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[Chambahs]

currently in the ASSS setts, you can set the powerball location, but you can only set it to 1 spawn, what happens if i want to set 1 ball at a spawn, and another ball at a different spawn?

<-currently writing a module for powerballs because i cant figure it out

[Smong]

Here is some stuff from src/balls.h that should help you figure it out on your own:

Code: Show/Hide /* called when a player scores a goal */ #define CB_GOAL "goal" typedef void (*GoalFunc)(Arena *arena, Player *p, int bid, int x, int y); /* pycb: arena, player, int, int, int */ struct BallData {    /* pytype: struct, struct BallData, balldata */    int state; /* the state of this ball */    int x, y, xspeed, yspeed; /* the coordinates of the ball */    Player *carrier; /* the player that is carrying or last touched the ball */    int freq; /* freq of carrier */    ticks_t time; /* the time that the ball was last fired (will be 0 for                   * balls being held). for BALL_WAITING, this time is the                   * time when the ball will be re-spawned. */ };    void (*PlaceBall)(Arena *arena, int bid, struct BallData *newpos);    /* sets the parameters of the ball to those in the given BallData     * struct */    /* pyint: arena, int, balldata -> void */

You'll probably want to place the balls when the arena gets created and after a goal. You can use CB_ARENAACTION and CB_GOAL for this.

You may have to use a timer to move the ball, when I made golf I found that the server crashes if you move balls around too soon after an event.

If ball was a variable, you would be interested in changing ball.x and ball.y. I believe the coordinates are in pixels. bid or ball id starts at 0 and goes up to 7.

Getting the current ticks could be a problem, an oversight in pymod? Also I don't know too much py, but I reckon you could initialise the ball data with a tuple.

[Chambahs]

well, grel said it probably wont be possible, so meh...lol close this if you would like

[Dr Brain]

It's not possible with the standard modules and probably wont be.

I've never let that stop me with my development of zones, and nor should it stop anyone else.
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[stag shot]

Well, it's been a looooong time since I dug through the balls module...But a quick look indicated you'd have to intercept at

void SpawnBall(Arena *arena, int bid)

Perhaps add custom code to check arena name or something...And of course the settings would be hardcoded, unless you wanna add new settings! It's dirty, but doable.

stag

[Grelminar]

There's a much easier way than the ugly stuff all you people are suggesting: just make the spawnx, y, and radius values in the arena data in the balls module arrays, 4 elements long. then add code to read extra settings Soccer:Spawn{X,Y,Radius}{1,2,3}. Then do the same thing that cont does with the freq spawn settings: if only one is set, use it for all balls. If two are set, use 0 for the even balls and 1 for the odds. If four are set, do it mod 4.

This probably won't be enough to create your game, but it's a start, and it might be useful for others anyway.