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The Arctica - Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:14 pm
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Hey,

I have a struct, in the struct there are data of the player (name, kills, deaths). When a player dies i want to add ++death but, how do i know the slot of the player ?

Thanks alot anyways.

-The Arctica

D1st0rt - Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:24 pm
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Are you using merv? If you are, I would probably use tags as they are easier.

Whatever you end up using, Underlord's Tutorial tells you how to go about it

Bak - Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:11 pm
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structInstance->deaths++;

you get the right struct instance based on how you stored it... like in a linked list you would have to iterate through the list looking for when the right name.

CypherJF - Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:16 pm
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Noting that if two players have the first same 19 characters; looping through comparing player names won't work correctly.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:44 pm
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You could record it by ident. I did it once and it worked fine.

Anonymous - Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:39 am
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I'd just tag the player...
Take a look at the tutorial D1st0rt posted.
I think it's explained there.

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Underlord - Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:09 am
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assuming a struct of type:

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#define MAX_PILOT=300;

struct pilot{
char name[20];
int kills;
int deaths;
};

pilot pilots[MAX_PILOT];

to find a pilot slot

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int botInfo::GetPilot(Player *p)
{
// assumes: any player searched for already exists in the struct, otherwise sends back MAX_PILOT as slot
int pilot = 0;

for (pilot=0; pilot < MAX_PILOT; pilot++) // cycle struct slots
if (strcmp(p->name,pilots[pilot].name)==0) // compare pilot name to struct slot name
break; // found pilot

return pilot;
}

// to use in spawn.cpp

case EVENT_PlayerDeath: {

Player *p = (Player*)event.p[0];

int slot = GetPilot(p);

if (slot < MAX_PILOT)
pilots[slot].deaths++;
}

hopefully u know how to insert and delete slots as they enter/leave arena, and initialize struct data before using

tutorial location: http://www.dzleagues.com/bots/MERVbot_tutorial.html

20 character name bug ('player entering' packet only sends 19 i think) only solved by tracking userids from *einfo. easier to just disallow 19+ character names (not count them, speclock, ban, etc)

CypherJF - Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:09 pm
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Thats what I ended up doing; writing out code that would kick them out w/ a warning message.

Cyan~Fire - Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:20 pm
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Like ew, no, that's so inefficient. As long as you don't actually need to save the info after the player leaves, use the frickin' ident.

D1st0rt - Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:39 pm
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Wouldn't just a tag be more efficient? and easy?

you can like

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#define DEATHS 0
get_tag(p,DEATHS);