Scripting Engine Suggestions

[DorkeyDear]

Is a health pack considered a bonus? If so, I would add it to GiveBonus sense it does two things DoDamage does differently, which is that it doesn't modify vest amount, nor doesn't call OnPlayerDamage.

In addition to Avarax's SetPlayerStat post, Primary and Secondary weapon. Already can be done with ForceWeapon, but those would feel left out if Secondary Ammo, and Ammo are included. (like IDtoName being replaced with GetPlayerStat(ID,'Name') and same thing with ID and IP)

[EnEsCe]

Stop with the Set*Stat functions. They can't be added. SetSpawnStat was only added because spawn points are 100% server side, objects and players aren't.

[Avarax]

I understand that ;Q

On a side note:
random() still doesn't seem to be fixed, people still get massive critical strikes all the time (around 6-7 in a row which has a chance of like 0.01% to happen) on the [eC] Hexer server.

[Kavukamari]

Respawn(ID: byte) ...

function Respawn(ID, SID: Byte; Health, Delay: integer);

to set which spawn point to spawn at, amount of health left, and wait time to respawn (temporary, won't change server's respawn time)

[EnEsCe]

Can't be done server-side.

[Kavukamari]

I don't want to promote disabling the anti-hack.

procedure DisableWepKick(ID, Wep: Byte; Disable: boolean);

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procedure DisableWepKick(1,5,false); //disables player one from getting kicked for having spas 12
begin
end;

would this work?

Date Posted: September 07, 2007, 10:40:59 PM

Can't be done server-side.

which part?

(the health part can already be done with GetPlayerStat(ID,'Health') = *)

[Toumaz]

(the health part can already be done with GetPlayerStat(ID,'Health') = *)

Actually, GetPlayerStat and DoDamage.

[DorkeyDear]

When an invalid ID is specified for /kill #, it still calls OnPlayerKill when it shouldn't sense no1 got killed.
Along the same lines, making it so when a player who is not in the game receives damage and dies, it doesn't call OnPlayerKill. (Tested through DoDamage, although bringing error, it still called OnPlayerKill when I set the damage to 4000)

Date Posted: September 08, 2007, 08:21:08 AMI don't know if you can change this but making it so iif function doesn't try to get what both results are, and rather the only one thats needed..

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WriteConsole(ID,'/logout                  Logs you out' + iif(LoggedIn[ID] = -1,'',' (' + Accounts[LoggedIn[ID]].Name + ')'),Color);Accounts[LoggedIn[ID]].Name is going to be out of range when LoggedIn[ID] = -1, which is the whole purpose of the iif there... but it still brings the error of being out of range.

Date Posted: September 09, 2007, 08:22:46 AM

• Ability to set the time remaining in the middle of a game
• Ability to set the position in the Mapslist.txt file so you can change what the next map will be
  
  Date Posted: September 09, 2007, 12:34:57 PMMy brother's suggestion: Prototyping
  i think its declaring a "fake" function / procedure before you actually declare what it really is, so you can have this:
  
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  function A(C: byte): byte
begin
  Result := B(C) * 2;
end;

function B(C: byte): byte
begin
  if C < 100 then Result := A(C) else WriteLn('Finished at ' + InttoStr(C));
end;this is not very useful i don't think, but theres probably cases where prototyping can be useful

[KeFear]

Is it possible to create sceneries on given coordinates by script?

[Avarax]

no and it never will be possible

[Kavukamari]

how about

function ClearText(ID:Byte;Type:string);

clears Text type from ID's screen (0 clears all player's text)
(text just dissapears from screen, isn't deleted)

Types:
Drawn ---------- clears all "Big" text ("you killed *" "Killed by *" "got rambo bow" etc)
Kills ---------- clears all Kill console text
Speak ---------- Clears all spoken text (can still see in text menu)
All ---------- Clears ALL text from screen

only clears text ON SCREEN to prepare for other texts to be written to the console

Example:

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function OnCommand(ID:Byte;Text:string):boolean;
begin
  result:=false;
  if Text = '/clear' then begin
    ClearText(0,'All'); //clears all text from all player's screens
  end;
end;


[Avarax]

Except for the drawn texts, this can't be done afaik

[Kavukamari]

so you CAN clear drawn texts? or can't, cause all I need to clear is drawn texts (so I can write my own up)

[DorkeyDear]

do DrawText where as the text is '  ' (2 spaces)

• fixing the line # for when errors coming up always being 1 more than the actual line number

[EnEsCe]

All parsers show the line number as 1 more than the actual line. Dunno why, its just how it is.

EDIT: DorkeyDear.... sigh. Change it to < 0 not = -1

Date Posted: September 10, 2007, 09:42:40 AM

When an invalid ID is specified for /kill #, it still calls OnPlayerKill when it shouldn't sense no1 got killed.
Along the same lines, making it so when a player who is not in the game receives damage and dies, it doesn't call OnPlayerKill. (Tested through DoDamage, although bringing error, it still called OnPlayerKill when I set the damage to 4000)

Fixed.

Date Posted: September 10, 2007, 02:14:39 PM- Added "Direction" stat to GetPlayerStat function
  Will return '<' if player is facing left, or '>' for facing right.

[Martino]

What about DoDamage(id,damage,shooter) so you can write who did damage. Because elsewhere it's written as suicide.

[Kavukamari]

how does the soldatserver tell if you are facing left or right?

Date Posted: September 10, 2007, 09:42:18 PM

• Make percents useable in functions.

like in Drawtext, the scale sometimes makes the lettering go off screen, so if we could use percents, then the text would fit

DrawText(0,'blahblahblah',2500,$332211,50%,200,420); makes 'blahblahblah' appear scaled to half of a window horizontaly (vertical scaling is relative to horizontal) on all players screens

[EnEsCe]

What about DoDamage(id,damage,shooter) so you can write who did damage. Because elsewhere it's written as suicide.

Dont suggest: Adding/Changing new parameters to any functions/events

[Avarax]

like in Drawtext, the scale sometimes makes the lettering go off screen, so if we could use percents, then the text would fit

DrawText(0,'blahblahblah',2500,$332211,50%,200,420); makes 'blahblahblah' appear scaled to half of a window horizontaly (vertical scaling is relative to horizontal) on all players screens

You can code something like this yourself, allthough it can get a bit tricky with different font types.

[Kavukamari]

how could I?