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Running an array to find walkplayers?
2002-02-27, 8:34 AM #1
To this day I still don't understand arrays. But, I figured there are tons of teleporter cogs out there, and all of them require ghost positions. So I thought to myself, "Self, I bet there's a way to find all of the walkplayers on any given level." So I figured an array would work. I guess I could just copy/paste an array and then modify it, but if they could be explained, I'd be much better off. Oh, any ideas (though I have my own) for capturing walkplayers would be great!

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-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

-Tazz
-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

Tazz
2002-02-27, 9:19 AM #2
If you youve read the tutorials on arrays, and still dont get it, I wont bother explaining them. BUT, an array would be able to find players...

For(I=0;I<=Getthingtemplatecount(JKgetlocalplayer());I=I+1) { Player_0 = I; }

That will build an 'array' if Ints,

Player_0, Player_1, Player_2, and on and on, for however many walkplayers there are in the level.

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Success is the inverse relationship between effort, gain, and loss.

JK editing resources.

[This message has been edited by GBK (edited February 27, 2002).]
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2002-02-27, 9:44 AM #3
sabermaster's datamaster has a tutorial on arrays that could help, it took me a long time to understand jk arrays i wish i had that resource when i tried figuring them out
roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and I am too!
2002-02-27, 2:22 PM #4
GBK,

It would have to be an array of ints or can it be an array of things? Then I could just teleport the person randomly to one of the things.

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-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

-Tazz
-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

Tazz
2002-02-27, 4:52 PM #5
A thing IS an int.

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Success is the inverse relationship between effort, gain, and loss.

JK editing resources.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2002-02-27, 5:16 PM #6
Here's a snippet from Rbots. It searches through all 'things' in a level looking for walkplayers. It then creates ghost objects at those places. Rbots uses this to determine where to spawn bots.

Code: 
// Create respawn locations from walkplayers
maxthings = GetThingCount();
maxrespawn=0;
for (index=0;index<maxthings;index=index+1)
{
  if (GetThingTemplate(index) ==walkplayer_template)
  {
    respawn00[maxrespawn]=CreateThing(ghost_template,index);
    maxrespawn=maxrespawn+1;
  }
}


Raynar


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... the Jedi I admire the most, met up with Darth Maul, now he's toast ...
Rbots - a project to develop a working Bot for Jedi Knight... download the latest development version here
Pagewizard_YKS: "making your own lightsaber doesn't make you a nerd... "
Raynar - the man with a 10.75" ePenis
2002-02-27, 9:28 PM #7
Arrays in cog are not real arrays. The array index is simply the offset from the "array name" variable. For instance, if our array is:

thing Tazz
thing GBK
thing Han5678
thing Raynar

Tazz[1] is GBK. GBK[2] is Raynar.
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2002-02-27, 11:14 PM #8
Raynar, --Mind if I swipe that code from you for a simple teleporter?

-Tazz
-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

Tazz
2002-02-28, 5:39 AM #9
Fardreamer - thats been known for some time. But only by a few... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

Snippets of a recent cog of mine:


Code: 
...
 
Flex Move_easy=1.0
Flex Move_med=2.0
Flex Move_hard=4.
 
...
 
Move = Move_easy[Getdifficulty()];


A simple way to perform an operation, and simplifies the symbols section.

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Success is the inverse relationship between effort, gain, and loss.

JK editing resources.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2002-02-28, 9:06 AM #10
Geh, I'd much rather have my Thing0 - Thing9 thank you very much. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]
-Hell Raiser
2002-02-28, 1:37 PM #11
Tazz: you are welcome to use the code for whatever you like. In fact all the Rbots code is public domain - anyone can use any of it for whatever purpose they want.

Raynar


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... the Jedi I admire the most, met up with Darth Maul, now he's toast ...
Rbots - a project to develop a working Bot for Jedi Knight... download the latest development version here
Pagewizard_YKS: "making your own lightsaber doesn't make you a nerd... "
Raynar - the man with a 10.75" ePenis

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