ScriptingChanges

This page shows information about significant changes in the scripting interface for previous versions of GTAC.

Server 1.4.0 and newer

Renamed gta.createCivilian to gta.createPed
Renamed vehicle.carLock to vehicle.lockedStatus

Client 1.4.0 and newer

Renamed gta.createCivilian to gta.createPed.
Renamed gta.currentWeather to gta.weather
Renamed currentWeather to gta.weather for IV
Renamed forceWeather to gta.forceWeather for IV
Renamed setWindSpeed to gta.setWindSpeed for IV
Renamed vehicle.carWanderRandomly to vehicle.wanderRandomly
Updated vehicle.driveTo to take a Vec3 instead of 3 floats
Updated vehicle.flyTo to take a Vec3 instead of 3 floats
Updated gta.findGroundZ to take a Vec2 instead of 2 floats
Updated gta.findRoofZ to take a Vec3 instead of 3 floats
Updated int element.syncer to be Client element.syncer
Updated element.setSyncer to take a Client object
Added entity.model as alias for entity.modelIndex
Renamed ped.setWeaponAmmunition to ped.setWeaponSlotAmmunition
Renamed ped.getWeaponAmmunition to ped.getWeaponSlotAmmunition
Renamed ped.setWeaponClipAmmunition to ped.setWeaponSlotClipAmmunition
Renamed ped.getWeaponClipAmmunition to ped.getWeaponSlotClipAmmunition
Renamed ped.setWeaponAmmunitionForWeaponId to ped.setWeaponAmmunition
Renamed ped.getWeaponAmmunitionForWeaponId to ped.getWeaponAmmunition
Renamed ped.setWeaponClipAmmunitionForWeaponId to ped.setWeaponClipAmmunition
Renamed ped.getWeaponClipAmmunitionForWeaponId to ped.getWeaponClipAmmunition
Renamed vehicle.carLock to vehicle.lockedStatus
Renamed gta.findGroundZForCoord to gta.findGroundZCoordinate
Renamed event OnWastePed to OnPedWastedFromAttackerClient
Added int vehicle.lightsStatus to go with existing bool vehicle.lights

Client/Server 1.3.0 and newer

Element type ELEMENT_CIVILIAN was removed. Use ELEMENT_PED instead.

Client/Server 1.3.0 and newer

The setErrorMode function was removed from scripting.

Client 1.1.1 and newer

The game namespace was removed from all names that used it, for both server-side and client-side functionality, as listed below.

New Name	Old Name
addMovingParticleEffect	game.addMovingParticleEffect
addParticleEffect	game.addParticleEffect
addToWorld	game.addToWorld
aspectRatio	game.aspectRatio
cameraInterior	game.cameraInterior
cameraTarget	game.cameraTarget
createBlipAttachedTo	game.createBlipAttachedTo
createBlip	game.createBlip
createBuilding	game.createBuilding
createCivilian	game.createCivilian
createEffect	game.createEffect
createElement	game.createElement
createObject	game.createObject
createPickup	game.createPickup
createPlayer	game.createPlayer
createRenderTarget	game.createRenderTarget
createSingleParticle	game.createSingleParticle
createSphere	game.createSphere
createVehicle	game.createVehicle
drawRectangle	game.drawRectangle
fadeCamera	game.fadeCamera
findGroundZForCoord	game.findGroundZForCoord
game	game.game
getPeds	game.getPeds
getRandomSkin	game.getRandomSkin
getScreenFromWorldPosition	game.getScreenFromWorldPosition
getVehicles	game.getVehicles
getWorldFromScreenPosition	game.getWorldFromScreenPosition
height	game.height
messages.addJumpQ	game.messages.addJumpQ
messages.clear	game.messages.clear
removeFromWorld	game.removeFromWorld
restoreCamera	game.restoreCamera
rwRenderStateSet	game.rwRenderStateSet
setCameraLookAt	game.setCameraLookAt
setCameraLookAtEntity	game.setCameraLookAtEntity
setCameraTarget	game.setCameraTarget
setCiviliansEnabled	game.setCiviliansEnabled
setEffect	game.setEffect
setMainHUDEnabled	game.setMainHUDEnabled
setRenderTarget	game.setRenderTarget
setTrafficEnabled	game.setTrafficEnabled
time.hour	game.time.hour
time.minute	game.time.minute
time.second	game.time.second
weather.current	game.weather.current
weather.force	game.weather.force
weather.forceSnowing	game.weather.forceSnowing
weather.snowing	game.weather.snowing
width	game.width

Client 1.0.19 and newer

The game namespace was removed from all names that used it, for both server-side and client-side functionality, as listed below.

New Name	Old Name
createBlipAttachedTo	game.createBlipAttachedTo
createEffect	game.createEffect
createElement	game.createElement
createVehicle	game.createVehicle
world	game.getWorld
fadeCamera	game.fadeCamera