help on write gamemode

[XetaQuake]

hi, i am currenty making a vvveerryy litle gamemode, only to learn

but the spawnpoint dont work, here is all my stuff:

meta.xml

  
<meta> 
    <info author="XetaQuake" description="to learn" version="1.0" type="gamemode" /> 
    <map src="spawnpoints.map"/> 
</meta> 
  

and my spawnpoints.map

  
<map mod="deathmatch" version="1.0"> 
  
--Spawn weapons 
    <weapon model="7" ammo="1"/> 
    <weapon model="22" ammo="500"/> 
    <weapon model="26" ammo="16"/> 
    <weapon model="29" ammo="60"/> 
    <weapon model="18" ammo="3"/> 
  
--Spawn skins 
    <skin model="105"/> 
    <skin model="106"/> 
    <skin model="107"/> 
  
--spawnpoints 
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint1" posX="2035.1265869141" posY="1524.2818603516" posZ="10.8203125" rot="0" /> 
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint2" posX="2106.6000976563" posY="1403.9052734375" posZ="11.1328125" rot="0" /> 
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint3" posX="2234.18359375" posY="1291.4482421875" posZ="10.8203125" rot="0" /> 
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint4" posX="1975.0267333984" posY="1620.3448486328" posZ="12.88099861145" rot="0" /> 
  
--vehicles 
    <vehicle model="419" posX="2509.6936035156" posY="-1668.8011474609" posZ="13.232522964478" rotX="358.50704956055" rotY="3.806396484375" rotZ="180.99597167969" /> 
    <vehicle model="422" posX="2467.1323242188" posY="-1654.2012939453" posZ="13.385867118835" rotX="358.72198486328" rotY="354.78051757813" rotZ="94.365417480469" /> 
  
--pickups 
    <pickup type="health" amount="100" posX="2302.6721191406" posY="-1449.0643310547" posZ="23.99250793457" /> 
    <pickup type="health" amount="100" posX="1704.2354736328" posY="-1135.3688964844" posZ="24.085935592651" /> 
    <pickup type="health" amount="100" posX="1911.2296142578" posY="-1776.4091796875" posZ="13.3828125" /> 
    <pickup type="health" amount="100" posX="1408.5766601563" posY="-1419.2780761719" posZ="14.203125" /> 
     
</map> 
  

the spawnpoints dont work, i dont spawn!

ONLY the vehicles works! but, and this is my second problem:

all vehicles are black?!

can someone help me on this two problems?

[Cazomino05]

Black vehicles is just a bug where vehicles.conf isnt loaded before gamemode aparently its fixed in dp3

[szlend]

Uhm you wont spawn just by making a map. You'll have to code a script that reads data from your map file ...

Here's a nice example:

  
<map> 
  
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint1" posX="1959.5487060547" posY="-1714.4613037109" posZ="877.25219726563" rot="63.350006103516" model="0"/> 
    <pickup id="Armor 1" posX="1911.083984375" posY="-1658.8798828125" posZ="885.40216064453" type="armor" health="50" respawn="60000"/> 
    <flag posX="1959.5487060547" posY="-1714.4613037109" posZ="877.25219726563" team="blue" /> 
    ... 
</map> 
  

  
local flagElements = getElementsByType ( "flag" ) 
-- loop through them 
for key, value in pairs(flagElements) do 
        -- get our info 
        local posX = getElementData ( value, "posX" ) 
        local posY = getElementData ( value, "posY" ) 
        local posZ = getElementData ( value, "posZ" ) 
        local team = getElementData ( value, "team" ) 
        -- create an object according to the flag position 
        createObject ( 1337, posX, posY, posZ ) 
        -- output the team that we created a base for 
        outputChatBox ( "Base for team " .. team .. " created" ) 
end 
  

[XetaQuake]

it that correct?

  
  
local spawn = getElementsByType ( "spawnpoint" ) 
-- loop through them 
for key, value in pairs(spawn) do 
        -- get our info 
        local posX = getElementData ( value, "posX" ) 
        local posY = getElementData ( value, "posY" ) 
        local posZ = getElementData ( value, "posZ" ) 
        -- create an object according to the flag position 
        playerSpawn ( posX, posY, posZ ) 
end 
  
  

i dont have time to test it, so i have make it in my brain

[eAi]

Try it?

It kinda depends what playerSpawn is, the rest you've copied and pasted...

[XetaQuake]

i dont was @ home, and i have post it that other members can already post stuff

so no i have tried it, and - it dont work

debugscript 3:

11: attempt to call global 'spawnPlayer' (a nil value) 

than i have seen that this is a server side script, so i have write it as server-side in the meta.xml

and now it dont work again and the debugscript says noting.

but i think this is because i have no addEventHandler, right?

so i have write a addEventHandler:

addEventHandler( "onClientResourceStart", getRootElement(), key ) 

and this dont work again, someone a idea?

[Jumba']

what the heck is playerSpawn?

the function spawnPlayer?

try

  
local spawn = getElementsByType ( "spawnpoint" ) 
-- loop through them 
for key, value in pairs(spawn) do 
        -- get our info 
        local posX = getElementData ( value, "posX" ) 
        local posY = getElementData ( value, "posY" ) 
        local posZ = getElementData ( value, "posZ" ) 
        -- create an object according to the flag position 
        spawnPlayer ( posX, posY, posZ ) 
end 
  
  

[XetaQuake]

thanks for help but noting change

btw: ah yes spawnPlayer

[Jumba']

oh, hmph.

btw, just a note, comments in XML aren't -- but

You should fix those

check in cdm.lua, maybe you can find some usefull stuff there.

[XetaQuake]

i have already looking in some lua scripts, but the problem is that the most gamemodes have teams or i dont can find the spawnpoint code stuff

[XetaQuake]

can nobody look what is wrong?

pleas, in other lua scripts i cant it find or dont use

[szlend]

Frist, this code should execute when a player joins a server like this: http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... PlayerJoin

And second, You need to specify a player element when calling the spawnPlayer function. Like: spawnPlayer ( source, posX, posY, posZ )

[driver2]

You probably wanna spawn every player at one of the spawnpoints randomly?

  
-- This function spawn the given player at one of the spawnpoints 
function spawn(player) 
    local spawnpoints = getElementsByType("spawnpoint") -- retrieve a table with all spawnpoints 
    if (#spawnpoints == 0) then return false end -- if there are no spawnpoints, stop executing 
     
    -- get a random number between 1 and the number of items in the table 'spawnpoints' 
    local rand = math.random(1,#spawnpoints) 
    -- retrieve the coordinates from the selected spawnpoint 
    local posX = getElementData ( spawnpoints[rand], "posX" ) 
    local posY = getElementData ( spawnpoints[rand], "posY" ) 
    local posZ = getElementData ( spawnpoints[rand], "posZ" ) 
     
    -- spawn the player 
    spawnPlayer(player, posX, posY, posZ) 
end 
  
-- With just this function, nothing will happen at all. We still need to add event handlers that perform the desired action when the script is loaded as well as when a new player joins the game. 
  
function resourceStarted() 
    for k,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do -- loop through all players currently on the server 
        spawn(v) -- and spawn each one of them using the function we made before 
    end 
end 
-- bind the handler to the root of THIS resource, meaning it will be triggered when THIS resource is started, else it would be triggered as soon as any other resource is started as well, as long as it runs 
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getRootElement(getThisResource)), resourceStarted) 
  
function playerJoined() 
    spawn(source) -- spawn the player who joined, in this event it is 'source' 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), playerJoined) 
  

I haven't tested it, so it may still contain errors.

Documentation pages you might wanna read to understand this:

http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... entsByType

http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... pawnPlayer

http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... entHandler

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.ht ... ath.random

[XetaQuake]

thank you thank you thank you thank you!!

this works sooo good and thanks for the links!!

By the way: i think you have write a mistake on this script (or who write this)

here the "fix":

addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getRootElement(getThisResource)[b][color=#FF0000])[/color][/b], resourceStarted) 

change to

addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getRootElement(getThisResource), resourceStarted) 

thanks for help! it works and i am so happy!

[XetaQuake]

so i have a next problem

i have a place with a marker, and when i go in it, i want to get money, but i dont get the money

(the marker are to see )

here is my code:

  
  
function Place(name) 
   if name ~= getThisResource() then return else 
   local marker = createMarker ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, "cylinder", 4, 0, 100, 200, 250 ) 
     end 
  end 
   
  function Money( player ) 
    givePlayerMoney( source, 10000 ) 
  end 
  
Col = createColSphere ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, 4 ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeHit", Col, Money ) 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement(), Place) 
  
  

[Ace_Gambit]

so i have a next problem

i have a place with a marker, and when i go in it, i want to get money, but i dont get the money

(the marker are to see )

here is my code:

  
  
function Place(name) 
   if name ~= getThisResource() then return else 
   local marker = createMarker ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, "cylinder", 4, 0, 100, 200, 250 ) 
     end 
  end 
   
  function Money( player ) 
    givePlayerMoney( source, 10000 ) 
  end 
  
Col = createColSphere ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, 4 ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeHit", Col, Money ) 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement(), Place) 
  
  

The parameters passed by onColShapeHit are hitElement and matchingDimension. So my best guess is that would want to give money to hitElement instead.

  
  function Money( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
    givePlayerMoney( hitElement, 10000 ) 
  end 
  

[mabako]

function Money( player ) 
    givePlayerMoney( source, 10000 ) 
end 

why aren'T you giving the money to the player, but to the ColShape?

[XetaQuake]

thanks mabako and Ace_Gambit

it works now i dont have knew the hitElement, matchingDimension stuff

now i try to make this in a timer, so when i go in the marker, i want to get 1000 Money every 1 second

so i have trying this already:

function Place(name) 
   if name ~= getThisResource() then return else 
   local marker = createMarker ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, "cylinder", 4, 0, 100, 200, 250 ) 
     end 
  end 
  
    setTimer(Money, 1000, 1, getRootElement) 
  
  function Money( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
    givePlayerMoney( hitElement, 10 ) 
  end 
  
Col = createColSphere ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, 4 ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeHit", Col, Money ) 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement(), Place) 

but it dont work, so i have try simple differents:

    setTimer(Money, 1000, 1, source) 

or

  
  function Timer( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
     setTimer(Money, 1000, 1, source) 
  end 
  

or

  
  function Timer( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
     setTimer(Money, 1000, 1, hitElement) 
  end 
  

but all this dont work, what make i wrong?

[Mr.Hankey]

you have to use:

  
function Money( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
givePlayerMoney( hitElement, 10 ) 
timer = setTimer (Money, 1000, 0, hitElement) -- if you set the second Value (number of repetitions) to 0 the timer will loop through the function every second for ever until you kill the timer with the killTimer function 
end 
  
function money_stop () 
killTimer (timer) 
end 
  
addEventHandler ("onColShapeLeave", Col, money_stop) 

im not really sure if it works because i just hadn't enough time to test it but i hope so =)

[XetaQuake]

hi hankey, lol thanks for help but this is the ULTIMADE Server killer

this was so funy:

first, i go in the marker and yea, all working pretty, but then: 0 - 10 - 20 - 40 - 80 - 160 - 320 ....

then the game run with 10 FPS, noting work and the server console spamm 10.00000 errors in 0.5 seconds

here the spamm error:

Bad 'element' pointer @ 'givePlayerMoney'(1) - Line: 8 

//EDIT: i have forgotten to say that when i go out of the marker, i get money again and again

[XetaQuake]

nobody a idea to fix this server killer? ^^

[50p]

Use http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... rMarkerHit instead.

[XetaQuake]

but the problem is by givePlayerMoney on the script

here is the complete script at this time to help me easier:

function Place(name) 
   if name ~= getThisResource() then return else 
   local marker = createMarker ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, "cylinder", 4, 0, 100, 200, 250 ) 
     end 
  end 
  
function Money( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
givePlayerMoney( hitElement, 10 ) 
timer = setTimer (Money, 1000, 0, hitElement) -- if you set the second Value (number of repetitions) to 0 the timer will loop through the function every second for ever until you kill the timer with the killTimer function 
end 
  
function money_stop () 
killTimer (timer) 
end 
  
Col = createColSphere ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, 4 ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeHit", Col, Money ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeLeave", Col, money_stop) 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement(), Place) 

my problem:

first, i go in the marker and yea, all working pretty, but then: 0 - 10 - 20 - 40 - 80 - 160 - 320 ....

then the game run with 10 FPS, noting work and the server console spamm 10.00000 errors in 0.5 seconds

here the spamm error:

Bad 'element' pointer @ 'givePlayerMoney'(1) - Line: 8 

//EDIT: i have forgotten to say that when i go out of the marker, i get money again and again

Edited February 16, 2008 by Guest

[50p]

Call giveMoney using timer. eg. timer = setTimer( giveMoney, 1000, 0, hitElement, 10 ). You shouldn't get errors using that.

[XetaQuake]

good idea!

so i have this code:

function Place(name) 
   if name ~= getThisResource() then return else 
   local marker = createMarker ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, "cylinder", 4, 0, 100, 200, 250 ) 
     end 
  end 
  
function Money( hitElement, matchingDimension) 
timer = setTimer( giveMoney, 1000, 0, hitElement, 10 ) 
end 
  
function money_stop () 
killTimer (timer) 
end 
  
Col = createColSphere ( -1025.5623779297, 457.65173339844, 14, 4 ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeHit", Col, Money ) 
addEventHandler ( "onColShapeLeave", Col, money_stop) 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement(), Place) 

now the script respond when i go in and out of the marker - with two warnings

WARNING: money.lua: Bad argument @ 'setTimer' - Line: 8 
WARNING: money.lua: Bad argument @ 'killTimer' - Line: 11 

and i get no money

Edited February 16, 2008 by Guest