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Cog Coding Help with a very badly needed Project...
2001-02-25, 5:33 AM #1
Ive been trying to do this for days with no success at all. Here is the code I am working with.

personinview = FirstThingInView(player, 179, 0x1, 0x404);
healthwise = GetPlayerHealth(personinview);
PrintInt(healthwise);

I basically only want it to return a proper value for another person in game to get the OTHER players health. Ive tried variations and I just cant do it. I have tried GetThingHealth instead of GetPlayerHealth, just about everything, if I could have your thoughts Id greatly appriciate it.

Affirmation_Grp
2001-02-25, 5:36 AM #2
Oh, It Does return one thing, -1 for not in view and 0 for when the other person is. But I cant get it to come back with their real health.
2001-02-25, 7:30 AM #3
Well, first of all change it back to GetThingHealth(); and second, it probably isn't finding a a target. You should add this:

if (personinview == -1) Return;

before that other stuff. Another thing you may want to do is put this in a pulse so it is constantly looking for a target.

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2001-02-25, 8:29 AM #4
sorry, It actually is in a pulse, but is it possible to return a health value of another person in the game like a value 96?

I dont know the code [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] or how to arrange it....
2001-02-25, 10:32 AM #5
Oh, and it defenitely finds the target, because I have it checking something else and that part Defenietly works, It just wont return me a value for the other guys health .... :\
2001-02-26, 2:21 PM #6
FirstThingInView is not right.
(player, FOV, *distance*, charFlag)
Your code only checks for 1 jku, which is pretty close to player.

Check for parenthesis either in http://www.code-alliance.com/~editors/jediknight/docs/jk_specs/jkspecs.htm or at http://millennium.massassi.net/cogverb/

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http://millennium.massassi.net/ - Millennium
2001-02-27, 4:57 AM #7
Ok, if the FirstThingInView is set up to only view one player, (or not set up to check for the other players health), then what is the best way to do that?

I found this NextThingInView(); verb in one of the archives you sent me, should I possibly try using this?

I tested this with only one other player in the game, I ... think ... it should've worked either way but I don't know ;\
2001-02-27, 5:56 PM #8
You can refer the force_throw.cog for the reticle coding, which gets players in front of you, this time, not the reticle but report the health. Get this in the pulse message.

Code: 
pot = FirstThingInView(player, 180, 10, 0x404);

while(pot != -1)
{
   if( (pot != player) && (HasLOS(player, pot) )
   {
      dot = ThingViewDot(player, pot);
 
      if(dot > maxDot)
      {
         victim = pot;
         maxDot = dot;
      }
   }

   pot = NextThingInView();
}

vit = GetThingHealth(victim);
//PrintInt(vit);


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http://millennium.massassi.net/ - Millennium
2001-02-28, 3:30 AM #9
Thank you, I think thats just the information I was looking for when I came here...(More or less an example of a working FirstThingInView)


Thanks =P

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