New Functions?

[Velox Cruentus]

onplayerlogout for NPC-Control.

triggeraction to all players clientside (insecure, but none-the-less, useful. Such as Chat Messages instead of using the server's CPU for that.)

public variables accessible by other characters:
VChp := findplayer("Velox Cruentus").clientr.hp;


OTHER:
Stop the crashing when going between servers (with GUI).
Hrm...
makevar("Items." @ number) works when the Items database NPC was created after the last server reset. If I reset the server, the strings are inaccessible by the top example untill I reset the NPC itself.

Other things useful? I don't know... Put more in here when you find things?

loadlevels(str, int); -- ? That doesn't work serverside, yet it's in Docu.

[Velox Cruentus]

Also... In G3, when you download images, it puts them in catagories under "levels". It is nice and practical, but it's pretty bothersome when working with other things. Think you could put it so it goes like: "levels/webgifs/era/era_x.png"? It would be a lot more tidy.

EDIT:

requestfiledeletion
requestfilerename
requestfilemove

-- Fix those?

[Rick]

What is wrong with them / what are you trying to use them for?

[Velox Cruentus]

Image Rotations would be nice as well.

What's wrong: They don't work at all. They seem to just carry a placeholder, but there is no functions attached.

loadlines doesn't load images... (I was trying to rename some files on the computer)

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

loadlines doesn't load images... (I was trying to rename some files on the computer)

Why would loadlines load an image file? It's binary data.

[Velox Cruentus]

Because I tried to rename the files clientside ;P
There should be a rename option somewhere! And this thread is kinda my little scratch book for little quirks in my systems.

[Xcessive54321]

So now we can double post???

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Xcessive54321

So now we can double post???

Would you go away?

[jake13jake]

What would be the best function Gscript could add, since I hate having to write it out every time, would be the distance formula!

((x1-x2)^2 + (y1-y2)^2)^(1/2)
this can get very ugly. I mean, right now you have all of these parenthesis and powers already, now the trouble comes when the variable names get bigger.
dist(x1,x2,y1,y2) or dist(x1,x2,y1,y2,z1,z2) would be nice... just more organized that way. I mean, there's already getangle and such, why not distance?

What else would be nice?
acceleration, radius (for rotation), and rotational acceleration for the move function.

[Evil_Trunks]

Originally Posted by jake13jake

What would be the best function Gscript could add, since I hate having to write it out every time, would be the distance formula!

((x1-x2)^2 + (y1-y2)^2)^(1/2)
this can get very ugly. I mean, right now you have all of these parenthesis and powers already, now the trouble comes when the variable names get bigger.
dist(x1,x2,y1,y2) or dist(x1,x2,y1,y2,z1,z2) would be nice... just more organized that way. I mean, there's already getangle and such, why not distance?

you could just make your own distance function like that

[jake13jake]

Originally Posted by Evil_Trunks

you could just make your own distance function like that

Yes, I've heard you can do that in gscript2. I just haven't come across having to use it yet since gscript2 came out.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by jake13jake

Yes, I've heard you can do that in gscript2. I just haven't come across having to use it yet since gscript2 came out.

NPC Code:

---

function dist(x1, y1, x2, y2)

{

  return ((x1 - x2) ^ 2 + (y1 - y2) ^ 2) ^ (1 / 2);

}

---

[jake13jake]

Originally Posted by Rick

NPC Code:

---

function dist(x1, y1, x2, y2)

{

  return ((x1 - x2) ^ 2 + (y1 - y2) ^ 2) ^ (1 / 2);

}

---

Wow, return actually returns now? Sweet Deal!
Wnyway, what I am now wondering: What did scripters who used return before it actually returned a value use it for?

[smurfmidgetninja]

Distance Formula? Like in Algebra/Geometry class?



Hmm I need to learn to script...I have a basic understanding of mathematics and stuff...I think I will look over the files in my Graal folder to see the scripting stuff.

[jake13jake]

Originally Posted by smurfmidgetninja

Distance Formula? Like in Algebra/Geometry class?



Hmm I need to learn to script...I have a basic understanding of mathematics and stuff...I think I will look over the files in my Graal folder to see the scripting stuff.

Yes, math can make one amazing scripter! Things that help a lot:
Averages
Distance
Trigonometry
Summations and their Properties (ex. using (-1)^n to alternate +/-, 2n-1 to create an odd number, factorials, etc.). A for loop is often used for summation.
Position -> Velocity -> Acceleration (Physics/Calculus)
Vectors
Relative Position, and lots of other stuff.

[Velox Cruentus]

So long for my little private scratch book of notes.

Yea, I suppose so. (as well as while loops... And do-while loops? As well as switch statements)

[Dach]

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

[...] As well as switch statements)

to clarify
In a different manner than with that of the loops.

[Rick]

Break halts execution of any loop.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

onplayerlogout for NPC-Control.

You mean for scripts on serverside?

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

triggeraction to all players clientside (insecure, but none-the-less, useful. Such as Chat Messages instead of using the server's CPU for that.)

Since you are not doing that too often it shouldn't be a problem, scripts are not really that slow

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

public variables accessible by other characters:
VChp := findplayer("Velox Cruentus").clientr.hp;

Whats the problem with that? You mean you want to access other peoples clientr variables on clientside?

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

OTHER:
Stop the crashing when going between servers (with GUI).

Need to debug that more

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

Hrm...
makevar("Items." @ number) works when the Items database NPC was created after the last server reset. If I reset the server, the strings are inaccessible by the top example untill I reset the NPC itself.

makevar(Items.(@ number))
It can only resolve the variable name if the dot is not in a string

[Velox Cruentus]

Originally Posted by Stefan

You mean for scripts on serverside?

Yes. On Control-NPC, I have this party system that I wish to remove the person from the party when they leave the server. I resolved that by doing a timeout loop. I do not believe that timeout loops are the best technique, provided that I can do it with a onplayerlogout.

Originally Posted by Stefan

Since you are not doing that too often it shouldn't be a problem, scripts are not really that slow

It has actually caused quite considerible lag in the past, I do believe (when players use it as a chat room, and there are 30 players actively talking?)

Originally Posted by Stefan

Whats the problem with that? You mean you want to access other peoples clientr variables on clientside?

Yea. It would be a lot neater... Such as -- I'd be able to access the other player's health stats, and perhaps make a heat-sensor a lot dimmer when they have low health, or perhaps other stimuli for it.

Originally Posted by Stefan

makevar(Items.(@ number))
It can only resolve the variable name if the dot is not in a string

Okay -- That should do... Although, it does work after the Database NPC was updated.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

Yes. On Control-NPC, I have this party system that I wish to remove the person from the party when they leave the server. I resolved that by doing a timeout loop. I do not believe that timeout loops are the best technique, provided that I can do it with a onplayerlogout.

Right now onplayerlogout is only working on clientside. On serverside the problem is that the player object needs to be removed physically because the gserver is saving the player object and updates couldn't be sent to the gserver anymore after player logout, also if the player is logging in again there could be problems if the old player object is still existing. So it could be possible to make a onplayerlogout event but just with the account name as parameter, without being able to access the player object directly.

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

It has actually caused quite considerible lag in the past, I do believe (when players use it as a chat room, and there are 30 players actively talking?)

Shouldn't be a problem, all messages on Graal Kingdoms are sent by script and there are a lot of them. The same on Zone.

Originally Posted by Velox Cruentus

Yea. It would be a lot neater... Such as -- I'd be able to access the other player's health stats, and perhaps make a heat-sensor a lot dimmer when they have low health, or perhaps other stimuli for it.

There are a lot of variables for the players, sharing those would mean a lot of traffic. It is better to use a #P(1..30) parameter, in new scripting player.attr[1..30] because those are visible for all clients. On clientside use #P(1..30,playerindex) for accessing them.

[Velox Cruentus]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Right now onplayerlogout is only working on clientside. On serverside the problem is that the player object needs to be removed physically because the gserver is saving the player object and updates couldn't be sent to the gserver anymore after player logout, also if the player is logging in again there could be problems if the old player object is still existing. So it could be possible to make a onplayerlogout event but just with the account name as parameter, without being able to access the player object directly.

That would suffice.

As for the attr's, that too would work quite well!

Thanks.

[Velox Cruentus]

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