Coding info
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Introduction
This page has information which would be useful for anyone who is doing coding for MTA SA.
Projects explained
- Client - Core: Typically UI elements like main menu etc and isn't ever unloaded.
- Client - Deathmatch: Where MTA makes all it's functions and events do stuff.
- Client - Game SA: Low level stuff which is mainly function calls to the game so each element will have a game_sa class like Vehicle, Ped, Object etc.
- Client - GUI: It's just wrappers to CEGUI, you need not touch.
- Client - Launch: Is the MTA executable which loads loader, you need not touch.
- Client - Loader: You need not touch the loader either.
- Client - Multiplayer SA: Hooks, code modification and that sort of low level things that lets us work.
- Server - Core: Cazomino05: "I genuinely don't really know why we have server core."
- Server - Dbconmy: Stuff to do with the db* functions, you need not touch.
- Server - Deathmatch: All the server logic and storage classes for elements as well as Lua stuff.
- Server - Launcher: Just an executable to load all the DLLs we need.
- Shared - XML Module: XML module is just tinyxml and some high level wrapper functions for stuff we need.
- Dependencies: Has a load of 3rd party code, modules like sqlite, curl, lua, ehs, etc.
- CEGUI: Crazy Eddie's GUI system is a graphical user interface C++ library.
Simplification of data types
MTA has some type definitions you can use (Can be found in Shared/sdk/SharedUtil.h)
- ulong = unsigned long
- uint = unsigned int
- ushort = unsigned short
- uchar = unsigned char
- uint64 = unsigned long long
- uint32 = unsigned int
- uint16 = unsigned short
- uint8 = unsigned char
- int64 = signed long long
- int32 = signed int
- int16 = signed short
- int8 = signed char
- BYTE = unsigned char
- WORD = unsigned short
- DWORD = unsigned long
- FLOAT = float