Help Arena's?

[FlyingSpoon]

I am making a small gamemode, working with a friend's server.

I am trying to create Arena's, I got buttons and everything set, but where will I start to create these arena's?

I don't understand, me and my friend are confused.

[WhoAmI]

What do you mean by area? Radararea? Or some part of map? If so, use colshape.

[FlyingSpoon]

No, no

Like multi gamemode.

Different arena's.

I got to this part with my friend, but now, we don't know how to actually add in or create the arena's.

[botder]

setElementDimension

'Dimensions' are seperated GTA worlds. If you are in dimension 1 (e. g. Deathmatch Arena) you can't see objects/players/vehicles/.. from other dimensions.

[FlyingSpoon]

How would I load maps separately though?

[Derpy]

read map data from .map file(with xml functions), create objects,pickups,vehicles etc and set them to the dimension in which arena they are created

[FlyingSpoon]

Any examples

At this point I am confused

[Addlibs]

local mapFileNode = xmlLoadFile() 
for i, v in ipairs( xmlNodeGetChildren(mapFileNode) ) do 
  if xmlNodeGetName(v) == "object" then 
    local model = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "model") --etc 
    createObject(model, ...) 
  end 
end 

[FlyingSpoon]

So, what does this code do exactly?

[ALw7sH]

For dm,dd,shooter,fun and training

You have to make cutsom map loader(inculd object loader which is easy and scripts loader which is little bit more hard)

And the other things not really hard like map time etc...

Also you can check the race gamemode for that

And for the freeroam there's nothing hard just set the player on any dimension and spawn him

[Addlibs]

arenaObjects = {} 
function loadMapIntoArena(mapresourcename, mapfilename, arenaID) 
  if arenaObjects[arenaID] then 
    for k, v in ipairs(arenaObjects[arenaID]) do 
      destroyElement(v) 
    end 
  end 
  arenaObjects[arenaID] = {} 
  local mapFileNode = xmlLoadFile(":".. mapresourcename.."/".. mapfilename..".map") 
  if mapFileNode then 
    for i, v in ipairs( xmlNodeGetChildren(mapFileNode) ) do 
      if xmlNodeGetName(v) == "object" then 
        local model = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "model") --etc 
        local x, y, z = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posX"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posY"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posZ") 
        local rx, ry, rz = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotX"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotY"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotZ") 
        local obj = createObject(model, x, y, z, rx, ry, rz) 
        setElementDimension(obj, arenaID) 
        table.insert(arenaObjects[arenaID], obj) 
      end 
    end 
    return true 
  end 
  return false 
end 

This code will load map objects for a specific arena (dimension) ID, and delete previous objects for that arena where applicable.

Syntax:

bool loadMapIntoArena (  string mapResourceName, string mapFileName, int Arena/Dimension ID) 

 mapResourceName — Resource name where the map file is located

 mapFileName — File name (excluding the ".map" extension)

 Arena/Dimension ID — Self explanatory

This script will require Admin permissions, because it accesses files on other resources.

[FlyingSpoon]

So is the code all client side?

arenaObjects = {} 
function loadMapIntoArena(mapresourcename, mapfilename, arenaID) 
  if arenaObjects[arenaID] then 
    for k, v in ipairs(arenaObjects[arenaID]) do 
      destroyElement(v) 
    end 
  end 
  arenaObjects[arenaID] = {} 
  local mapFileNode = xmlLoadFile(":".. mapresourcename.."/".. mapfilename..".map") 
  if mapFileNode then 
    for i, v in ipairs( xmlNodeGetChildren(mapFileNode) ) do 
      if xmlNodeGetName(v) == "object" then 
        local model = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "model") --etc 
        local x, y, z = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posX"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posY"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "posZ") 
        local rx, ry, rz = xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotX"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotY"), xmlNodeGetAttribute(v, "rotZ") 
        local obj = createObject(model, x, y, z, rx, ry, rz) 
        setElementDimension(obj, arenaID) 
        table.insert(arenaObjects[arenaID], obj) 
      end 
    end 
    return true 
  end 
  return false 
end 
  
function noobClicks() 
    if source == btnDeath then 
    setElementDimension ( source, 1 ) 
    triggerEvent ( "hideLoginWindow", getRootElement() ) 
    removeEventHandler( "onClientRender", root, renderLobby ) 
    loadMapIntoArena (  "$dm-arena1", "dm-arena1.map", 1) 
   end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", getRootElement(), noobClicks) 

[WhoAmI]

It's s-side code.

[ALw7sH]

dont create the objects on server side

load them into table

and when player joined the arena get the table from server side and create the objects on client side

and also when map started load them into table and send them to all arena players client side to create them