[Solved] Give one Thing ID to all players?!

[Tormentor667]

How can I give a certain Thing ID via script to each player? For example I want every player to have the thing id 99, how do I do that?

[The NUtcracker]

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Sript 100 ENTER
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0,99);
}

Untested, but should work.

[Kate]

You'll also need to do this if you intend on making it multiplayer-compatible in order for the tids to always refer to the living players, rather than only the ones that spawned when the map started:

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script 300 ENTER 
{ 
    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 99); 
}

script 301 DEATH 
{ 
    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 0); 
}

script 302 RESPAWN 
{ 
    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 99); 
}

This will remove the tid from a player corpse when that player dies, and reassign it to them when they respawn. (It's also a good idea to move the script no.'s above 255 if you don't plan on calling them in the map from a line)

[Tormentor667]

Thx Kate, that does the jop

[HotWax]

Do the JOP!(tm) Come on everybody, do the JOP!(tm)


ANYWAY....


Why would you want every player to have the same TID? You won't be able to single them out for any actions that way.

If you're just using it to determine whether a player triggered a script or something, this will work just as well:

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if (ActivatorTID() > 98 && ActivatorTID() < 107) // Player

Or just give your players TIDs starting at 9000 or something and make sure nothing has a higher TID. Then you can use an even easier check:

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if (ActivatorTID() >= 9000) // Player

[Zippy]

Don't forget the wonderful function [wiki]PlayerNumber[/wiki]! You can use it to give each player a unique TID in an obvious range with a single script:

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script 1 ENTER
{
   Thing_ChangeTID(0, 99 + PlayerNumber());
}

And you can use it to determine if a player activated a script:

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script 2 (void)
{
   if( PlayerNumber() != -1 )
   {
       // Stuff
   }
}

[HotWax]

That too.

[Risen]

There are some functions that can't be easily made to check whole ranges of IDs since they'd override each other. Thing_Hate comes to mind... are there others? If so, I can see why this might be desired.

[Tormentor667]

@Risen - Exactly, I need the usage of Thing_Hate for this to make sure that a number of new spawned enemies start intantly to look for players on the map (actually only "Player" as it is a SP only map)