how do i check the player health?(zscript)

[OddYokai]

Hello! I'm very new to zscript. I found an item magnet on the forum that works great. as practice, I tried to rewrite it so that the player only attracts the item if his health is less than or equal to 90. But unfortunately it didn't work, I didn't really know what to do, I tried "if(player.health <= 90)" everywhere. I know zscript doesn't really work that way, but I tried, please help


The code:

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Override void Tick()
    { 
        Super.Tick();
        GlideToPlayer(); //Call the function
    }
    void GlideToPlayer()
    {
        For(let i = BlockThingsIterator.Create(self,128); i.Next();)
        { 
            Actor other = i.thing;
            If(other==self)
            {Continue;} 
            double distance = Distance3D(other);
            If(distance>128)
            {Continue;} 
            If(other is "PlayerPawn")
            { 
                A_Face(other); //Face the player
                VelFromAngle(10.0);
            }
        }
    }
} 

[Jarewill]

To check for the player's health you need to use a pointer to the player, in your case that pointer is other, so it would look like this:
If(other is "PlayerPawn" && other.health <= 90)

By the way, if you want the magnet to also work vertically, you can replace A_Face and VelFromAngle with this:
Vel3DFromAngle(10,AngleTo(other),PitchTo(other,0,other.height/2));

[OddYokai]

Thanks! it works great. now I clearly understand what a "pointer" is and how it works.

[OddYokai]

I forgot to ask that if I want to achieve the same effect with just armor instead of health, is it enough to rewrite the code like this?

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 If(other is "PlayerPawn" && other.BasicArmor <= 90)
 

as far as I know, armor and health work differently. Unfortunately I'm at work now and can't check. But curiosity doesn't let me rest

[Jarewill]

Armor does indeed work differently, in such it's actually stored in an inventory item rather than a variable like health.
So to check how much armor the player has, you have to check for the item:

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If(other is "PlayerPawn")
{
	If(other.FindInventory("BasicArmor").Amount <= 90) //This will return a pointer to the BasicArmor item, which it will find because players always have it no matter what, and check for its amount
	{
		//Rest of the code

[Marrub]

FindInventory might return null (probably not on BasicArmor but certainly for other classes) so you might want to use CountInv, which has a built-in null check in it:

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other.CountInv("BasicArmor") <= 90)

[OddYokai]

Thank you both for your replies, it works great! I think this topic is completely solved.