[ZScript] Getting all current ammo classes

[Boondorl]

Is there a way to get a list of all the current ammo classes in the game? Specifically any class that inherits from Ammo. I wanted to put together a list of all of them so I could do some stuff involving looping through them while the player is playing. The mod is meant to be compatible with others so I need to make sure custom ammo types are included as well.

[Apeirogon]

All ammo classes as "ammo defined in game at all" or "all ammo spawned/placed on map"?

[Matt]

EDIT: ignore this, see below

Something like this might do. (untested, might contain syntax errors; I also don't remember how to define an array of classes of a specific type, hence the strings)

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    array<string> ammoclasses;
    ammoclasses.clear();
    for(int i=0;i<allactorclasses.size();i++){
        class<actor> reff=allactorclasses[i];
        if(reff is "Ammo"){
            ammoclasses.push(reff.getclassname());
        }
    }
 

[Graf Zahl]

That won't work as-is. Only immediate descendants of Ammo are actual types, anything further down the line maps to the original class in the chain as an ammo type.

[phantombeta]

That won't work as-is. Only immediate descendants of Ammo are actual types, anything further down the line maps to the original class in the chain as an ammo type.

Unless you override some stuff in the descendant class. Which I believe some have done so that they can make a base class for all of their mod's ammo types.

[Matt]

I guess the viability of my solution would depend a lot on the OP's needs then - aren't all the subclasses supposed to be pickup varieties of the underlying immediate Ammo descendants which would be the actual ammo item being counted?

EDIT: I think I misread Graf's post as meaning the exact diametrical opposite of what was intended, guessing from the post below.

[Graf Zahl]

That won't work as-is. Only immediate descendants of Ammo are actual types, anything further down the line maps to the original class in the chain as an ammo type.

Unless you override some stuff in the descendant class. Which I believe some have done so that they can make a base class for all of their mod's ammo types.

That's mainly irrelevant. The check must be the same, i.e. "if (type == type.GetParentAmmo()" to ensure you got a valid type.