Team-based projectile help

[Ghastly]

For QNA, I'm trying to have team-based projectiles (Blue team fires blue blaster bolts, blue-flared rockets, blue lightning, blue railgun shots, etc.), and I already have an idea as to how to do it. I'll try a LoadACS script to check the player's team in Enter and Respawn scripts and give a cooresponding inventory item, which the weapon checks for.

How exactly would I use GetPlayerProperty to check a player's team, and would it mess up in single player? I'll double-check on the Skulltag forums to see if the ZDoom method would work properly in Skulltag, but I don't see too many reasons it wouldn't.

Edit: Ack, I should've checked the wiki more thoroughly first. I meant GetPlayerInfo, and PlayerInfo_Team was the first on the list XD. Thanks anyway!

Edit2: Yeah... Can someone give me an example of a script that checks the activating player's team?

[NewTiberian]

Couldn't be more simple

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 (void)
{
	if(GetPlayerInfo(0, PLAYERINFO_TEAM) != 0) //if the player's team is not the default 0 (blue) they are killed
	{
		Thing_Damage(0, 100, 0);
	}
	else
	{
		//nothing
	}
}

script 2 (void)
{
	if(GetPlayerInfo(0, PLAYERINFO_TEAM) != 1) //if the player's team is not the default 1 (red) they are killed
	{
		Thing_Damage(0, 100, 0);
	}
	else
	{
		//nothing
	}
}

this is stuck to a linedef at the respective team's spawns, so any non blue/red people trying to enter the opposite team's spawn area are killed

EDIT: i made this to show my example at work:

example_team.wad

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try switching around teams and see what happens

[Ghastly]

Thanks, but does 0 really check for the activator, with GetPlayerInfo?

To get information for the player who activated the script, use the PlayerNumber function.

If this is right, how could I use it to get the activator's information, without assigning a PlayerNumber-based TID to everything?

Edit: Hm... It's not working in Skulltag. I started up CTF on that map (after adding team starts), and both teams trigger the killing line. Is there any alternative to GetPlayerInfo I can use to check a player's team?

[NewTiberian]

perhaps you could stick a script to a linedef to find out the team number for blue/red/whatever other teams

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script 1 (void)
{
        SetFont("BIGFONT"); //so you can read it
        print(d:GetPlayerInfo(0, PLAYERINFO_TEAM)); //printing the team number of activator
}

this would be MUCH easier if the skulltag wiki actually had info about the team numbers

EDIT:

Thanks, but does 0 really check for the activator, with GetPlayerInfo?

interesting... i guess not, and the script is only checking the first player that entered the game (who is 0)

you may not have a choice but to assign individual TIDs to each player

[Ghastly]

I just reported the Skulltag problem in Skulltag's internal testing IRC channel, and it was just fixed and will hopefully be in the next version. I just need some way to test in ZDoom, so I know if I'm successful or not.

I'd, also, like to clear up that whole GetPlayerInfo activator thing before I get started on the script itself. Can it check the activator, in spite of that one thing it says on the wiki?

[NewTiberian]

No, i don't think it can, the only way to test it would to do a 2p game and test the scripts then, but i still believe that you may have to assign each player a unique TID

[Ghastly]

Okay, I just rigged this thing up:

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#Include "ZCommon.acs"

Script 1 Enter
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
}

Script 2 Enter
{
If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PlayerInfo_Team) == 0)
	{
	GiveActorInventory(0, "BlueTeamChecker", 1);
	}
Else
	{
	If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PlayerInfo_Team) == 1)
		{
		GiveActorInventory(0, "RedTeamChecker", 1);
		}
	}
}

Script 3 Respawn
{
If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PlayerInfo_Team) == 0)
	{
	GiveActorInventory(0, "BlueTeamChecker", 1);
	}
Else
	{
	If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PlayerInfo_Team) == 1)
		{
		GiveActorInventory(0, "RedTeamChecker", 1);
		}
	}
}

Would Script 1 fire before Script 2? I'm concerned it won't, because my experience with Starcraft triggers is that the effects from one don't take effect before the next can use them.

I already wrote the decorate-side of this (which works perfectly, even, surprisingly, with the hold state weapons), so I just need some way to test it in ZDoom. Is there any mod I can run with this in ZDoom that uses teams?

[NewTiberian]

Script 1 is basically changing EVERYthing that has no TID (0) to the TID of a non existant player (who activated it? not a player)
Script 2 is giving actors with TID 0 the blue team checker and getting the player info of a non existant player (see above
Script 3 is also like this.

You may need a TID reliant, but more modifiable system. if you want, i could try to write a system and PM it's source to you

EDIT: well, this reads rather embarrasingly

[Ghastly]

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Thing_ChangeTID "If oldtid is zero, then whatever activated the script will have its TID changed to newtid."

An Enter script is executed when a player enters the game, so any player that enters the game will get a TID unique to his player number.

[Macil]

Just combine scripts 1 and 2 into one script, there's no reason to have them separate.

[Ghastly]

Er, how would I put an If in the middle of an execution like that? (I'm not all that great with ACS.)

Nevermind, I got it .

[NewTiberian]

An Enter script is executed when a player enters the game, so any player that enters the game will get a TID unique to his player number.

bah, you're right, i forgot the difference between Enter and Open scripts
in that case, it should work fine, but now i'm wondering if there is a way to grab a player's team info using a TID.

[Ghastly]

There is. GetPlayerInfo(TID, InfoType).

[Ghastly]

Okay, I'm still having a massive problem with this:

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#Include "ZCommon.acs"

Script 622 Enter
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 0)
	{
	GiveActorInventory(0, "BlueTeamChecker", 1);
	}
Else
	{
	If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 1)
		{
		GiveActorInventory(0, "RedTeamChecker", 1);
		}
	}
}

Script 623 Respawn
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
If(GetPlayerInfo(1000 + PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 0)
	{
	GiveActorInventory(0, "BlueTeamChecker", 1);
	}
Else
	{
	If(GetPlayerInfo(0, PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 1)
		{
		GiveActorInventory(0, "RedTeamChecker", 1);
		}
	}
}

When it uses ==, it doesn't work at all, but when using != (which I'm guessing means everything except the specified number), it does do something, but gives both teams the one item.

Edit: Okay, odd development: I think the problem lies with Thing_ChangeTID. After a few tests, I discovered that GetPlayerInfo is returning -1 ("If you ask for information about a player who is not in the game, it will return -1.").

I've tried Thing_ChangeTID in a seperate Enter script (lower script number, so it activates first, and even activating the GetPlayerInfo script to make sure of it), but it has the same effect. Any ideas?

[NewTiberian]

I presume the cause of most of the problem is that GetPlayerInfo wants a PlayerNumber, and not a TID.
a simple enter script like so should work:

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script 1 enter
{
	if(GetPlayerInfo(PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 0)
	{
      //commands here (such as giving the player Blue/RedTeamChecker)
	}
	else if(GetPlayerInfo(PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) == 1)
	{
		//commands here
	}
}

you could also replace the condition statements with Case statements, in case multiple teams are involved (more than 2)
(and by work, i mean full stop, it shouldn't need any more tinkering )