Advice

[Nitride]

Hey guys, I want to learn to script. Would you recommend learning lua first and then how to script with mta or should I just go straight into mta? Which tutorials would you recommend? How long will it take to learn and become fluent? A month, 6 months, a year? Thanks guys

[Perfect]

I think you should start with mta lua because its easy and simple to begin with. (Like i did)

and it can take 1 weak to 1 year, depending on you.

i can just recommend you mta wiki:- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Main_Page

or you can try to search tutorial in forum or youtube. they are many.

[myonlake]

There is no "MTA Lua" in the universe, it's just Lua. MTA is a modification, and you can script client and server-sided codes into a server. You can also implement modules scripted in C++.

The first thing I suggest is to read and understand the basics of Lua. Here is a list of good tutorials: viewtopic.php?f=148&t=40809.

Read the recommended tutorials first, and then proceed to the other stuff if you have time and want to experience all the things.

The last thing you should do is to get in the MTA client/server scripting. The functions and events and small starting tutorials can be found here https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Main_Page.

[DiSaMe]

Also, you could try playing around with runcode resource. It allows you to execute the Lua code typed in using /run (server-sided) and /crun (client-sided) commands.