Question about getElementsWithinColShape

[isa_Khamdan]

Can I use this function to count players within a colshape?

[Anubhav]

Yes!

EXAMPLE:

  
local colShape = createColSphere ( 1, 2, 3, 4 ) 
local players = getElementsWithinColShape ( newcolshape, "player" )   
for theKey,thePlayer in ipairs(players) do                           
    outputChatBox ( getPlayerName ( thePlayer ) .. " is in the col shape." )   
end 
  
--I Have got this example from wiki . 
  

[Karuzo]

yes cou can.

btw Anubhav it has to be :

local players = getElementsWithinColShape ( colShape, "player" )   

[Anubhav]

ahh , ty for correcting my as it was on wiki:3 i edited it .

[isa_Khamdan]

I don't want names

I want to know how many players within ColShape

[IIYAMA]

outputChatBox(#getElementsWithinColShape ( colShape, "player" ) ) 

[Smart.]

Or do a variable, count = 0 before the loop then count = count + 1 inside.

[IIYAMA]

Or do a variable, count = 0 before the loop then count = count + 1 inside.

True, but it would be a waste of your memory since you only use it for counting.

[Smart.]

Or do a variable, count = 0 before the loop then count = count + 1 inside.

True, but it would be a waste of your memory since you only use it for counting.

What if he would like to use the previous count at any other time and I hardly doubt a variable containing max 3 integers will do anything to the memory and if it does you should seriously consider a new host.

[IIYAMA]

True, but that is just 1 loop.

If you use it in 20 times in one 1 script.

And you have 10 scripts.

And then you have 200 loops and yes that is still nothing for cpu's of these times. (only for players that have bad pc's)

But ask your self: "why write more lines then you need?"

You probably will answer: "I love to write lua....."

[Smart.]

True, but that is just 1 loop.

If you use it in 20 times in one 1 script.

And you have 10 scripts.

And then you have 200 loops and yes that is still nothing for cpu's of these times. (only for players that have bad pc's)

But ask your self: "why write more lines then you need?"

You probably will answer: "I love to write lua....."

Completely off topic but haven't been writing lua in couple of months lol

[isa_Khamdan]

outputChatBox(#getElementsWithinColShape ( colShape, "player" ) ) 

Thanks

[IIYAMA]

np.