Race download map

[Feche1320]

I was on some race servers that map download is instant, objects are loaded as soon the resource is loaded avoiding map downloads.. how is this done? thanks :

[Castillo]

Not sure, maybe they made their maps to be created with createObject server side.

[Feche1320]

Mhhh, maybe I know how, thanks for the clue.

[Feche1320]

Okay I have a problem.. my idea was to read the .map file serverside and then create the objects, but in order to load the map scripts, resource has to be started, but if I start the resource, map download appears again.. any idea on how to fix this?

[Castillo]

Remove the map file from meta.xml, read it as a XML file.

[Feche1320]

But I have more than 800 maps lol

Edit: better question, is there any function to load a specific .lua file? for example: loadLuaScript("scriptname.lua")

[Anderl]

You could create a download manager which would load any resource instantly ( you could do something different for known types of files and simply read unknown type files and create new ones with same name and content in client ). Use:

loadstring --for loading Lua files 
dxCreateTexture -- for loading image files 

And you could read a XML file ( map files ) in the server and create objects and other things there.

[Feche1320]

Thank you! I will see what I can do

[Feche1320]

Okay, I managed to create the objects serverside, no more download but I have issues to load the clienside scripts.. any help please? thanks

[Anderl]

Read Lua files in server, send it to client and use loadstring.

[Feche1320]

Ah, that is smart. And what about music mp3 and images files?

[Anderl]

For music files, get the file's content in the server side and send it to the client, there you should create a new file with same name and with the content you passed to the client.

As for image files, get the file's content, send it to the client and use dxCreateTexture. Just note you will not be able to load the pictures in GUI elements neither DDS, BMP and TGA files. For that, you'll need to do the same as I already said above ( music files procedure ).

[Feche1320]

So I should use downloadFile?

[Anderl]

I didn't say that. I explained what should you do and what functions you needed for that, just re-read the topic.

[Feche1320]

How do I get the file content and send it to client?

[Anderl]

Using file functions and triggerClientEvent.