Hi, having trouble with checking DisplayName in custom fucntion

[TooCoolToo]

I made a custom class called "Badass". This function is supposed to check if the DoomPlayer is called "BadAss" or just "Marine". However, for some reason, it doesn't work. I've tried PlayerPawn and Actor, but DisplayName doesn't work?

GScript error, "C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Doomed/:zscript" line 186:
GUnknown identifier 'DisplayName'

Execution could not continue.
1 errors while parsing scripts

Here is my code:

Code: Select all

class MyPlayer : DoomPlayer{	
Default
	{	Health 125 ;
		Player.MaxHealth 125 ; 
		Player.DisplayName "The Badass" ;
		Player.StartItem "Chainsaw";
		Player.StartItem "Fist";
		Player.StartItem "Pistol";
		Player.StartItem "Clip", 25;
		Player.StartItem "Vilestaff" ;
		Player.StartItem "DoomOrb", 10;
	}
	
	int GetActorName(DoomPlayer dplay) 
	{    
  // If the 'who' pointer is null, returns -1 and stops execution:
  if (dplay.DisplayName == "Marine")
  {
    return -1;
  }
  // Otherwise returns the health value of pointer 'who':
  return dplay.health;

    }   	





}

[Bledan]

If I’m not mistaken, DisplayName isn’t an Actor’s variable but a property, which is a sort of alias used to assign default values on spawning (correct me if my explanation has some errors) and is tied to an actual variable but it’s NOT the variable itself and thus cannot be read by a function. Now I don’t know the corresponding variable, maybe someone else does?

[Nash]

Code: Select all

if (dplay.GetPrintableDisplayName(dplay.GetClass()) ~== "Marine")
{
// etc

- You can't read DisplayName directly. You'll have to use the designated getter function GetPrintableDisplayName, which takes in an Actor Class argument, hence dplay.GetClass()
- ~== is a case-insensitive strings comparison. Documented on this page: https://zdoom.org/wiki/ZScript_data_types#Strings