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[WarFan]

Is it possible to make an lvz image disappear when a ship moves over it and then reappear after it has moved off the image. This would be like for roof tops on building..you would see the roof if you were not in the building, then if you entered it, the roof would disappear. Thanks

[50% Packetloss]

You would need a bot for that, each object can have a number assigned to it

Code: Show/Hide Example: W-183,E1,IMAGE59,TopMost,ServerControlled,0,688

So if you do it manually, *objon 688 or *objoff 688 , logged in as a sysop

[WarFan]

Couple questions here.

1) So manually, I would get in a building or watch people get in a building and turn the roof image off?

2) Do you know of a bot that does this or something similar?

Thanks

[SuSE]

you just need a bot to privately send "*objon #" or "*objoff #" when a person flies into a certain area

in fact...I bet if you had the source for the TM Baw plugin for MERVBot, you could get it easily adapted for just this purpose

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No promisses that ill get it done, but Im editing Baw's source for that purpose. Mostly its just cutting pieces out. Trying to think of how im going to detect when everyone is out of the coord's area so that the bot will do a *objon after that(put the roof back on). I need some damn lunch

[Smong]

I was thinking of doing this in an asss module, but never figured out MGB's sparse array thing (what if you are on the border between two regions?). So my current methods of player position detection are not as efficient as they could be.

[SuSE]

[SuSE]

[Dr Brain]

Have a hashmap that contains player names, and thier current 'area'. That way, you only need to change things when their area changes. This is how I handle everything with my warper bots, and It works very well.
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[Smong]

What if areas overlap? Would you need to create "layers" of areas. So areas cannot overlap unless they are in a seperate layer/hashmap.

I found some doc's on sparse arrays too:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ellard/Q-97/HTML/root/root.html
Although I probably won't be using one because ops will want to define their own arbitrary areas.

I think I'll go for something like what Dr Brain said.

[50% Packetloss]

Completed it maybe, have to test it and i bet it will crash all over the place. TM Baw keeps track of an ignore list, list ignored a player for a short amount of time, not sure what exactly it was for, maybe if they spawned in a warp area they had time to move. Pretty much i turned that list into one that would hold players that were inside of a object area(InsidePlayers), specified in the .ini file. Once on the list, i can check to see if you left the area, if you did, i check to see if you were the last one out of the area by cycleing through the InsidePlayers list.

Code: Show/Hide #pragma pack(4) struct Obj {    Sint32 x1, y1, x2, y2; //holds area of the obj    bool On_Off; //object's state    Sint32 objNum; //Holds object number    Sint32 title; //Holds the area number, found in .ini, ex- [obj0] }; #pragma pack() struct InsideEntry {    char name[20]; //player name thats inside area    Sint32 title; //the area he is inside, ex- [obj1] found in .ini    InsideEntry(char *nname,Sint32 ttitle) //constuctor    {       memcpy(name, nname, 20);       title=ttitle;    } };

So if im cycling through all the _linkedlist <InsideEntry> InsidePlayer; i can check if any of them are inside a specific area (title). If they arent in that area, then i get to switch the area's state.

In theory, my code in case EVENT_PlayerMove: should regulate it properly, but im sure i fucked up somewhere and with merv, its endless trial and error to fix something. Going to get food before i test it

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Edit:nt

[Mine GO BOOM]

I believe your problem is in your loading of the ObjLocations.head, as the ->next at some point in a linked list should be NULL. Post the code of how you read the values. You probably just forgot to NULL the ->next value when you create the new memory.

[50% Packetloss]

ew,thought the class did it for me, ill try it out when im more awake

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Code: Show/Hide TEMPLATE void _linkedlist <AnonymousStruct>::append(AnonymousStruct *item) {    _listnode <AnonymousStruct> *new_tail = new _listnode <AnonymousStruct> (item);    new_tail->last = tail;    new_tail->next = NULL;    if (head == NULL)       head = new_tail;    else       tail->next = new_tail;    tail = new_tail;    total++; }

Yep, when i append anything it makes the tail->next=NULL

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Edit: NM, i have no idea where it crashes. It crashes before the CheckInside function is called after i move back outside the obj area. So i move into it and it does the correct thing, then i move back out of it and it crashes before it reaches if (!CheckInside(p->name))

Code: Show/Hide    case EVENT_PlayerMove:       {          Player *p = (Player*)event.p[0];       if(Enabled)       {          _listnode <Obj> *parse = ObjLocations.head; // Holds All the obj locations          String s; // String for turning on and off objects          if (!CheckInside(p->name)) //if player isnt inside obj area          {             while (parse) //Scroll through obj locations             {                if (p->tile.x > parse->item->x1 && p->tile.x < parse->item->x2 && p->tile.y > parse->item->y1 && p->tile.y < parse->item->y2)                { // Check locations                   if(!CheckTitle(parse->item->title)) //Is anyone already in the obj area??                   {                       if(parse->item->On_Off) //No one in obj area, switch its state for new person                      {                         s = "*objoff "; //object off command                         parse->item->On_Off=false;                      }                      else                      {                         s="*objon "; //object on command                         parse->item->On_Off=true;                      }                   }                   AddInside(p->name,parse->item->title); //Add to inside bot list                   s += parse->item->objNum; //add on object number                   sendPublic(s.msg); //send command                   break; //break out of loop                }                parse = parse->next; //go to next positions in list             }          }          else //if the player was inside obj area, see if they are still there          {             while (parse) //cylce through locations             {                if (p->tile.x > parse->item->x1 && p->tile.x < parse->item->x2 && p->tile.y > parse->item->y1 && p->tile.y < parse->item->y2)                {                   break; //they have been found inside, exit the loop                }                parse = parse->next;//go to next positions in list             }             if(!parse) //if no more locations; then they left the obj area             {                sendPublic("*arena You have left the area, removing name");                RemoveInsidePerson(p->name);//remove them from inside of obj area list                sendPublic("*arena Name Removed");                if(!CheckTitle(parse->item->title)) // If no one inside obj area                {                   if(parse->item->On_Off) //switch its state becuase everyone left                   {                      s = "*objoff "; //object off command                      parse->item->On_Off=false;                   }                   else                   {                      s="*objon "; //object on command                      parse->item->On_Off=true;                   }                   s += parse->item->objNum; //add on object number                   sendPublic(s.msg); //send command                }             }          }       }

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Added my source, Edit: Cleaned up new parse objects being created in every function, just placed ones i commonly used as private vars. Also place the code into the most recent tutorial version

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NM found the problem.

Code: Show/Hide if(!parseObj) //if no more locations; then they left the obj area             {                sendPublic("*arena You have left the area, removing name");                RemoveInsidePerson(p->name);//remove them from inside of obj area list                sendPublic("*arena Name Removed");                if(!CheckTitle(parseObj->item->title)) // If no one inside obj area                {                   if(parseObj->item->On_Off) //switch its state becuase everyone left                   {                      S = "*objoff "; //object off command                      parseObj->item->On_Off=false;                   }                   else                   {                      S="*objon "; //object on command                      parseObj->item->On_Off=true;                   }                   S += parseObj->item->objNum; //add on object number                   sendPublic(S.msg); //send command                }             }          }

doing a parseobj->item, when parse is NULL here. thats game over for any program

[lp]

actually, ive already gotten this working really well(roofbot)... but my problem is ... im trying to bring up the images in diagonal slices in certain parts of the level. as in, you could see only what your ship could see.

Anyway... when i try to line up two diagonal images.. i always get an ugly black line along the diagonal. ive tried to invert the selection in PS, ive overlapped selections and i still get the ugly. using standard 8-bit indexed images and such. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[SuSE]

[50% Packetloss]

Bot Complete, moved it to bot forum for you Akai

http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?p=10891#10891

Go there to download

[SuSE]

cool