icons for a blip pack,

I think I could make some Hi-res blips? Or a portal icon as a spawn? An ambulance as an ambulance car or a red & blue car as police cars? Awesome!

[dzek (varez)]

I will repeat what i said in resource comments:

I love you ;D

[DutchCaffeine]

...usively for 6months* enjoy the ability to convert any GUI element into a blip - all for free!

* Until 6 months before the end of time

This is a very nice release! I'm waiting for this since i came to mta!

But I'm confused (as natural) i didn't see any time limit in the script, why you tell us that we could try it for 6 months. Of course it could be a joke.

And mta it self is planning custom blips for mta v 1.4.

Sorry for asking, but that is in my nature

Anyway Talidan, you did a great job again! Thank you for sharing this with us, if you were a girl i would kiss you

[50p]

LOL

[darkdreamingdan]

Updated the resource to version 1.0.1.

This version makes the radar blips scale to GTA's default size for blip icons on the radar. You can use exports.customblips:setCustomBlipRadarScale(blip,1) to restore to previous behaviour.

New added functions are setCustomBlipAlpha and setCustomBlipRadarScale, see the wiki for details.

[Slothman]

awesome, i remember this being an oten requested mta feature. definitly a must for any rpg server. does it support multiple diffferent custom blips at the same time?

[Dark Dragon]

does it support multiple diffferent custom blips at the same time?

yes

[Xierra]

Huh, I think Valhalla would also pay attention to this!

Anyone has some good icons? I want it too.

[darkdreamingdan]

Huh, I think Valhalla would also pay attention to this!

Anyone has some good icons? I want it too.

I actually sent valhalla this back in 2009 to test. Apparently they ignored it.

[Slothman]

some people wouln't know a good thing if it crawled up their butt.

Talidan it seems you've pretty much satisfied all requests relating to radars save for 1: a directional blip so we can see what direction peds/players are facing. any feelings towards that particular challenge?

[darkdreamingdan]

some people wouln't know a good thing if it crawled up their butt.

Talidan it seems you've pretty much satisfied all requests relating to radars save for 1: a directional blip so we can see what direction peds/players are facing. any feelings towards that particular challenge?

Doable, though I'm sure there will be messiness i have not anticipated. GTA has it's own built-in directional blips (used on the local player, and on peds during stealth missions) that would be much better to use, if we could hack them in.

[Xierra]

Yep, that directional blip just like the player's blip. You can see that in the GTA SA mission Madd Dogg Rhymes.

That would be good if you could hack it.

[Unknown76]

Yep, directional blips are really cool, maybe you can hack and add them:

http://media.gtanet.com/gtasa/walkthrou ... tos080.jpg

[Woovie]

Yep, directional blips are really cool, maybe you can hack and add them:

http://media.gtanet.com/gtasa/walkthrou ... tos080.jpg

This screenshot helps infinitely. Thanks.

[Callum]

Yep, directional blips are really cool, maybe you can hack and add them:

http://media.gtanet.com/gtasa/walkthrou ... tos080.jpg

That's blip #2, but afaik you can't change the colour of it. I'm not sure about this, but would setElementRotation not work on a blip, to represent their rotation?

And I find 2 problems with this resource, 1 which is already acknowledged.

1. Script is not aware when HUD is hidden.

2. There needs to be a function like setBlipVisibleTo.

[SuatEyrice]

anyone mirror it ?

[darkdreamingdan]

http://dan.bastage.net/mta/customblips.zip

[Cavorta]

Thanks.

[msprod]

hello,

i'm french

how i can make a custom blips ?

have you exemple ?

i create blips.lua in "cistomclips" directory whit this scipt :

addEventHandler ( "onClientResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), 
    function() 
        exports.customblips:createCustomBlip ( 2236.345703125,2458.1728515625, 20, 20, "police.png" ) 
    end 
) 

and add in meta.xml::

<script src="blips.lua" type="client" /> 

i copied "police.png" 20x20 in cistomclips" directory

But no icon in map and radar.

Thanks

[Castillo]

Did you added the image at the meta.xml also?

[msprod]

yes and work now ! verry thanks for you !!!

but i have an other probleme when i script this:

addEventHandler ( "onClientResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), 
    function() 
        exports.customblips:createCustomBlip ( 2236.345703125,2458.1728515625, 20, 20, "police.png" ) 
        exports.customblips:createCustomBlip ( 1832.353515625,-1682.7724609375, 20, 20, "bar.png" ) 
    end 
) 

but server say "ERROR:File 'blips.lua' in resource 'customblips' -CRC mismatch"

thanks for your help....