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Calculating Offline Time

How would I calculate offline time? I mean how can I tell time, like in 2hrs a player would be unjailed even if he/she is offline. (I'm currently not concerned on the "setlevel2();") for when the players unjailed offline. But, I need a way to calculate time while offline. So it invokes something in 2hrs if the player is offline or not. And please explain the way simply. As timevar2 gets me confused.

Use timevar, so basically...
you set the time you want the player to get out

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client.jailrelease=timevar+(hours*720);

then

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if (client.jailrelease<timevar)
{
//release the player
}

I get 720 since timevar increments by 1 every 5 seconds
so 60*60/5 == 720

Edit: In case you might not fully understand timevar is just a variable that the server increments by 1 ever 5 seconds, so its forever going up. Therefore the way in which you can apply timevar is very straight forward. Timevar2 is a more accurate way of judging time(increments every .1 of a second, maybe faster lol but the basis is its a more accurate presentation of time) but I tend to avoid it when doing big time distance calculations as it just ends up giving you messy numbers. Hope this helped you.

Have fun :)

timevar2 is the one most people use because it's more accurate, as timevar increases by 1 every 5 seconds and timevar2 increases as fast as Graal runs, 1:1 ratio.

Why not just remove a person from jail when they log in, rather than while they are offline?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Switch (Post 1665285)

timevar2 is the one most people use because it's more accurate, as timevar increases by 1 every 5 seconds and timevar2 increases as fast as Graal runs, 1:1 ratio.

Explain more

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astram (Post 1665291)

Explain more

timevar2 on the serverside is basically a UNIX time stamp with millisecond precision, but with the milliseconds moved to the decimals. You could do something similar to this:

PHP Code:


		
			
player.clientr.jailReleaseTime = timevar2 + 3600; // release in an hour

And then just check periodically and whenever the player logs on:

PHP Code:


		
			
if (timevar2 >= player.clientr.jailReleaseTime)

  // release the player from jail/whatever

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astram (Post 1665199)

So it invokes something in 2hrs if the player is offline or not. And please explain the way simply. As timevar2 gets me confused.

timevar increases by 1 every 5 seconds
timevar2 increases by 1 every 1 second

With a little algebra, we can determine how much time has passed by setting a variable equal to a time variable, then later on, subtracting the variable you set from the time variable.

You can read and write some player variables even when the player is offline by creating a TServerPlayer object.

The 3 vars you are concerned with are "x", "y", and "levelname".

Here are some examples that might help you..

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// ex: getOfflinePlayerVar("Graal123456", "x"); 

// returns the player's x coordinate

function getOfflinePlayerVar(temp.account, temp.varname) {

  temp.pl = new TServerPlayer(@account);

  temp.rtn = makevar("pl." @ varname);

  pl.destroy();

  return rtn;

}



// ex: setOfflinePlayerVar("Graal123456", "x", 30); 

// sets the player's x coordinate to 30. 

// They will login at the new position.

function setOfflinePlayerVar(temp.account, temp.varname, temp.value) {

  temp.pl = new TServerPlayer(@account);

  makevar("pl." @ varname) = value;

  pl.saveaccount();

  pl.destroy();

}

e.
Depending on how your script works, you might not even need to use timevar or timevar2.
When you jail someone, schedule an event to release their account in however many seconds you wish...
then in the event:

PHP Code:


		
			
temp.pl = findplayer(acc);

if (pl == NULL)

  // edit offline

else

  // setlevel2

So does timevar2 go down on its own?

It increases automatically as time goes on.

Didn't you already make a thread about timevar, Astram?

To further clarify...

On the server-side timevar2 is the amount of seconds since the unix epoch (January 1st 1970).

On the client-side timevar2 is the amount of seconds the client has been on for.

I believe timevar is the same on both server-side and client-side, it's been forever since I've actually used it though.

I wish Stefan would enable timevar3 for non-G3D servers.

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Originally Posted by fowlplay4 (Post 1665434)

On the client-side timevar2 is the amount of seconds the client has been on for.

Except on Mac (and Linux?), where it's the number of seconds since the unix epoch, but may differ from the server's value due to a bad time setting on the client's computer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0PiX0 (Post 1665345)

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// ex: getOfflinePlayerVar("Graal123456", "x"); 

// returns the player's x coordinate

function getOfflinePlayerVar(temp.account, temp.varname) {

  temp.pl = new TServerPlayer(@account);

  temp.rtn = makevar("pl." @ varname);

  pl.destroy();

  return rtn;

}



// ex: setOfflinePlayerVar("Graal123456", "x", 30); 

// sets the player's x coordinate to 30. 

// They will login at the new position.

function setOfflinePlayerVar(temp.account, temp.varname, temp.value) {

  temp.pl = new TServerPlayer(@account);

  makevar("pl." @ varname) = value;

  pl.saveaccount();

  pl.destroy();

}

You should try to avoid makevar as much as possible

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pl.(@ varname) = value;

does the same thing, and doesn't make the object-orientation gods cry.

Quote:

Depending on how your script works, you might not even need to use timevar or timevar2.
When you jail someone, schedule an event to release their account in however many seconds you wish...
then in the event:

PHP Code:


		
			
temp.pl = findplayer(acc);

if (pl == NULL)

  // edit offline

else

  // setlevel2

It's best not to use events for stuff like this since they're lost on server restart, and just create another point of failure (e.g. if the script is updated and you introduce a bug, events could not be received/set, ...). Using events is only a good idea if you use it in conjunction with a "release on" time which is checked periodically and/or on login.

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Originally Posted by cbk1994 (Post 1665448)

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pl.(@ varname) = value;

does the same thing, and doesn't make the object-orientation gods cry.

No, it doesn't do the same thing.

PHP Code:


		
			
makevar("pl.clientr.subvar"); // works
pl.(@ "clientr.subvar"); // does not work

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbk1994 (Post 1665448)

Using events is only a good idea if you use it in conjunction with a "release on" time which is checked periodically and/or on login.

I agree with checking upon login as well to prevent any issues.

I made this quickly

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//#CLIENTSIDE

function onCreated() {

  client.blah = 0;

  onTimeOut();

}

function onTimeOut() {

  client.blah = timevar2;

  player.chat = client.blah;

  setTimer(0.05);

}

But, I can't seem to get it down to 0...

Edit:
I can't get on Graal but would this work.

PHP Code:


		
			
//#CLIENTSIDE

function onCreated() {

  client.timestart = client.blah;

  onTimeOut();

}

function onTimeOut() {

  client.blah = timevar2;

  player.chat = client.blah -= client.timestart;

  setTimer(0.05);

}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astram (Post 1665520)

But, I can't seem to get it down to 0...

Please read nearly every post in this thread. It's been said countless times that timevar2 is an auto-incrementing variable based on the amount of seconds since a specific time period.

If you just want a countdown do something like this:

PHP Code:


		
			
//#CLIENTSIDE

function onCreated() {

  this.ticks = 100;

  onTimeout();

}



function onCreated() {

  this.ticks--;

  player.chat = this.ticks;

  setTimer(1);

}