Help Adding Difficulty Setting in UGX v1.0.3? :D in Scripting

Created on: March 13, 2014, 01:28:00 pm

ProGamerzFTW
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EDIT: I got it working but if you know a way to allow the vars to waittill("ugxm_voting_complete"); inside _zombiemode instead of moving some of them to ugxm_init, feel free to tell me.

Ok, I pretty much got everything up and working in the vote menus (tested with prints) but how would I be able to add a

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level waittill("ugxm_voting_complete");

to some zombie vars?

i tried putting a

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level thread hankey_difficulty();

and then tried putting this in init_levelvars() but didnt work as that people start off with 0 points with all 3 difficulty settings

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hankey_difficulty()
{
	level waittill("ugxm_voting_complete");
	if(GetDvarint( "hankey_difficulty" ) == 1)//Easy
	{
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				1.5 );
        set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				150 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				500		);
	}
	else if(GetDvarint( "hankey_difficulty" ) == 2)//Medium
	{
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				 1   );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				350 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				250		);
	}
	else if(GetDvarint( "hankey_difficulty" ) == 3)//Hard
	{
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				0.2 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				650 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				0		);
	}
}

however, when i remove the waittill, it almost works as intended, if i set the difficulty, it requires a restart to take effect.

Any help is appreciated.

edit: i tried changing things to level.ugxm_settings["hankey_difficulty"].
almost everything seems to work, the zombie health changes like it should, but the players still only starts with 0 points.

edit2: omg, i think i got it working O_O

edit3: yes indeed it appears to be working, i need to test in multiplayer though.

ive moved the three vars into ugxm_init, and made the player.score wait till the vote is complete, seems to work fine.

Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 01:05:55 am by ProGamerzFTW

Reply #1 on: March 13, 2014, 10:17:36 pm

treminaor
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Quote from: ProGamerzFTW on March 13, 2014, 01:28:00 pm

EDIT: I got it working but if you know a way to allow the vars to waittill("ugxm_voting_complete"); inside _zombiemode instead of moving some of them to ugxm_init, feel free to tell me.

It's a level notify, so as long as your waittil is in a threaded function which was called before ugxm_init (so, before _zombiemode.gsc), you will catch the notify.

If you need something to happen right after the game starts there are more ways to do it than this notify. Explaining your purpose would allow me to be more specific.

Reply #2 on: March 14, 2014, 12:34:19 am

ProGamerzFTW
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Quote from: treminaor on March 13, 2014, 10:17:36 pm

It's a level notify, so as long as your waittil is in a threaded function which was called before ugxm_init (so, before _zombiemode.gsc), you will catch the notify.

If you need something to happen right after the game starts there are more ways to do it than this notify. Explaining your purpose would allow me to be more specific.

in ugxm_init, the level.ugxm_settings["difficulty"] is defined to 1, 2 or 3 depended on what is voted, which works. What I've tried to do is thread a function in init_levelvars, and have that function waittil the voting is complete! as putting a waittill within the init_levelvars causes problems, and when the voting is complete, my debug prints is displayed correctly, but zombie vars aren't being set.

heres the function

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zombie_difficulty()
{	
	level waittill("ugxm_voting_complete");
	if(level.ugxm_settings["difficulty"] == 1)
	{
		iprintln("^3Picked Original");
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				2 );
        set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				150 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				500		);
	}
	else if(level.ugxm_settings["difficulty"] == 2)
	{
		iprintln("^3Picked Hard");
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				 1   );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				350 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				250		);
	}
	else if(level.ugxm_settings["difficulty"] == 3)
	{
		iprintln("^3Picked Legendary");
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_spawn_delay", 				0.2 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_health_start", 				650 );
		set_zombie_var( "zombie_score_start", 				0		);
	}
}

Edit: I tried adding level thread maps\_zombiemode::zombie_difficulty(); in the vote beneath where the difficulty is selected, removed the waittill in the zombie_difficulty function and it works fine, not sure if its the preferred method.

still dont know it doesnt work with the other method i said. lol

Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 01:27:08 am by ProGamerzFTW



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