Awful news about SA:MP

[Louis_Keyl]

Due to an unfortunate turn of events, shortly after the release of 0.3c, we are having to re-release the SA-MP 0.3c client. Many of the custom models, like the stunting primitives, that were added to SA-MP 0.3c during the development phase have been removed.

This update is not mandatory but it should be considered high priority for server owners and people who are designing 'Game Modes' around 0.3c. The objects added to the initial release won't be suitable for use on most servers, since they're being phased out in this client update.

All of the other features added to 0.3c like: number plates, vehicle control, scripting functions, attached objects, particles etc. are all still part of 0.3c.

Extended explanation:

The person who contributed some of the new models, like the stunting objects in the SAMP.img, left the SA-MP beta team under ambiguous circumstances shortly after 0.3c was released. SA-MP doesn't have the time, or resources, to deal with people who contribute to the project without making their intentions or motivations clear. It has been decided that the best way to deal with this problem is to simply remove this persons contributions from the SA-MP distribution - and eliminate any long-term problems that it might cause.

I understand this move is going to disappoint a lot of server owners who have already been working on scripts to take advantage of the content that was added to 0.3c during the testing phase. It is also disappointing to us in the team as we had dedicated several weeks of development time to new features surrounding the new objects. Unfortunately, the SA-MP team does not have complete control over everything that happens with this mod. We can only take steps to correct problems and try to prevent them from happening in the future. Accepting contributions to the project from external sources has been extremely rare throughout most of the development - as we have always recognised the risk of doing so.

We will attempt to make up for this disappointing turn of events with some new content in the next version of SA-MP (0.3d) - which hopefully won't take too long to be available.

http://forum.sa-mp.com/showthread.php?t=205568

This is awful and a pain in the ass for all of us (scripters) who could have done Incredibly and AWESOME things...


   

[Chase]

Yeah... I'm not gonna get the objects removed by downloading this shit... Just because someone in the SAMP team went emo...

[TheRock]

Yay, less lag for me.

[Nexxt]

Hilarious .... typically SA:MP.

[Murt]

Boring to hear actually.

[Pandalink]

Yeah... I'm not gonna get the objects removed by downloading this shit... Just because someone in the SAMP team went emo...

The guy who made them (the guy who left the team) wants them in, it was the decision of the SAMP team to remove them.
Something here has not been revealed yet.

[JayL]

Let me guess - that guy stole somebody's work, or did anything which would harm the image of SA:MP, the SA:MP team found it out but they don't wanna say it for obvious reasons.

[BlueFox]

Well, there are still hats and sunglasses in the game from single player from where you dress CJ up I think. So it's not to big of a loss to attaching items to your character.

[SafetyMoose]

Yeah... I'm not gonna get the objects removed by downloading this shit... Just because someone in the SAMP team went emo...

your gonna have to because if you don't update to the re-release it will most likely detect it as an invalid version. We should be greatfull that they give us such a great program for free and respect their decision to remove that aspect of the new version. they know whats best for SA:MP and im sure they would not remove this feature unless they had a good reason for it. Most likely they dont want to release the full reason why they removed it at this time.

[Nathan]

Now I mad.

[Louis_Keyl]

Well, there are still hats and sunglasses in the game from single player from where you dress CJ up I think. So it's not to big of a loss to attaching items to your character.

cannot be used in SA:MP

[Dutchy]

So far for my MDB office..

[MrFrancis]

Seriously?
I knew this was happening.

[Gnb_22]

How do like dem apples ? HAHAHA So will /glasses be removed ?

[[NP]Monte Montague]

Hilarious .... typically SA:MP.

Agreed.

your gonna have to because if you don't update to the re-release it will most likely detect it as an invalid version. We should be greatfull that they give us such a great program for free and respect their decision to remove that aspect of the new version. they know whats best for SA:MP and im sure they would not remove this feature unless they had a good reason for it. Most likely they dont want to release the full reason why they removed it at this time.

The decided to make it optional to update.