Over the past few days, i've been loosing track on what resources i was working towards and so on. Recently, Dennis sent me his Trello page to his community and I decided to use the same website to manage the project.

Link: https://trello.com/b/iP1Ryw6O/sourcemod

This page is updated daily (or hourly, actually) so you can get an idea on what we're currently up to in terms of progress.


That's all for now ;)

For a few days, me and DLmass has been tryign to figure out what we're going to use as a map. We tried a few things during development and nothing would fit. We tried our old map (which is below) but, that was too square in our favor :P

Here's the old map, in it's glory state:
http://puu.sh/gFH5K/ebd52b0fe2.png

Aaaand here's the new one:
http://puu.sh/gOVxZ/bdf8fdd292.png

Similar, but lot different, right? This is what we expect players to see in the next few weeks of development in SourceMod's Network.

Hopefully when my net's sorted out, i'll be able to start live streaming to provide players a little sneak peak of what we're currently working on and how things look. This'll probably a once to twice a week thing, so don't expect us to live stream every day (unless you're in our skype calls or teamviewer meetings :D)

It's not going to be long before we start alpha testing things and allowing a limited amount of people in to test features and give us feedback on what could be changed. We're expecting to start these in the next 2 or 3 weeks with the current progress we're going at.

There will be an application (either on the group forum or on our website when that's online) which players can apply to. A limited amount of people (probably about 20, excluding devs and mappers) will be allowed in.

If you want your place, you better be fast at writing up an application.


Well, that's all for now. Enjoy the previews n stuff ;)

~Jack

So over the past week, me and DLmass has been working non-stop on SourceMod in terms of modeling, mapping and scripting. At the moment, we've got a "playable" gamemode (and by playable, being able to spawn and etc) to do our testing with the new roads and buildings that's being designed by DLmass.

[25/03/2015 - Jack - Rev: 10]

• [Source-Characters] Updated to use the UI resource for the window and etc.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Updated to use the UI resource for the window and etc.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Updated the system to not show the login screen for those logged in when system restarts.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Did some cleaning up.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Fixed a few bugs with the banning system which resulted in bans not being removed.
  
• [Source-Core] Updated to not remove everyone's data when the system goes offline.
  
• [Source-World] Started some work on the roads for the map along with DLmass.
  
• [Source-Characters] Characters now load properly from the database - still need to code the play button
  
• [Source-Characters] Did some more work on the Character Editor along with a few bug fixes for it

[23/03/2015 - Jack - Rev: 8]

• [Source-Core] Fixed a few features.
  
• [Source-Characters] Coded the basics of the Character menu.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Finished rest of the register stages and register UI.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Finished rest of the login stages.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Added expiry option on account bans.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Fixed ban system on accounts.

[20/03/2015 - Jack - Rev: 7 or less (lost track)]

• [Source-World] Fixed a bug in Source-World that caused desync between vehicles. (REVERTED)
  
• [Source-Logs] Created to finally shut up the exports.
  
• [Source-Misc] Created and added needed functions.
  
• [Source-Accounts] Started work on Accounts (Login)
  
• [Source-Accounts] Fixed a bug in the color render of the status label (Cheers JT)

Either today or tomorrow, we'll be releasing a timelapse video of the work that we did yesterday over a span of 2 hours (would've been longer if OBS didn't crash (Bad OBS!!)). This will give you a peek of what we're currently doing in terms of our gamemode.

(Don't expect much, it's an empty map haha).

~Jack - DLmass

After a nice long break and experimenting with other ideas I had, i've finally returned. Since i've been away, i've been doing a few changes to SourceMode and making a few decisions on what we should do with the project (which is below).

The new plan is to restart the SourceMod project by making the files private for our server (until we leave MTA or something) and rebuilding the entire infrastucture. This means that we now have a new chance to create any features that we wanted in the previous feature that we never got chance to do.

More information and teasers can be found on the main page of the Steam group.

Because of the new plan, we've now released the old SourceMode files to the public (which can also be found on the main page).

The gamemode will no longer be updated or supported by us because we're already working on the new one and we want to focus all our time and effort into the new infrastucture we're designing.

Well, that's pretty much it for now. Have fun!

So today, I decided to clean out the tower of the computer we're currently running the server on. Took everything out, blasted the dust out with a compressor and put everything back in.

But, i ran into an issue... One of the splitters i'm using for the GPU has started corroding / burning. Because of this, the server will be running sluggish during the weekend.

For those experiencing issues such as server lag, sorry, but can't do nothing about it until the replacement part has arrived.

This entire week has been focused on fetching in some important features such as personal vehicles, eye-candy effects and the way we're doing the gameplay. PLEASE REMEMBER that these features can change in the future as we're still in beta.

Changelog - [17/11/2014 -> 21/11/2014]
[Add] Players can now use their own personal vehicles. Players who attend the server during the beta will receive a free infernus to keep. (Jack)
[Add] Players can now buy weapons at their local ammunation stores. (Jack)
[Add] Players can now idle on both boats for money, rather than the main one. (Jack)
[Add] Players will be "faded out" when they die. (Jack)
[Add] Vehicles being spawned in/out will be faded in/out. (Jack)

[Fix] Players can't register the same name more than once. (Jack)
[Fix] Player's data is forced-save every 10 minutes to reduce the risk of lost data on server crashes. (Jack)
[Fix] Player no longer receives the wrong weapon when purchasing ammo at ammunation. (Jack)
[Fix] Player's bank balance is now caching properly. (Jack)
[Fix] Player's vehicles are now damage proof in greenzones. (Jack)
[Fix] Player's can no longer be stealth killed in greenzones. (Jack)
[Fix] Player's vehicle mods weren't saving properly. (Jack)

[Update] Player's cached account data is now automatically released after 15 minutes after the player has quit / loggedout. (Jack)
[Update] Player's can no longer "double-account" to duplicate money, weapons and etc. (Jack)
[Update] Player's no longer get stuck at the hospital because of idlers. (Jack)
[Update] Player's vehicles are now deleted in a cool "fadeout" effect. (Jack)
[Update] Player's vehicle paintjob and colors are now saving. (Jack)
[Update] Some of the player's actions are now logged. (Jack)

LOTS! Lots more! Within the next changelog, we'll be introducing some activities for players to do (rather than killing each other all day) such as missions, pot and etc.

Have a suggestion? Tell us in a response!

~Jack - Full Theft Auto | Lead Developer