Shooter, kill messages

[Dealman]

I've been working on a new shooter script for a while and so far all is good, however I'd like to be able to output messages. For example if you shoot a rocket, and manage to hit a player which kills him, you'd receive a message "You killed Player 2", where as Player 2 would receive a message "You were killed by Player 1".

So far I haven't been able to accomplish anything.

I've tried using the events onClientPlayerWasted as well as onClientProjectileCreation but I couldn't find a way to make it work. Does anyone have any good pointers as to how to go about to achieve this? If so, that would be greatly appreciated!

Edited May 24, 2013 by Guest

[h4x7o0r]

As far as i know, you can't detect who triggered a projectile but maybe

  
getDistanceBetweenPoints3D 
colshape 

would help u. Think that has been discussed in some previous posts like this : viewtopic.php?f=91&t=57003

[Dealman]

As far as i know, you can't detect who triggered a projectile but maybe

  
getDistanceBetweenPoints3D 
colshape 

would help u. Think that has been discussed in some previous posts like this : viewtopic.php?f=91&t=57003

I don't believe that is quite what I want... onClientProjectileCreation has a parameter for the creator, which I believe would be used for the "You were killed by..." message. The problem though is that I can't find a way to recognize when a player was killed by a projectile... I've also tried onClientPlayerDamage but to no avail. It might just be that I'm doing it entirely wrong

[arezu]

The way it's done in my server is by using onClientExplosion to get the creator of the rocket that exploded and then getDistanceBetweenPoints3D to your own vehicle and a timer to see if you died within the time it takes for a vehicle on fire to explode (in case the explosion was not a direct hit and instead caused your vehicle to start burning).

Then trigger to server for syncing.

This method is not the best, but its accurate enough.

[codeluaeveryday]

Sorry for the bump, just thought this may be useful, the first method I created and I am 100% sure of, is to use peds. When a ped dies (comits sucide) it gets the last known damage source and blames it. So we used a ped wasted event.

Create peds,

attach them to the vehicles,

set the alpha to 0,

and wait until they die.

This was so accurate, we never encountered a issue with this method. This was my idea by the way.

[tosfera]

How about OnPlayerWasted. It returns the killer and you already got the player that died.

[codeluaeveryday]

How about OnPlayerWasted. It returns the killer and you already got the player that died.

WTF? Dude we are talking about the race gamemode, you have no idea what your on about, and you couldn't be anymore incorrect. Goodnight all..

[tosfera]

How about OnPlayerWasted. It returns the killer and you already got the player that died.

WTF? Dude we are talking about the race gamemode, you have no idea what your on about, and you couldn't be anymore incorrect. Goodnight all..

Wauw, the award for biggest bitch goes to.... no not you. I've seen worse, but still. He didn't mention a shooting system in a race system, so ya. In fact, my answer would be right without knowing it is in a race gamemode.

[kevenvz]

Maybr setElementData(projectile,"username") on the projectile element and then add an on element player hit or something?

[Dealman]

Appreciate the answers, but I no longer need help with this.

[Spajk]

If you found a solution, please post it

[codeluaeveryday]

How about OnPlayerWasted. It returns the killer and you already got the player that died.

WTF? Dude we are talking about the race gamemode, you have no idea what your on about, and you couldn't be anymore incorrect. Goodnight all..

Wauw, the award for biggest bitch goes to.... no not you. I've seen worse, but still. He didn't mention a shooting system in a race system, so ya. In fact, my answer would be right without knowing it is in a race gamemode.

When a player dies in a car there is never a responsible element, this is why you attach a ped to the car and get the person who kill the ped. That's really all that's needed. Yes I am a bitch and I take full pride in it. Seriously stop replying, and how could you not know what the purpose of this resource is??? Oh wait you must not be as skilled as me I am fluent in pretty much every gamemode Except DD, my ping is too high, so it's unfair.

@Keven, you can already add a projectile creator with the function, it sync's with element data anyway, a way to read it would be:

getElementData(projectile, "creator")..