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Player variables: help please

by Tyler Pfaff · in Technical Issues · 10/11/2004 (7:28 am) · 4 replies

I'm having some difficulty getting player variables to set correctly. We are working on a networked FPS game for a class project and I've added a taunt variable to the playerbody datablock in player.cs. This variable rises when a player kills someone and performs a taunt.

I'm currently updating the variable like so:

%sourceClient.player.TauntBonusUp();
%this.player.TauntBonusDown();

Those calls come towards the end of the OnDeath() in game.cs. The actual functions reside in player.cs and look like this:


function Player::TauntBonusUp(%this)
{
%taunttemp = %this.getDataBlock().TauntBonus;
if( %taunttemp < 5)
{
%this.getDataBlock().TauntBonus = %taunttemp + 1;
}
}


function Player::TauntBonusDown(%this)
{
%tauntdown = %this.getDataBlock().TauntBonus;
if( %tauntdown >= 1)
{
%this.getDataBlock().TauntBonus = %tauntdown - 1;
}
}

The problem is that all players somehow end up sharing the same TauntBonus. So, any time a player kills and celebrates, all players' TauntBonus variable rises. Can someone tell me how to make it so that only the person who got the kill receives the bonus?

Thanks
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Torque Owner Davide Archetti
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#1
10/11/2004 (8:08 am)
You cannot (shouldn't) modify the datablock since it is shared across all the players and it isn't updated, that is if you modify it server side, you aren't modifying it also client side and vice versa. You have to add and modify a variable in the player instance, not in its datablock.
You know, somewhere in your code you have
%player = new Player()
    {
     dataBlock = BattleArmorCmdDefault;
     client = %this;
    };

To add a new variable that is assigned only to that player, just do something like
%player.TauntBonus = 1;
...
%player.TauntBonus += 1;
You don't need to declare the variable somewhere, just define it and then use it

Torque Owner Tyler Pfaff
#2
10/11/2004 (9:53 am)
Yep, that fixed it. Thanks for the help. Ha, I just wish I'd asked sooner, I've been working on this for awhile now.

Brandon Beauchene
#3
03/03/2005 (1:05 am)
I appologize in advance for A) bringing back an old topic, B) posting a quesiton in someone elses thread ;)

I am having a similiar issue although it involves guiTextCtrl's variable field. I have added some stat variables to the players (they appear in the players description in the tree(); box) but i dont know what to use in the varible box to get them to update.
I have gone into the tree and gotten the id of my character and the boxes display the appropriate info when i use

1524.int

but not always is it the same. ive tried
%sourceClient.player.int
%sourceClient.int
%client.int
%client.player.int
%player.int

and none work. What is the actual variable i need to use to access each individual characters int variable for use in the text control?

Associate Manoel Neto
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#4
03/04/2005 (9:21 am)
The guiTextCtrl will not keep monitoring the variable for changes, I think. It will only read the variable's content upon intialization.

To get it updating forever, you can use a schedule that calls setText() every 64 milliseconds or so.