Creating a new player variable

#1 Please use code blocks it looks so much nicer.

#2 Sure.... if I knew how... test block

Nope that doesnt work

#3 If you look under the box where you type the text for your post, there is a link to a page explaining the markup codes you can use.

#4 It's [code.] [/code.] just take out the dots.

#5 Thanx...

player.h:

S32 mZone;

player.cc:

mZone = 1;

packUpdate():

stream->writeFloat(getEnergyLevel() / mDataBlock->maxEnergy,EnergyLevelBits);

stream->writeInt((S32)mZone,13); // HERE IS MY ZONE

return retMask;

unpackUpdate:

F32 energy = stream->readFloat(EnergyLevelBits) * mDataBlock->maxEnergy;
setEnergyLevel(energy);

S32 newZone = stream->readInt(13);
setZone(newZone);
}

Player.h:

void setZone(S32 newZone);
S32 getZone();

Player.cc:

void Player::setZone(S32 newZone)
{
mZone = newZone;
}

S32 Player::getZone()
{
return mZone;
}

ConsoleMethod( Player, setZone, void, 2, 2, "Sets the current zone.")
{
object->setZone((int)(argv[0]));
}

ConsoleMethod( Player, getZone, S32, 1, 1, "Gets the current zone.")
{
return object->getZone();
}

Is that better?

Is this set up properly? i don't think it is, since I can't seem to get it to work (1758 is the id tag of one of my aiPlayers)

1758.getZone(1758);
from the console

or:
1758.getZone();

#6 Ok.... I changed teh getZone min and max args to 2, that appeared to work... Now when I call

echo(1734.getZone());

it spits out 1 like it should...

I then call

1734.setZone(3);

and

echo(1734.getZone());

and it spits out something like 81244643....

EDIT:

I set my setZone min and max args to 3, since it appears to be how they are doing it elsewhere.... and changed my argv index to
argv[1]

EDIT:

Tried argv[2] as well.....

EDIT:

Tried removing the cast to an int....

#7 @Chris: Did you ever get this to work? If so, how did you do it? I am having a similar problem.

#8 Yes, I got it set up.

There are two ways of doing it. One is a server side script variable that isn't the way you want to do it for multiplayer... That involves declaring a script variable in the player.cs file in the scripts directory.

$myVariable = 1;

then you can access it by calling

%player.myVariable

OR to do it multiplayer safe you add the mVariable to the header file and initialize it in the .cc file. . . then you pack and unpack it (I followed the examples of other things that were being packed and unpacked)

This is done in the (un)packUpdate() functions . . . That basically syncronizes it over the network.

Then you need console methods to get and set the variable. Which is this:

void Player::setZone(S32 newZone)
{
mZone = newZone;
}

S32 Player::getZone()
{
return mZone;
}

ConsoleMethod( Player, setZone, void, 2, 2, "Sets the current zone.")
{
object->setZone((int)(argv[0]));
}

ConsoleMethod( Player, getZone, S32, 1, 1, "Gets the current zone.")
{
return object->getZone();
}

Though I cant remember if that was teh right arg value. . .

I used the script version, which worked very well for me, and since it is server side and I was usign it to trigger server side events like spawning AI, it was all I needed. My client never needs access to the variable so I didnt go the class route.. good luck to you.

#9 @Chris: Thanks. I need to create the variable to modify the jump impulse, so I can charge the jump (like spiderman 2), so I am pretty sure I need to do it in code. The thing is I seem to get everything done right and then when I jump the program crashes, with a "Bad world box!" error from sceneobject.cc. I didn't even touch that file! So idk. Thanks tho for your help and posting your code.

#10 Oh yeah, one more thing. I created the global varibale $currentJumpCharge in default.bind.cs. How do I access that in player.cs?

#11 Why did you place it in default.bind.cs ? Place it in Player.cs

#12 I put it in default.bind.cs because that is where i was doing all my work. I changed it to the player.cs editing the jump trigger, which seems to make more sense.