setani params not compatible with GS2

[Jiroxys7]

Edit: *showani

As mentioned in this thread:
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=58557

I was having this issue recently. Pulling my hair out because I could not for the life of me get my ani (shown with showani, if it matters) to acknowledge params sent to it until I changed "function onCreated()" to "if(created)"

That's an 8 year-old thread

[DustyPorViva]

Your post lacks some important info... like the script in question.

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Your post lacks some important info... like the script in question.

It's pretty much exactly what it says on the tin.

If you do showani(200,player.x,player.y,player.dir,"myani"," superkewlparam");

...Then in the gani doing: player.chat = param[0]; or whatever inside a "function onCreated()", it will always return null unless you do it in an "if (created) statement instead.

[Crow]

Try:

PHP Code:

showani(200,player.x,player.y,player.dir,"myani,superkewlparam"); 


showani() only accepts five arguments, of which only the last one is a string.

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by Crow

Try:

PHP Code:

showani(200,player.x,player.y,player.dir,"myani,superkewlparam"); 


showani() only accepts five arguments, of which only the last one is a string.

Not true. Otherwise it wouldn't have worked even with "if(created)".

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Jiroxys7

Not true. Otherwise it wouldn't have worked even with "if(created)".

Script help for 'showani':
TServerNPC.showani(int, float, float, int, str) - returns object

Give what I said a shot. Does it work?

[Admins]

It's a special "hack" to access gani parameters inside gani scripts: if you use if (playerenters) and such then you can access the gani parameters via params[]

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by Crow

Give what I said a shot. Does it work?

Didn't work for me :s
Edit: I feel like ganis are being very fickle. I've been trying to debug them using player.chat = whatever, and half the time it simply doesn't work. No apparent rhyme or reason considering that It'll do this even if the updated gani is identical to a version I had a few moments ago where it worked. At the time of posting, your suggestion didn't work. There were no syntax errors, and it definitely wasn't my imagination. It simply did not work. And now for no apparent reason your method of passing params is suddenly working.

Originally Posted by Stefan

It's a special "hack" to access gani parameters inside gani scripts: if you use if (playerenters) and such then you can access the gani parameters via params[]

While we're on the topic, would there be any way to do something like this?

PHP Code:

SCRIPT
if (created){
  onTimeout();
}
function onTimeout()
{ 
  thiso.tu = player.findweapon("WeaponName").GetCharge(); //<-- This
  setTimer(.1);
}
SCRIPTEND 


Using just "findweapon("$Titan Blade").GetCharge();" works fine on your end if you're the one that's using it. It gets a value that changes the gani's colors over time as you hold a key down. Except for everyone else, it looks for WeaponName on THEIR account, which usually won't exist. Plus it's not likely that they're just going to happen to be holding the same key that's needed. Causing it not to change color on their end.

Stuff like player.x, player.y, and player.account will all accurately recognize the player that invoked the gani. But would it be possible for us to do more with that player? Or will I have to resort to a more hackish approach and send this value as it's own param and rapidly re-apply the animation over and over in order to achieve this?

[Crow]

Your best bet for fetching data inside a gani:

• If you only need data of the player viewing the gani, use client.vars.
• If you need data of the player the gani is attached to (or which the player is "using", for that matter) use player.attr[].

[cbk1994]

Also, typically use playerenters and not created.

[Admins]

Also one comment about shown: if you provide more parameters than necessary then it's adding them comma-separated to the last parameter, so it can be used to provide gani parameters.