need help with "if" and getPlayerTeam

[heavy air]

hi all

having problems getting this to work

i get no errors from debug but i only get the output to chatbox "tester" from upperdoorkey and i get "your on heavys team" from joinateam

here is the script

local upperdoorlock = createColSphere ( -1156, 43, 0, 15 ) 
local upperdoor = createObject ( 3113, -1156.52, 43.1175, 0, 0, 15.88000, 316.330 ) 
local heavysteam = { } 
  
function upperdoorkey ( player, cmd ) 
   local whatteam = getPlayerTeam ( player ) 
   outputChatBox ( "tester" ) 
      if whatteam == "heavysteam" then  
         outputChatBox ( "open sesame" ) 
            moveObject ( upperdoor, 5000, -1156.52, 43.1175, -10 ) 
            setTimer ( moveObject, 8000, 1, upperdoor, 5000, -1156.52, 43.1175, 0 ) 
            setTimer ( outputChatBox, 8000, 1, "close sesame" )   
  
       else 
       end 
end 
  
addCommandHandler ( "openupper", upperdoorkey ) 
  
  
function joinateam( source, cmd ) 
   createTeam ( "heavysteam" ) 
   setPlayerTeam ( source, heavysteam ) 
   outputChatBox ( "your on Heavys Team" ) 
end 
  
addCommandHandler ( "heavysside", joinateam ) 

i have tried a few different ways of checking what team the player is on but everything else i have tried has given me either bad player pointer errors or bad argument errors. not sure where ive gone wrong so any advice would be helpful.

the colsphere i was using to with getElementsWithinColShape and then getElementsByType "player" but i got really confused that way so i have tried this now

Thanx for l king

[darkdreamingdan]

getPlayerTeam only returns the team element. If you want to compare the team name, you need to use getTeamName. So performing a getTeamName check on the player's team should make your if statement work.

Also your setPlayerTeam function is flawed. You need to pass the team element. createTeam returns a team element that you can pass into it, however.

[heavy air]

AWESOME

thanks for the help working fine now