Payday Help

[sebihunter]

Hey

I have problems with my payday. Here is my code

function payday ( source, command ) 
  
      givePlayerMoney ( source, 2000 ) 
        outputChatBox ( "PAYDAY: 2000$" ) 
     setTimer ( payday, 1000, 1) 
        
end 
  
setTimer (payday, 5000, 1) --1000 = 1 second 

The time is only as test. I hope you can help me

Sebihunter

[Franc[e]sco]

When u set the timer you should set it in the onPlayerSpawn and u should pass the player's id so:

setTimer (payday, 5000, 1, source)

oh and anyways this will execute only 1 time if u do not set the times parameter to 0

[sebihunter]

Thanks!

Edit:

did everything you told me except to movethe timer to player spawn cause I want that all players get at the same time payday, but there is still an lua warning for the give money function

[Franc[e]sco]

heh if u want that payday for all the players at the same time it's more complicated im not sure but u should make a timer without passing the playerid on the top of the gamemode then in the payday function a for that applies the payday to every player on the server...

[sebihunter]

I think I make it first with the spawn timer

Thanks!

[AlienX]

Im assuming you wish to pay every player on the server every 5 seconds or whatever..

here is a nice and easy way to do it:

  
  
function allPlayersPayDay() 
  local allPlayers = getElementsByType("player") --Get all the players in the server 
  for index,value in ipairs(allPlayers) do --Loop around all of the players 
    givePlayerMoney ( value, 2000 ) --give this player some moneys 
    outputChatBox ( "Its your payday, you have been given $2000", value ) --Tell them that its been given 
  end 
end 
  
function onResourceStart(thisResource) 
  setTimer ( allPlayersPayDay, 5000, 0 ) --When this resource has started, setup a new timer to give players some cash every 5 seconds 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), onResourceStart ) --Add the event handler for onResourceStart which is automatically executed when this is started 
  

Sorry if it has any errors, i wrote it from memory in the forum edit box lol.

[ChrML]

You can do it easier. givePlayerMoney supports being called to a group of elements/players, so if you call it on the root element, all players get money. Here's an example:

  
function allPlayersPayDay() 
  givePlayerMoney ( getRootElement(), 2000 ) --give all players some moneys 
  outputChatBox ( "Its your payday, you have been given $2000" ) --Tell them that its been given 
end 
  
function onResourceStart(thisResource) 
  setTimer ( allPlayersPayDay, 5000, 0 ) --When this resource has started, setup a new timer to give players some cash every 5 seconds 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), onResourceStart ) --Add the event handler for onResourceStart which is automatically executed when this is started 
  

If you have a team of players (see createTeam), you can use setElementParent to make the players in the team a child of that team. And call givePlayerMoney on the team, and all players in that team will get the money.