Question to dxCreateTexture

[Geramy92]

Hey there,

i want to create a little script for the advertisesigns in gtasa. For that script it is nessesary that the images are easy to change (the best way will be that it can change while server is running)

so the imagefile cannot be written in the meta.xml

so i have the Question:

at the function dxCreateTexture, can i use an http path for the filepath (for example http://example.com/text.png)

and if not, is there an workaround which is working??

[myonlake]

You cannot change a texture of an object, skin or anything with normal pictures. They must be in .txd and .dff files or you can use shaders.

Shaders »

Engine functions »

Client-side

engineLoadTXD 
engineImportTXD 
engineLoadDFF 
engineReplaceModel 

[Geramy92]

sry i think you don't understand

i have an working script! Its like the Shader for the animations in advertising in the exampleshaders

for create such advertise sign you need an picture for dxCreateTexture

see https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxCreateTexture

first argument

now the question is: is there anyway for not writing the path in meta.xml

(like playSound)

[denny199]

use fetchRemote

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/FetchRemote

so you can recieve the image from the website.

[50p]

You can use the second variant where you pass pixels instead of file path. You can use downloadFile and onClientFileDownloadComplete but these both are available in nightly at this time. If you want to do it with 1.3 then you can use fetchRemote to do the same thing but instead it's the server that downloads the file and then you can send it to clients.