New here :)

[rocky168]

Hi guys i downloaded MTA:SA yesterday and enjoyed playing alot! I am trying to setup a server, i have experience coding in sa-mp, vc-mp, lu and little apps and websites (many languages) so all i need to know is where to start and a place where i can get a good gamemode to start. thank you

[Jaysds1]

ok, welcome to MTASA

and to start off, the play resource is started first, so that's a GameMode,

next is you start off from here: wiki.multitheftauto.com

[Anderl]

ok, welcome to MTASA

and to start off, the play resource is started first, so that's a GameMode,

next is you start off from here: wiki.multitheftauto.com

You're wrong. He should start learning Lua first:

http://lua.org

http://lua-users.org

[rocky168]

Thanks guys , found this on wiki :-

function createVehicleForPlayer(thePlayer, command, vehicleModel) 
    local x,y,z = getElementPosition(thePlayer) -- get the position of the player 
    x = x + 5 -- add 5 units to the x position 
    local createdVehicle = createVehicle(tonumber(vehicleModel),x,y,z) 
    -- check if the return value was ''false'' 
    if (createdVehicle == false) then 
        -- if so, output a message to the chatbox, but only to this player. 
        outputChatBox("Failed to create vehicle.",thePlayer) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("createvehicle", createVehicleForPlayer) 

Don't it require the vehiclemodel in addCommandHandler since createvehicleforplayer function has it?

[Jaysds1]

no, there's only 2 addCommandHandler vars, one is for the command name and the other is for the function name,

so what ever the player types in after the command name is a var meaning it's the vehicleModel.

Example:

addCommandHandler("hey",function(source,_,sentence) 
     outputChatBox(getPlayerName(source).." said Hey, "..sentence) 
end) 

/hey wats up MTA Community?

Jaysds1 said Hey, wats up MTA Community?

[rocky168]

no, there's only 2 addCommandHandler vars, one is for the command name and the other is for the function name,

so what ever the player types in after the command name is a var meaning it's the vehicleModel.

Example:

addCommandHandler("hey",function(source,_,sentence) 
     outputChatBox(getPlayerName(source).." said Hey, "..sentence) 
end) 

/hey wats up MTA Community?

Jaysds1 said Hey, wats up MTA Community?

If the player didn't input the vehiclemodel then it will return

outputChatBox("Failed to create vehicle.",thePlayer)  

right?

[Jaysds1]

yes, it would

[rocky168]

Thanks for your help guys , can you suggest me a good base mode to start for my gamemode I am not looking for the ones the servers are running like race, zombie, RPG. Thank you