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Just a quick hint: when writing new client-side scripts in Lua/JS (C# already has the Players list doing exactly this), you can loop through players by using the GET_ACTIVE_PLAYERS native. See below for an example of before/after: Before… After… This should be a bit more performant than 256 native invocations, even if no player slot […]

We’ll be writing some more documentation on this soon, but the latest server version (combined with the canary client at this time – no prod yet!) supports presenting Adaptive Cards to clients during deferrals. Here’s a quick code sample: —

In GTA/RAGE games, you’ll often encounter native functions either taking or returning a Jenkins one-at-a-time hash, like the ones returned by GET_HASH_KEY. Traditionally, code would have had to either hardcode hashes (like -1044093321), or use GET_HASH_KEY directly (like GetHashKey(“a_m_y_skater_01”)). This would have lead to either less readability and maintainability, or having to wait for a […]

In a recent commit to the canary branch, we’ve added support for embedding standard emoji in nearly all cases where text is rendered by Scaleform GFx. This post details a bit of the effort that went on behind this, and where future changes may be headed. Where does GTA use Scaleform GFx? You might already […]