Pedstrains and traffic path nodes

[DiSaMe]

And you checked what control states were on your side? It's obvious that vehicle will drive if it's moving for syncer because the velocity and position are synced, but what about the controls? Did you hear the vehicle accelerating, did you see the wheels turning whenever the ped was doing the turn?

[Wojak]

i've made a simple ai to keep them at a limited speed (50km/h max) so no acceleration, but the wheels where turning when new waypoint was assigned...

and because it was on my home PC, it was a bit laggy and the wehicles were sliding at times... (there were about 20 of them) but i still think is playable

[DiSaMe]

OK... Maybe I was wrong about this. It's a long time since I tested that, after all. I could do some test again and see how it looks.

[tropez]

It maybe helpful. I know that in mta we have a traffic resource. Can someone upload it ?

[Castillo]

I doubt someone would use it as a guide, I guess mainly they will use it like it is.

[tropez]

I have heard about custom railroad tracks in 1.2. Is is true ?

[diegofkda]

Custom railroad tracks are already possible - see DKR server.

[Subtixx]

WoW? Custom railroad tracks? How?

EDIT:

That's scriptable though, and there've been a number of resources that implement similar functions.

please. tell me two^^

[DiSaMe]

setElementPosition 
setElementRotation 
setElementVelocity 
setTrainDerailable 
onClientPreRender 

[Sharingan]

I think they will never do this. Maybe they can't do it or it's a lot of work, I don't know but they won't do it. I don't want to be bad, but it's the truth.

[karlis]

this is all scriptable, and with all the issues including bandwidth.

only thing is that it requires A LOT of effort, and i think rather devs do something else and let scripters do their best.

also, as you probably saw already this is tried to be made many times, but all previous ones either are outdated, glitchy, or not published.(i can remember 5scripts controlling peds and vehicles, all shown somewhere in forums)

[DiSaMe]

A basic traffic script does not require much effort. In my opinion, the trickiest part to do is proper driving, and still, it shouldn't be difficult. Making paths everywhere takes some time, but that's not a big problem. For the beginning, a part of the map with traffic can be enough, after all. Also, traffic doesn't have to be dense. I think a small number of NPCs already makes the gameplay better and shouldn't use too much bandwidth. So the only reason we don't see NPC traffic in servers is because people don't want it so much.

[AGENT_STEELMEAT]

I've made a beta AI system, and it works pretty well, however the best implementation would be if MTA used task sync rather than control sync. There are plans to use task sync in future versions of MTA, but implementing task sync would be a MAJOR change.

In other words, skeet skeet bang bang mohfugga.