Is this a bug or "feature"?

[Gamer_Z]

look at the commented lines "bAlreadyInited = true;//":

  
/** 
 * This adds the local player to the ped pool, nothing else 
 * @return BOOL TRUE if success, FALSE otherwise 
 */ 
BOOL CGameSA::InitLocalPlayer(  ) 
{ 
    DEBUG_TRACE("BOOL CGameSA::InitLocalPlayer(  )"); 
  
    // Added by ChrML - Looks like it isn't safe to call this more than once but mod code might do 
    static bool bAlreadyInited = false; 
    if ( bAlreadyInited ) 
    { 
        return TRUE; 
    } 
    //bAlreadyInited = true;//Current MTA Code, wtf is this doing here? 
    CPoolsSA * pools = (CPoolsSA *)this->GetPools (); 
    if ( pools ) 
    { 
        //* HACKED IN HERE FOR NOW *// 
        CPedSAInterface* pInterface = pools->GetPedInterface ( (DWORD)1 ); 
  
        if ( pInterface ) 
        { 
            pools->AddPed ( (DWORD*)pInterface ); 
            bAlreadyInited = true;//only set to true when local player was succesfully added, right? 
            return TRUE; 
        } 
  
        return FALSE; 
    } 
    return FALSE; 
} 

[darkdreamingdan]

Though the comments are confusing, the logic looks correct here. We only mark it being successfully initiated when the local player is created. Then, when you try and initiate the local player again, it will simply return true.

[Gamer_Z]

hm ok, do you maybe know how to draw a radar area with the C++ source, a call to GetRadar()->DrawRadarArea seems not enough..