My opinions on the recent 0.3.8 cancellation

Let's get right into this, the cancellation of 0.3.8 was very disappointing as we were all excited to see the outcome of future RC's especially the textdraw system revamp. This post isn't a plea to get 0.3.8, it's a post of appreciation and to cast my opinions on your thoughts Kalcor.


Objects and Skins discussion

Let's put it this way, many people didn't know how to model and since you announced the ability to download server sided models A LOT of people started to learn how to model taking baby steps, some even hiring modellers. It takes time for people to produce decent models, it wasn't going to be done in a matter of months from the RC being announced, but I can guarantee a lot of models will be produced. People had already started producing and posting their models publicly and creating websites for sharing models such as Southclaws' website https://samp-objects.com/ and mschnitzer website https://samp-models.net/. Myself personally I already knew how to model, I was starting to learn how to use animated textures with RWAnimate and 2DFX lighting to go above and beyond with models for sa-mp. Big servers were gathering the best modders they could find to create skins and mods for their servers such as LS-RP, RC-RP and my server BA-RP has a modelling team of 12.

Ofcourse if you and matite would have produced more models because you two are used to this, you both slammed hundreds of models in one single update; but if this project would have continued many others would of mastered modelling for SA and would of produced models non stop. And I can only say 60% of people don't show their work on sa-mp forums they show their work within their own communities.

Slighly larger and more professional servers

I know for a fine fact LS-RP, RC-RP, niCe's server and BA-RP will all be using the 0.3.7-DL update rather than the main update you will release; which will be a little awkward right forgive me if I'm wrong and don't completely understand how all this will work but wouldn't it be preferred most servers using the main update? especially the "official" servers.


LS-RP had produced over 40 skins I believe, not seen what models they were working on or releasing onto the server.
RC-RP had produced over 60 skins by 2 men, and objects being created for drug systems and all.
We, at BA-RP had produced over 50 skins and had another 25 in development. We also had 30+ objects planned for the future to go with drug systems, police lighting, exterior + interior objects, and I could go on with the amount of ideas we had.
Italy Mafia had a lot in the works as I've been told and apparently so did Horizon Gaming

and the countless efforts by the smaller servers need to be recognised to, I'm not going to include them in this topic as I don't follow the development of many servers but feel free to discuss it yourselfs in the topic.

Here's a few objects alot of people had produced for 0.3.8




(this was in the process of being made enter able with a nice interior)



this images could go on, who knows what everyone else had in the works?

Textdraws & Sprites
This was by far my most favorite part of 0.3.8, the ability to add custom sprites created inevitable opportunities including new GUI's, features, in-game mini games etc..

I personally was too excited for the text draw revamp, and I know A LOT of others were too I was checking the forum everyday for that RC5 release.

I've seen some pretty sick things created with this so far and I'll show some peoples work here too










Most importantly let's not forget some people have started servers completely based on the 0.3.8 update and the expected new features to arrive in 0.3.8 such as Vice City Roleplay by Reyo and Dignity, zombie vice city, liberty city,