VC:MP 0.4 public beta is now up!
Server: 206.217.203.134:5198
Client: http://vicecitymultiplayer.com/dl.php?f=17
IRC: irc://irc.au.ffsnetwork.com/vc-mp.public-beta

Reports bugs at this board should you encounter any.

VC:MP's wiki: http://famp.ru/wiki

This wiki covers everything related to VC:MP, so refer to it before posting any questions.

Wiki discussion thread: http://forum.vicecitymultiplayer.com/index.php?topic=1689.0

VC:MP's wiki: http://famp.ru/wiki

This wiki covers everything related to VC:MP, so refer to it before posting any questions.

Wiki discussion thread: http://forum.vicecitymultiplayer.com/index.php?topic=1689.0

They sure are having fun.

Pawn Supporting Application
PSA is an external application, extending Pawn's functionality. It communicates with Pawn through text files, allowing PSA to perform a variety of actions normally unavaliable in Pawn. You can think of PSA as a plugin, only external.

Currently it allows to make a fully-functional IRC echo and SQL data storage.


Download
Download the latest PSA at http://famp.ru/files/PSA.rar
The archive includes:
1) readme.txt - Help file.
2) psa.exe - PSA executable.
3) psa.cfg - PSA configuration.
4) echo.pwn - Blank script.
5) MySQL.dll - MySQL library.

Installation
1. Put the appropriate functions in your script. You can either take them from psa.pwn, base your script on psa.pwn or use psa.pwn as a filterscript.
Here are the key Pawn functions:
* PPSAtimer() // PSA timer for reading things from files.
* SetTimer("PSAtimer",100,1) // PSA timer activation.
* SendToIRC(str[]) // PSA function for sending things to IRC.
* PerformSQLquery(str[]) // PSA function for performing queries (which do not return values).
* PerformSQLquerySelect(qid[], str[]) // PSA function for performing "select" queries.
* OnQueryResult(qid[], str[]) // PSA event which gets called when "select" query returned a value. qid is the one you specified for PerformSQLquerySelect.
2. Put psa.exe, psa.cfg and MySql.Data.dll in your server's root dir (where your vcmp-svr.exe is).
3. Edit psa.cfg with your IRC/SQL settings.
4. Launch psa.exe.

Known issues
1. Requires .NET Framework 3.0 on the server machine to run.
2. As a consequence of the above, works with Windows server only.
3. IRC's quit message (if you close psa.exe) is "connection reset by peer".

Feedback
If you have questions/suggestions, post them here.

Version History
=== 0.20 === 24.04.10
Features:
1) Performing SQL queries.
2) Required framework version is now 3.0 (instead of 3.5).
Fixes:
1) Fixed high CPU usage.

=== 0.10 === 09.02.10
Features:
1) Sending messages to IRC.
2) Receiving messages from IRC.

VC:MP's wiki: http://famp.ru/wiki

The wiki covers everything related to VC:MP, so refer to it before posting any questions.



There're some missing info there though, so anyone with a spare hour and some wiki editing skills is welcome to help.

Me again. The previous thread was locked (for no apparent reason), so I had to start a new one.

I'm almost done making my script, which 100% dublicates MTA 0.5 mode. Yet I'm confused about few other things, which do not let me finish:
1. Why are there so many "system messages"? Kills and joins/parts take two lines of code to be put into a mode, yet you can't get rid of them (or change them) if you need to.
2. If there's no easy way of making chat scrolling, at least make it wider so that most of the messages don't take two lines. Some extra chat lines would be nice too.
3. How come SetCameraPos can't be used for players separately (addressing them by playerid)? MTA had the camera moving from spawn to spawn but there's no way to do that in VC-MP.
4. Many functions simply don't work (SendDeathMessage, SetPlayerDrunk, SetTimer, SetPlayerMarker, SetPlayerColor etc., with the last two even causing crashes). Yes, I know that they take much time to make, but at least remove them from the .inc, since such "placeholders" are not good at all.
Speaking of inoperative functions, I need at least SetTimer for making sailor regeneration an SetPlayerColor for custom class colors. How come nobody noticed that such generic functions do not work?
5. Having a simple function for outputting a text on the screen (like you do it at the spawn screen) would be nice too.
6. Remove or toggle headshots. They look reasonable when using m4/m60, but blowing the head off with just a colt/tec9...
7. Having an "ammount" parameter in AddStaticPickup would be nice. Or, at least, lower the ammounts to the ones from MTA (50 molotovs from a single pickup? jeez).
8. And I just recently noticed that melee weapons' hits are almost desynced. I hit a standing still guy with a bat 10 times and his hp reduced just once.

I'm still offering my help with readmes/testing/site/whatnot if it helps to fix the things mentioned above sooner.

Ok, I seem to be totally missing the point here. There're just too many things I can't understand and yet nobody ever bothered to ask about them (at least where I could find it). Here's a list:
1. Why www.vicecitymultiplayer.com doesn't link to the forum? Are people supposed to locate it via Google?
2. Why www.vicecitymultiplayer.com doesn't have any links to vc-mp's pawno kit either? Yes, I was able to find it on the forum, but I don't think that's an appropriate method of distribution.
3. Three downloads of THE SAME version for both the client and the server?   Seriously, you should pick the latest or something.
4. No "gamemodes" folder in the win server? Is that some kind of oppression against Windows users?
5. How come nobody bothered to fix "access violation" pop-ups in Vista/Win7? Even sa-mp did. Yes, I've read about setting compatibility to 98/me (please note that the thread dates back to 2007), but it resets my VC settings to default (both video and controller). Running vc-mp without compatibility makes everything fine again (except for the pop-ups that's it).
6. No cyrillic letters in the chat? Come on, you just have to tick a box for extra input symbols there.
7. No /changemode command? Come on! Do I have to change the config and restart the server each time I need to switch to another mode?
8. Spawn screen behaves rather awkwardly, sometimes deciding the fire button itself. It doesn't seem to like LMB, but it prefers jump button instead (which is Num 0 for me).
9. What's the big plan about using "/c command" instead of just "/command"? That's not even convinient.
10. And why are all the readmes and FAQs placed on the forum rather then in the client installation?

Any answers are much appreciated.