Help please

[-.Paradox.-]

Hello I want a little help,

I have a ranking system with levels and I want use if player level is 1 then draw an image "lvl_1.png" and if player level is 0 then draw "lvl_0.png" can somebody suggest to me what I could use for that and thanks

[Castillo]

How are you saving the level?

[-.Paradox.-]

Can't understand

It's the XP system that you helped me with

[Mefisto_PL]

He ask about HOW are you saving it. Using setElementData or MySQL or another way ?

[.:HyPeX:.]

He ask about HOW are you saving it. Using setElementData or MySQL or another way ?

Searching user's post.. found this

viewtopic.php?f=91&t=63362&p=617760#p617760

we should suppose he is using elementData then.

[Mefisto_PL]

But I won't search his posts for help him, he should write what he's using.

[myonlake]

You have to use either GUI Static images or DirectX image drawings. Here is an example on how to draw an image with dxDrawImage. Make sure you have put the file in the images folder inside the resource and make sure the extension is right.

Client-side

local sx, sy = guiGetScreenSize() -- Get screen width and height 
local imageWidth, imageHeight = 100, 100 -- Define image width and height 
local imageExtension = "png" -- Define image extension (i.e. 'png', 'jpg', 'gif'...) 
local imageAlpha = 255 -- Define image transparency (alpha) 
local postGUI = true -- Define whether the image will be drawn on top of GUIs or beneath the GUIs 
  
-- Start rendering 
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, 
 function() 
  local level = getElementData(localPlayer, "Level") -- Get the element data for the level 
  if (not level) then return end -- If player has no level element data -> return end 
  dxDrawImage((sx-imageWidth)/2, (sy-imageHeight)/2, imageWidth, imageHeight, "images/" .. string.gsub(level, "Lvl ", "") .. "." .. imageExtension, 0, 0, 0, tocolor(255, 255, 255, imageAlpha), postGUI) -- Draw the image 
 end 
) 

[-.Paradox.-]

@Mefisto_PL I'm using setElementData

@myonlake thanks but I know how to draw images my problem is what I must use to create the script

[myonlake]

StevyDK said:

@Mefisto_PL I'm using setElementData

@myonlake thanks but I know how to draw images my problem is what I must use to create the script

Take a look at the code I posted. That's an example on how to make it work with your system, should work, but you have to do the rest yourself.

[-.Paradox.-]

Thanks a lot but where I can write the name of image like example

"experience/ranks/lvl_"..Level..".png"

[myonlake]

In the fifth argument of dxDrawImage, change "images" to "experience/ranks/lvl_".

[-.Paradox.-]

Ok thanks and can I use LV instead of Lvl because that's what I'm using and thanks

[myonlake]

Sure, the main point being that you understand what the code does.

You're welcome.

[-.Paradox.-]

I need one more thing, the image of levels are

lvl_1.png

lvl_2.png

...........

lvl_23.png

Were i have to define the name of the png file?

[myonlake]

Quote

In the fifth argument of dxDrawImage, change "images" to "experience/ranks/lvl_".

 

[-.Paradox.-]

Ok thanks and sorry i tought it's wrong that why i asked.

[myonlake]

You're welcome.

[-.Paradox.-]

Won't work there is an error in debug

dxDrawImage[Can't load]

[myonlake]

What's the full error. It should display the file path. Apparently there is no file in the path specified.

Also, make sure you've added the file into the meta.xml.

[-.Paradox.-]

Yes I did

[-.Paradox.-]

Actually there is another error in guiGetScreenSize

[myonlake]

Apparently it's just a random error whenever the rendering process begins, but that's normal behavior as the image isn't loaded yet. You can add a fileExists() function there if you want, but the image should still display. I tested it myself and it works just fine.

Make sure the element data is similar to this: "Lvl 1", "Lvl 2" and so on, otherwise the gsub doesn't work.

[-.Paradox.-]

I'm using LV and name of the images are lvl_1.png etc

[myonlake]

If the element data value is "LV1", "LV2"... then you have to change the string.gsub's second argument to match "LV" or so.

[-.Paradox.-]

I did