More Functions should added in MTA

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hi all

It's nice to be these functions and exist

Functions:

  
  
engineloadIFP 
  
cancelAnimations -- Important 
  
loadCustom ped.ifp , anim.img , gta3.imgAnimations (Animations in gta3.img file example rifle.ifp) 
  
getMTAsettings 
  
setMTAsettings 
  
getServerIP 
  
getModSize (The size of gta3.img and gta_int.img files) 
  
setCursorIcon (for custom Cursor Icon) 
  
fxAddGraphics 
  
guiCreateGIF 
  
guiSetButtonColour 
  
guiSetTabColour 
  
  
  
  

Edited January 3, 2014 by Guest

[Castillo]

setCursorIcon > Useless, you can set cursor alpha to 0 and draw your own.

guiButtonColour > I don't understand this, do you mean the text of the button or the actual button color?

guiTabColour > Why would you want to set a tab colour?

cancelAnimations > What is this for?

[Quited]

setCursorIcon > Useless, you can set cursor alpha to 0 and draw your own.

guiSetButtonColour > I don't understand this, do you mean the text of the button or the actual button color?

guiSetTabColour > Why would you want to set a tab colour?

cancelAnimations > What is this for?

setCursorIcon for custom Cursor Icon

cancelAnimations (example : cancel jump animation and other animations in ped.ifp , anim.img and gta3.imgAnimations)

[Castillo]

I already understood what setCursorIcon did, and I already said it's useless, because you can do it with scripting functions.

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I already understood what setCursorIcon did, and I already said it's useless, because you can do it with scripting functions.

ok , other functions ?

[CapY]

• guiCreateGIF: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxDrawGifImage

• getMTASettings: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxGetStatus

And the rest and/or most of the functions you can do via scripting.

Edited July 9, 2013 by Guest

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https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxDrawGifImage == guiCreateGIF()

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxGetStatus == getMTASettings() if you mean on the client settings.

And the rest and/or most of the functions you can do via scripting.

ok , cancelAnimations , engineLoadIFP and other ?

[ixjf]

Ok, let's see:

• engineLoadIFP: Look into the bug tracker and you will know why this hasn't been added yet.
  
• cancelAnimations: As for your example - toggle jump control off.
  
• loadCustom: Is it needed to repeat the same?
  
• getMTASettings: The name itself is ugly, dxGetStatus and getChatboxLayout should also do it.
  
• setMTASettings: No..?
  
• getServerIP: What's the purpose?
  
• getModSize: Once again, what's the purpose?
  
• setCursorIcon: setCursorAlpha + tracking mouse movement and drawing your own should do it.
  
• fxAddGraphics: ?
  
• guiCreateGIF: Maintaining lots of pictures for a single thing is not something I would like to do, an animated GIF (which is the only purpose of enabling GIF support here, I guess) is basically just a bunch of GIFs (they are lossy so I wouldn't use that image file type either) compacted into one - it is trivial and can be implemented easily in Lua.
  
• guiSetButtonColor: You could always render your picture as a button.
  
• guiSetTabColor: You could always create your own GUI library or implement customizable tabs using DirectX functions.

[Quited]

Ok, let's see:

• engineLoadIFP: Look into the bug tracker and you will know why this hasn't been added yet.
  
• cancelAnimations: As for your example - toggle jump control off.
  
• loadCustom: Is it needed to repeat the same?
  
• getMTASettings: The name itself is ugly, dxGetStatus and getChatboxLayout should also do it.
  
• setMTASettings: No..?
  
• getServerIP: What's the purpose?
  
• getModSize: Once again, what's the purpose?
  
• setCursorIcon: setCursorAlpha + tracking mouse movement and drawing your own should do it.
  
• fxAddGraphics: ?
  
• guiCreateGIF: Maintaining lots of pictures for a single thing is not something I would like to do, an animated GIF (which is the only purpose of enabling GIF support here, I guess) is basically just a bunch of GIFs (they are lossy so I wouldn't use that image file type either) compacted into one - it is trivial and can be implemented easily in Lua.
  
• guiSetButtonColor: You could always render your picture as a button.
  
• guiSetTabColor: You could always create your own GUI library or implement customizable tabs using DirectX functions.

getServerIP purpose is to get server IP and has a many uses

getModSize purpose is get Mod Size in gta3.img To verify that the files in gta3.img original or no

"fxAddGraphics" add Graphics to Server (example : ENBSeries graphics)

[ixjf]

• getServerIP: Define a variable with the server's IP.
  
• getModSize: Use onPlayerModInfo
  
• fxAddGraphics: No, use shaders.

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• getServerIP: Define a variable with the server's IP.
  
• getModSize: Use onPlayerModInfo
  
• fxAddGraphics: No, use shaders.

i know , but if onPlayerModInfo include "getModSize" will be the better.

[ixjf]

Care to explain why?

[Raahim]

about setting the colors, use dx.

[iPrestege]

Care to explain why?

I think he meant the file size as example : 1.mb .

[فاّرس]

getMTAsettings = You mean this for meta.xml ?

if the answer yes use ,

getMTAsettings = get

setMTAsettings = set

if the answer is not true Explain to me .

[Sora]

getMTAsettings = You mean this for meta.xml ?

if the answer yes use ,

getMTAsettings = get

setMTAsettings = set

if the answer is not true Explain to me .

nope i think he meant setting the client settings

but most of his requests are useless .. actually i don't find something useful here ..

[CapY]

Care to explain why?

I think he meant the file size as example : 1.mb .

You don't say? We REALLY, REALLY wouldn't know that if it wasn't for you. Thank you for making it clear!

[DanHR]

What about something so we can easyly replace and ADD car paintjobs (mostly for custom cars, cause default one can use shaders)

[myonlake]

All of those can be done with the current MTA functions, unfortunately.

engineLoadIFP is not available due to it having critical bugs and therefore is still an on-going project over Mantis.

[DanHR]

All of those can be done with the current MTA functions, unfortunately.

engineLoadIFP is not available due to it having critical bugs and therefore is still an on-going project over Mantis.

How can Custom cars get all the 3 paintjobs? D:

And no, with shaders no, shaders will just replace car default body.

[myonlake]

All of those can be done with the current MTA functions, unfortunately.

engineLoadIFP is not available due to it having critical bugs and therefore is still an on-going project over Mantis.

How can Custom cars get all the 3 paintjobs? D:

And no, with shaders no, shaders will just replace car default body.

When it comes down to paintjobs on custom modifications, it gets a little more complicated than you think it would, however in my opinion it could be done - yet I am no expert in that expertise so I can't really say for sure, maybe I'll leave that to the developers.

However, you can make custom paintjobs and with shaders put them on the vehicle like I do.

[DanHR]

All of those can be done with the current MTA functions, unfortunately.

engineLoadIFP is not available due to it having critical bugs and therefore is still an on-going project over Mantis.

How can Custom cars get all the 3 paintjobs? D:

And no, with shaders no, shaders will just replace car default body.

When it comes down to paintjobs on custom modifications, it gets a little more complicated than you think it would, however in my opinion it could be done - yet I am no expert in that expertise so I can't really say for sure, maybe I'll leave that to the developers.

However, you can make custom paintjobs and with shaders put them on the vehicle like I do.

Yes, i already made default sultan a Rally with shaders, but i have to find the way to add custom paintjobs to custom cars.

[qaisjp]

Now to finish off this despicable, rubbish topic by an inexperienced pathetic excuse for a scripter:

engineloadIFP - A planned function since 2009 Nothing you do will change this.

cancelAnimations - just use setPedAnimation(player), that removes any active animation. If you're really stubborn, which I assume you are, use this code:

function cancelAnimations(p) 
    return setPedAnimation(p) 
end 

loadCustom ped.ifp , anim.img , gta3.imgAnimations (Animations in gta3.img file example rifle.ifp) - refer to the first one.

getMTAsettings

setMTAsettings

Nickname: getPlayerName()

Graphics: DxGetStatus

Audio: Why would you need this?

Chat: getChatBoxLayout

getServerIP -

getModSize (The size of gta3.img files) OnPlayerModInfo use this, because no, using a function doesn't make it better.

setCursorIcon (for custom Cursor Icon) - set setCursorAlpha and dxDrawImage

fxAddGraphics - what teh actualwhat

guiCreateGIF - dxDrawGifImage

guiSetButtonColour

guiSetTabColour

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implement your own gui system.

[Sora]

Another good solution

You can now attempt to bribe MTA devs to fix your favorite bug or add some new feature to MTA:SA.

All monies collected go towards meeting the costs of running the MTA:SA servers. (Full details of which are available somewhere)

[Quited]

Ok , What About

getServerIP 

?