How to change items name in skin list

[dam034]

Hi,

I have the skin list in the client's GUI, I want to change some names in that list, e.g. Duplicates > New, OG Loc > Spongebob.

How can I do?

Thanks

[Castillo]

You're talking about the freeroam skin list? if so, then you can go to the freeroam resource and open "skins.xml" and change it there.

[dam034]

Thamks for this, but I want also to rename some vehicles, both in the GUI list and in the speedometer?

How can I change those in the speedometer?

Thanks

[Castillo]

Well, that's a different thing, you'll have to edit the script for that.

[dam034]

And how can I do that?

Thanks

[Castillo]

Find wherever it gets the vehicle name, and if the name is X, then change it to Y.

[dam034]

Yes, but where can I find the vehicle name to change it?

Thanks

[Castillo]

I don't know which speedometer you're using, if you post the script, I can tell you.

[dam034]

It is downloaded from a website, and I have modified something.

meta.xml

 <meta> 
    <info author="Damiano M" version ="1.1.1" type ="misc" description="Contachilometri con km/h, mph, nome e salute del veicolo" /> 
    <script src="speedo.lua" type="client" /> 
    <file src="carattere.ttf" /> 
 </meta> 

speedo.lua

spfont = dxCreateFont("carattere.ttf", 15) 
  
function conta() 
    if isPedInVehicle(localPlayer) == false then 
        return 
    end 
    sx, sy, sz = getElementVelocity (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) 
    kmhs = math.floor(((sx^2 + sy^2 + sz^2)^(0.5))*180) 
    mphs = math.floor((((sx^2 + sy^2 + sz^2)^(0.5))*180)/1.6) 
    health = getElementHealth (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) 
    name = getVehicleName (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) 
    currenthealth = math.floor(health/10) 
    screenWidth, screenHeight = guiGetScreenSize() 
    windowWidth, windowHeight = 300, 170 
    left = screenWidth/1.15 - windowWidth/4.5 
    top = screenHeight/1.15 - windowHeight/20 
    px, py, pz = getElementPosition(localPlayer) 
    posizione = getZoneName(px, py, pz, false) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..posizione, left ,  top -123, screenWidth +2, screenHeight , tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " #FF8040"..posizione, left -2,  top-125, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 0, 255, 255, 255 ), 1, spfont, "left", "top", false, false, false, true ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(name).." ", left ,  top -93, screenWidth +2, screenHeight , tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(name).." ", left -2,  top -95, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 0, 255, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(currenthealth).."%", left ,  top -63, screenWidth +2, screenHeight , tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(currenthealth).."#00FF00%", left -2,  top -65, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 255, 12, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont, "left", "top", false, false, false, true  ) 
    dxDrawText ( " ___________________", left -2,  top -62, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 255, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " ___________________", left -2,  top -60, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(kmhs).."km/h", left ,  top -23, screenWidth +2, screenHeight , tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(kmhs).."#00FF00km/h", left -2,  top -25, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 0, 255, 255, 255 ), 1, spfont, "left", "top", false, false, false, true ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(mphs).."mph", left ,  top +2, screenWidth +2, screenHeight , tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ), 1, spfont ) 
    dxDrawText ( " "..tostring(mphs).."#00FF00mph", left -2,  top, screenWidth, screenHeight -2, tocolor ( 0, 255, 255, 255 ), 1, spfont, "left", "top", false, false, false, true ) 
end 
  
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, conta) 

And there is the file carattere.ttf, which is the font file.

The name of the vehicle is taken by getVehicleName(), I want to change this in the script of MTA.

Thanks

[Castillo]

You can do this:

-- global:

local names = 
    { 
        [ "Infernus" ] = "Lamborghini", 
        [ "Bullet" ] = "Ford GT", 
    } 

name = getVehicleName (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) 
local name = ( names [ name ] and names [ name ] or name ) 

[dam034]

Thanks Solidsnake14, it works

Another thing: I want to remove the name of zone showed in Old English Text MT font when I enter a new zone of the game.

In the linked screen I have drawn a red circle on it.

Link: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9398/9t4.png

How can I remove it?

Thanks

[Castillo]

Use:

showPlayerHudComponent 

the component name is: "area_name".

[dam034]

Thanks Solidsnake14, you are a very expert of MTA

[Castillo]

You're welcome.