race marker

[Tadpole]

ok so im wondering me and my friend is working on a dragstrip race wt the airport in SF and i wanna no if i can set onMarkerHit to out put chatbox like (name has won the race) then after he gits passed marker a next (name has finished second) and so on up to six people is this possible thx for reply's

[eAi]

You can do this, yes.

[Tadpole]

Okay thanks for the reply

*EDIT* ok so i got to a point were i need help! im a bit of a noob at lua but this is what i have so far

enter3 = createMarker (  -1148.4782, 345.7957, 13.6835, "cylinder", 30, 125, 0, 0, 155, getRootElement() ) 
     
function MarkerHit ( hitPlayer, matchingDimension ) 
  
    outputChatBox ( "sourcePlayer() has won the race!" ) 
  
end 
addEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3, MarkerHit) 
  
function MarkerHit ( hitPlayer, matchingDimension ) 
  
        outputChatBox ( "thePlayer finished second!" ) 
end 
addEventHandler ("onMarkerHit", enter3, MarkerHit) 

[devil666]

Here it is for when u hit the marker sorry it took me so long to get it.....0o0o0o0 and i still dont know how to stop it from saying it again when someone hits it after u

enter3 = createMarker ( -1148.4782, 345.7957, 13.6835, "cylinder", 30, 125, 0, 0, 155, getRootElement() )

function MarkerHit ( player, hitPlayer, matchingDimension )

username = getClientName ( player )

outputChatBox ( username, player, 255, 0, 0 )

outputChatBox ( "Has Won The Race!", 255, 0, 0 )

end

addEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3, MarkerHit)

[robhol]

If you want real "ranking" by order, this would be better:

  
ranking = 1; -- start at one, of couse... 
  
addEventHandler("onPlayerMarkerHit", theMarker, 
function () -- there are two arguments, but we won't use any of them. 
  
    outputChatBox( getPlayerName(source) .. " finished as #" .. tostring(ranking) .. "!"); 
    ranking = ranking + 1; -- count upwards. 
  
end 
) 
  

Erm... I think I used a 1.0-only function, it's likely to be the getPlayerName. If you use DP2.3 and the server nags you about an attempt to call a nil value, replace getPlayerName with the valid function from DP2.3, i think it's getClientName.

Also, although this is DEAD obvious, I didn't make the marker, that's up to you.

[[DKR]silverfang]

Okay thanks for the reply

*EDIT* ok so i got to a point were i need help! im a bit of a noob at lua but this is what i have so far

 original code 

  
  
function startRace () 
    position = 1 
    enter3 = createMarker (  -1148.4782, 345.7957, 13.6835, "cylinder", 30, 125, 0, 0, 155, getRootElement() ) 
    addEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3, MarkerHit) 
end 
addCommandHandler("race", startRace) 
     
function MarkerHit ( hitPlayer, matchingDimension ) 
    if position = 1 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has won the race!" ) 
        position = position + 1 
    elseif position = 2 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has come second!" ) 
        position = position + 1 
    elseif position = 3 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has come third!" ) 
        --remove event handler so this function doesn't get called again! 
        removeEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3,MarkerHit) 
        destroyElement(enter3) 
    end 
end 
  

I've edited it a bit so it'll do exactly what you want for dp2.3

Edited March 17, 2009 by Guest

[DutchCaffeine]

  
  
function startRace () 
    position = 1 
    enter3 = createMarker (  -1148.4782, 345.7957, 13.6835, "cylinder", 30, 125, 0, 0, 155, getRootElement() ) 
    addEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3, MarkerHit) 
end 
addCommandHandler("race", startRace) 
     
function MarkerHit ( hitPlayer, matchingDimension ) 
    if position = 1 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has won the race!" ) 
        -- add one to position (can't remember if this works for LUA as I've not been scripting in it for a while... Damn project work) 
        -- if position++ doesn't work use position = position + 1 instead 
        position++ 
    elseif position = 2 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has come second!" ) 
        position++ 
    elseif position = 3 then 
        outputChatBox ( getClientName(hitPlayer).. " has come third!" ) 
        --remove event handler so this function doesn't get called again! 
        removeEventHandler("onMarkerHit", enter3,MarkerHit) 
        destroyElement(enter3) 
    end 
end 
  

I've edited it a bit so it'll do exactly what you want for dp2.3

That aint going to work.

variable++; -- is like php. 
variable = variable + 1; -- That is lua. 

[[DKR]silverfang]

That aint going to work.

variable++; -- is like php. 
variable = variable + 1; -- That is lua. 

Yeah, I've been using alot of PHP lately and if you'd read my code you would have seen that I wasn't sure if it worked in LUA or not...

Have edited the snippet now...