List of bugs and suggestions

[Murdock]

Before I went on holidays, I wrote a list of all bugs i had noticed while scripting my server.
Now that I'm back, I noticed not all of them have been fixed yet, thus I will post the remains of the list as follows;

Bugs:

• Setting weapon damage only seems to work for melee weapons (As stated in this topic)
• Setting flags for custom weapons like damage and range in the xml seem to change for both custom weapon and the original (logical) weapon
• Names of images inside texture files cannot be the same as a file inside another texture file, though maxorator said he was aware of this
• Joining a server that has low latency causes the client to reconnect 1 or 2 times before joining, together with the bug mentioned about the crash on disconnect it could take up to a minute to join a localhost server.
• When walking/driving on objects (ie. a bridge) the objects tend to disappear for less than a second, but long enough to make the player fall through it
• When placing objects on sea (near the Cortez yacht), the coordinates of players, pickups and objects tend to differ
• Sometimes deleted objects and pickups do not get deleted, instead the collision gets removed and the object becomes only visible from 1 angle
• The SetHandlingRule function for vehicles does not work with custom vehicles, thus making it harder to create a proper handling for them
• When a custom sound is playing while driving a vehicle, the sound will stop playing when the vehicle collides with another object
• When storing GUI references inside a table/array, iterating through them becomes impossible.
  Removing all references is only possible by setting the table to null.
• When changing the world of a player, often markers on the radar of the players in the previous world would not get deleted
• Using explosives on a custom object will make all players that are on the object sliding
• Strange behaviour involving pickups; after picked up the objects disappears but corona stays in place
• pickup.Respawn() does not seem to work and onPickupRespawn event does not get called
• Changes to sphere properties (radius/color etc) do not appear until its world is changed
• Browser: Sorting servers by version does not work
• Browser: When there are a lot of players the playerlist is not showing (as was the case in vicewar with 80 players)
• Custom objects disappear for the killed player during the wasted screen, if they die while standing on them
• After killing a player who had been frozen, the frozen state bugs out where the player can't walk but can still fire weapons
• Firetruck hose not synced
• Vehicle doors not synced
• Teleporting a player who is in a vehicle sometimes does not teleport the player but put the player on top of his vehicle

Suggestions:

• Setting gameplay options such as drive on water and stuntbike per player or world
• Function to make certain objects dynamic (allow gravity to affect the object), includes having its position/movement synced
• Setting weather and gravity per player or world (especially useful in RPGs where worlds are used for other buildings, we don't want rain in them)
• Function to toggle collision of an object per player
• Option to loop sounds (useful for sounds like alarms)
• Synced game counter to sync waves, traffic lights and radio stations
• Custom weapon IDs on player kill event
• A function like attachEntityToEntity, where entity can be vehicle, player or object
• A function to attach entity to player bone, as done in SAMP
• A function to hide a pickup for a specific player
• An option to toggle the taxi light of a vehicle
• An option to add or remove cuban exhaust flames to a vehicl
• Support multiple passengers in the Coach like in 0.3
• Custom animations support with player.SetAnim, just like with custom weapons
• All maxorator's vehicle loader features, like support for weapons on vehicles
• Since it's possible to use other walking styles using custom skins, a player.SetWalkingStyle function would be useful
• A function to get the position where the player's crosshair is aiming at
• RGB support for vehicle colors, settable during gameplay (I believe it's already supported in MVL)
• Setting marker type for players, vehicles and objects. (Radar blip, floating arrow above entity or both) This was added in LU as well.
• Client-side sound and timer functions
• Client-side functions to set position and alpha of objects and vehicles (useful for map editing)
• Client-side function to move an object or vehicle by mouse movement (useful to position object in map editing)
• An event for extinguishing fires with the firetruck would certainly make RPG servers better
• FastDL
• Custom bullet trail texture for custom weapons
• Synced and settable vehicle variations (vehicle+0x1A2) (opcode 0506 allows a combination of 2 variations to be set)
• Possibility for players to hijack vehicles or pull players out their car
• Flag to check if entity is in water
• Synced and settable vehicle light damage (vehicle+0x2B0) (sync required because lights can also break when ramming the vehicle)
• Flag to make a custom object pop tyres like the spikestrip objects in singleplayer
• Sync for other players peds being on fire, and an option to toggle it similar to the bleeding ped option
• An additional option to player immunities to make a player immune to headshots
• Client function that exposes the in-game GetGroundZCoord function
• Option to hide a player marker on radar
• When reconnecting to a server without the default VC map, you can see that the VC map can be shown or hidden dynamically. It would allow for more mapping possibilities if there was a reserved player World without the VC map

[NewK]

• Bikes reverse too fast after the custom vehicles update

This one's hilarious. The first time I found out about this was with a pizza boy, it was actually faster in reverse than normally   driving forward.

• A player can still be killed after applying all immunity flags

Yea this one's the most frustrating for me, since the anti-spawn kill system in the CTF server relies on it and it's basically useless without it :/

[DizzasTeR]

I totally agree on all the suggestions posted up there, I can't even tell which is the most important of all in those suggestions since all of them are important to take VCMP to a higher level. Nice list Murdock, hope the devs will get this for us soon.

[KAKAN]

Agree.

[Castagna]

In addition to Murdock's list I would like to attach a few bugs client and plugin related:

(highlighted the most urgent and critical requests)

• Objects added via AddObject aren't not being shown in spawn-screen.
• Sphere radius < 2 won't work
• Using custom RGB color classes via server.conf makes disappear all the vehicles for no reason
• Either -1 and 255 aren't applying FFA/DM classes via server.conf.

[KAKAN]

Hmm, I have never tried to add classes with server.conf, actually I don't have a server.conf file in my server AT ALL

[EK.IceFlake]

Hmm, I have never tried to add classes with server.conf, actually I don't have a server.conf file in my server AT ALL

Me too, I hate it

[Thijn]

@Castagna Are you talking about classes or vehicles? I'm confused.
If you mean classes, make sure you have an "a" attribute with a default value of 255 for Alpha.

[KAKAN]

I have tested the classes using server.conf, it doesn't harm my server

[DizzasTeR]

@Thijn, He is talking about classes ( skins ). In 0.3 applying team = 255 or -1 would make it free for all ( independent ). You can kill anyone, which is not working in 0.4

[Thijn]

@Thijn, He is talking about classes ( skins ). In 0.3 applying team = 255 or -1 would make it free for all ( independent ). You can kill anyone, which is not working in 0.4

I was talking about the first bold point.

[Castagna]

@Thijn I'm talking about the vehicles. Custom RGB in classes are working like a charm.

[maxorator]

@Thijn I'm talking about the vehicles. Custom RGB in classes are working like a charm.

RGB colours were never supported though. Which means the plugin fails to read them since it doesn't recognize the format, then obviously the vehicles are not created.

[KAKAN]

RGB colours are recognized, before some days when i was using ADM script, that time, custom RGB and vehicles were through server.conf file, and they were working like a charm, I never has any problems regarding to custom RGB classes from server.conf

[krystianoo]

..any update regarding all this?