Creating your first resource

Prerequisites

You will need to have installed the Slipe CLI in order to compile your resources. If you have not done so please follow the instructions in Getting started

Creating a resource

After installing the CLI tool in the previous step you are now ready to start working on your first resource.

  • Navigate to your resources folder in your MTA server directory
  • Open a command prompt
  • Run slipe new <resourceName>

Afterwards a directory with the name you entered will be created.
This directory will contain a Visual Studio Solution (.sln file). Once you open this file you will encounter two projects, ServerSide and ClientSide. These are compiled to server scripts and client scripts respectively.

Compiling a resource

A resource can be compiled in one of several ways, if you're not using Visual Studio this will require using the command line.

Visual Studio

When you open your solution (.sln file) in Visual Studio it contains 2 projects. ServerSide and ClientSide, both of these projects will compile to Lua when you build them using Visual Studio's build action.
Furthermore, starting the project will attempt to restart the resource on your MTA server (if it is already running).

Commandline

In order to compile from the command line, use the slipe compile command.