Bomber script -- press b and click to explode

[tomozj]

Let me explain what the script does, first.

When you press b, it's meant to allow you to click somewhere and when you click it creates an explosion for all players, complete with chatbox messages at various stages.

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Edit

As I've fixed the script, you may download it a few posts down.

Edited January 10, 2008 by Guest

[Black Dragon]

Lemme correct some errors.

function keydown() 
    if ( mouseon == 0 ) then 
        ActivateMouse() 
    else 
        DeactivateMouse() 
    end 
end 
  
function startup() 
    -- At startup, we'll bind the key. 
    outputChatBox( "Startup." ) 
    bindKey( "b", "down", keydown ) 
    outputChatBox( "Key binded." ) 
end 
  
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart", getRootElement(), startup) 
  
function commands( commandName, arg, arg2 ) 
    if( arg == "keydown" ) 
        keydown() 
        outputChatBox( "key down." ) 
        return 
    elseif( arg == "mouse" ) then 
        if( arg2 == "on" ) then 
            ActivateMouse() 
            outputChatBox( "Mouse activated." ) 
        else 
            DeactivateMouse() 
            outputChatBox( "Mouse deactivated." ) 
        end 
        return 
    else 
        outputChatBox( "Bomber script is active. (c) tomozj 2008" ) 
        outputChatBox( "USAGE: /bomber [start/keydown/mouse] [on/off]" ) 
        return 
    end 
end 
  
addCommandHandler("bomber", commands, arg, arg2) 

All in all, you added ends before elses, which is a syntax error in Lua. Also, onClientResourceStart actually executes on resource start, (honest!) so it's redundant to have a command to execute it again.

Oh, and I didn't check to see if it actually works, it's up to you from here.

[VRocker]

Right, theres a few things wrong with this script. Suprised the debug didn't moan at you tbh

First of all, i notice you do:

if ( mouseon == 0 ) then 
          ActivateMouse() 
end 
else 
        DeactivateMouse() 
end 

LUA doesn't work that way, you have a stray 'end' before your else. It should be:

if ( mouseon == 0 ) then 
        ActivateMouse() 
else 
       DeactivateMouse() 
end 

Its the same with elseif's

Down on line 72 you have this:

function outputStatus() 

but with no matching end. Every 'function' needs an end even if it doesn't have anything in.

Anyway from a quick glance it looks of except for what i've pointed out. Fix those problems and it should work

Sorry if my explaination isn't too good.. its late and i'm tired

*EDIT* Doh! Dragon beat me to it

[tomozj]

Ah, excellent guys. I really appreciate this, as I was going nuts!

They seem pretty petty errors, which is probably why I missed them. And that random function with no end was probably something I forgot about (it's strange not using a compiler to check over).

Once again, thank you!

[Sky]

Hi,

I try to take the script and the install on my server but I did not understand everything:

I took the code and I save it as a bomber.lua

I created a file containing meta.xml:

I put the 2 files into an archive bomber.zip then j'aio put in this archive

C: \ Program Files \ San Andreas MTA \ server \ mods \ deathmatch \ resources

Its marked as a resource has been instructed, I started, but when I want to try it on the server, it does nothing, I press b, does nothing, I made / bomber, does nothing

What is the problem?

Thank you

[niemi]

Hi,

I try to take the script and the install on my server but I did not understand everything:

I took the code and I save it as a bomber.lua

I created a file containing meta.xml:

I put the 2 files into an archive bomber.zip then j'aio put in this archive

C: \ Program Files \ San Andreas MTA \ server \ mods \ deathmatch \ resources

Its marked as a resource has been instructed, I started, but when I want to try it on the server, it does nothing, I press b, does nothing, I made / bomber, does nothing

What is the problem?

Thank you

You have to add this text on server\mods\deathmatch\mtaserver.conf

This:

scroll the text down and there is these

so add that So the text in down must look like that

[VRocker]

Hi,

I try to take the script and the install on my server but I did not understand everything:

I took the code and I save it as a bomber.lua

I created a file containing meta.xml:

I put the 2 files into an archive bomber.zip then j'aio put in this archive

C: \ Program Files \ San Andreas MTA \ server \ mods \ deathmatch \ resources

Its marked as a resource has been instructed, I started, but when I want to try it on the server, it does nothing, I press b, does nothing, I made / bomber, does nothing

What is the problem?

Thank you

This is not a server script. its for the client. tomozj hasn't posted the server script for it. Anyway to get client scripts working, change type="server" to type="client" in your meta.

But like i said, if you had it working all it would do is output stuff to the chatbox since theres no server script and it doesn't look finished

[ChrML]

niemi: That's to start the resource with the server. It doesn't have to be there. Just type "refresh" in the console once you've added your resource and then "start resourcename" to start it.

[tomozj]

I've fixed it now, and it works great -- thankyou again.

This is a client side script, apart from the explosion part - I wanted to test out calling server events from the client. This was my first script.

Here's the full thing:

http://www.tomozj.com/storage/bomber.zip

Note: This zip archive will not work with the MTA Server. Extract and copy the folder to your resources folder.

How to use? Start the bomber resource, and press b to start. Tested with multiple people, and they all love it!

[Sky]

Thank you very much for your support, everything worked!

I have just one last question:

Is it possible to limit the blows eg 1 times in 5 minutes?

Thank you

[tomozj]

Add another variable to check if they're allowed to explode, and in the keydown() function if this variable is a true value, then return an error. In the explode function (which calls the server event), you should set this variable to true, and then set a timer to set it back to untrue after 5 minutes.

[Sky]

function keydown() 
    -- The key is the bomb one so we'll check whether to activate or deactivate. 
    if ( mouseon == 0 ) then 
        ActivateMouse() 

where ?

Thx.

[tomozj]

Add another if statement to check that variable straight after that comment.