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[The Arctica]

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]

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
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[Bak]

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]

Noting that if two players have the first same 19 characters; looping through comparing player names won't work correctly.
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[Cyan~Fire]

You could record it by ident. I did it once and it worked fine.
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[k0zy (too lazy to login)]

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]

assuming a struct of type:

Code: Show/Hide #define MAX_PILOT=300; struct pilot{    char name[20];    int kills;     int deaths; }; pilot pilots[MAX_PILOT];

to find a pilot slot

Code: Show/Hide 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]

Thats what I ended up doing; writing out code that would kick them out w/ a warning message.

[Cyan~Fire]

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]

Wouldn't just a tag be more efficient? and easy?

you can like

Code: Show/Hide #define DEATHS 0 get_tag(p,DEATHS);