Scripting and Mapping Tools

[Hulkkiller]

Geany: A GTK+-2 and Scintilla based Text Editor with Function List (Windows compatible)

http://www.geany.org/

I like Geany more than Notepad++

[Drakath]

I'm not sure how it was back in 2011 but VMware works fine now. I was playing MTA:SA with VMware Player (Windows 7 Ultimate x86) and I did not encounter a single problem.

[Backsage]

Solidsnake14, or Castillo, I tried doing what you said, it didn't work for me. MTA wouldn't allow itself to open up on another user because it detected another copy was already running.

Edited November 13, 2014 by Guest

[Drakath]

Solidsnake14, I tried doing what you said, it didn't work for me. MTA wouldn't allow itself to open up on another user because it detected another copy was already running.

This doesn't work since MTA 1.0.5

[vx89]

I might suggest IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition with Lua plugin (can download plugin through IDEA itself). Might be a bit overkill, and takes up quite a lot of resources, but if you're planning to create some bigger lua mode/script then can be considered.

[qaisjp]

VirtualBox does work.

Normal VM's have networking set to:

Make sure you adopt something like this:

Whilst you're there, make sure you enable 3D acceleration, like so:

Proof: http://i.imgur.com/ENwGLSz.png

[Castillo]

I don't recommend using VirtualBox, VMWare is way better and faster.

[Armin-Alone-boy]

very nice ty

[Covea74]

nice

[Backsage]

VirtualBox does work.

Normal VM's have networking set to:

Make sure you adopt something like this:

Whilst you're there, make sure you enable 3D acceleration, like so:

Proof: http://i.imgur.com/ENwGLSz.png

Whenever I try checking Enable 3D Acceleration, it makes my VM crash. And it'll do this for any kind of Windows 7 64 bit install I do. I don't know why.

[Sora]

LuaForWindows moved from Google code to Github

WARNING: Moved all downloads and code hosting to GitHub. Older releases will not function when Google Code is shut down. Make sure to upgrade.

here's the github project link

https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows

[billal]

GooD

[Subtixx]

As code editor you can now use Visual Studio Code with my extension over 6000 people have downloaded it already!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=subtixx.mtasa-lua

[FernandoMTA]

With these scripts you can take advantage of MTA's custom model IDs features and use added models in the Map Editor (e.g. map with SAMP objects):

https://github.com/Fernando-A-Rocha/mta-add-models/blob/main/.github/docs/custom_editor#readme