GetEntityClass Failure (and jetpacks)

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:18 pm

My protect-the-flag mode code has progressed somewhat, but I'm having trouble with a side objective that starts out like this:

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[code]	OnFlagPickUp(

		function(flag, picker)

			print("Ok, OnFlagPickUp works....")

			if GetEntityClass(picker) == "imp_inf_dark_trooper" then

				print("Ok, class of the picker has been verified....")[/code][/size]

I get this in the error log:

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Ok, OnFlagPickUp works....

Message Severity: 2
.\Source\LuaCallbacks_Mission.cpp(635)
Entity "0" not found

So it seems that OnFlagPickUp works, but GetEntityClass doesn't. I've tried variations like GetEntityClassName, GetEntityClass(GetCharacterUnit(picker)), GetCharacterClass, and GetCharacterUnit. None seem to work. Why is that?

And another little thing related to it but not to the code: is there any way to allow units to use jetpacks when they have the flag?

Aman/Pinguin · Post by **Aman/Pinguin** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:32 pm

I'm not sure why but I never used GetEntityClass(picker), I kinda remember something was wrong with it.

GetCharacterClass(player) works though. It doesn't use the name of the class, but the class index (or whatever its called).
Example from Tuskencamp:

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[code]OnCharacterSpawn(

	function(player)

			if StopEEUnits == true then

				print("StopEEUnits is working!")

				if GetCharacterClass(player)  == 8 and GetCharacterTeam(player) == CIS then

				print("haha_inf_penguin check is working!")

					AddReinforcements(CIS, 1 )

					KillObject( GetCharacterUnit(player) )

					SelectCharacterClass(player, "cis_inf_trooper")

					SpawnCharacter(player, GetPathPoint("penguin_spawn", 0))

				elseif GetCharacterClass(player)  == 8 and GetCharacterTeam(player) == REP then

					AddReinforcements(REP, 1 )

					KillObject( GetCharacterUnit(player) )

					SelectCharacterClass(player, "rep_inf_ep3_rifleman")

					SpawnCharacter(player, GetPathPoint("golem_spawn", 0))

				end

			else return

			end

	end

			)[/code][/size]

So, assuming the dark trooper is the 6th class in the IMP team, I would change your code to this:

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[code]OnFlagPickUp(

      function(flag, picker)

         print("Ok, OnFlagPickUp works....")

         if GetCharacterClass(picker)  == 5 and GetCharacterTeam(picker) == IMP then

            print("Ok, class of the picker has been verified....")[/code][/size]

Post by **Maveritchell** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:35 pm

Aman/Pinguin wrote:I'm not sure why but I never used GetEntityClass(picker), I kinda remember something was wrong with it.

Nothing's wrong with it, it just doesn't have a string output. You need to match up a GetEntityClass to a FindEntityClass, a la:

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GetEntityClass(etc) == FindEntityClass("ex_type_entity")

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:15 pm

Thanks! Any idea on the jetpack problem? I found nothing in any odfs and luas I searched, so I assume it's a hard-coded thing.

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:31 pm

You can give everyone a jet pack but with no fuel or recharge rate. When a unit gets the flag, up its recharge rate. When a unit drops the flag, but it back at zero. I think that would work...

Frisbeetarian · Post by **Frisbeetarian** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:02 pm

That shouldn't work. When a jedi get's a flag, it has no fuel or recharge rate and still can't use its jump.

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:56 pm

So the lack of jetpacks while carrying a flag is a hardcoded thing? Maybe you could increase the jump distance and add an effect to the unit upon flag pickup to simulate a jump pack similar to the Dark Trooper's...but it's a messy workaround.

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:56 pm

Jump distance is a class property, so that wouldn't work. I assumed the can't fly with a flag was an ODF property, but I don't know those too well. There is the bug that if you get a flag while flying you can keep flying until you land, but that doesn't really help you...

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:26 pm

If there were only one unit and it were SP, that'd be all right, that it's a class property. Still, it seems these workarounds are too messy to look good.

And I don't recall any ODF property dealing with the jetpack removal while carrying flags either.

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