[Lua] Saving Values per player?

[thetrueman2]

Hello Mmowned

I'm abit stuck on a luascript im working on. The idea is to create 2 objects, which are spawned in Booty bay and Everlook. the player has to follow hints throughout azeroth to reach the other object, and if both of them are clicked the player gets a collectors item as reward.

There is a problem tho.. if a player (we'll call him player 1) clicks the object in BB, and another player (player 2) clicks the object in everlook player 2 gets the reward straight away, because player 1 has set the local value for BB to 1 for "has clicked it"

is there a way to save the values per player, or a workaround so everyone has to click both?

teh code:

local GO_Explore1_ID = 17189225
local GO_Explore2_ID = 17189226
local ClickedObject1 = 0
local ClickedObject2 = 0

function ClickObject_Everlook(pGameObject, Event, Player)
  if (Player:GetItemCount(870263) >= 1) then
    Player:SendBroadcastMessage("You already have the reward!")
  else
   ClickedObject1 = 1
     Player:SendBroadcastMessage("Congratulations! A Pet has been added to your inventory.")
       if (ClickedObject1 == 1) and (ClickedObject2 == 1) then
         Player:AddItem(870263, 1)
       end
  end
end

function ClickObject_Bootybay(pGameObject, Event, Player)
  if (Player:GetItemCount(870263) >= 1) then
    Player:SendBroadcastMessage("You already have the reward!")
  else
   ClickedObject2 = 1
     Player:SendBroadcastMessage("Congratulations! A Pet has been added to your inventory.")
       if (ClickedObject1 == 1) and (ClickedObject2 == 1) then
         Player:AddItem(870263, 1)
       end
  end
end

RegisterGameObjectEvent(GO_Explore1_ID, 4, "ClickObject_Everlook")
RegisterGameObjectEvent(GO_Explore2_ID, 4, "ClickObject_Bootybay")

Ofcourse +rep to those that try to help

thanks!

[stoneharry]

top of script:

local PlayerA = nil

function blablabla
if playerA == nil then
playerA = Player
end
do stuff
end

then later on / in same function if you want to check if it is the same player:

if playerA ~= Player then
do stuff
end

since the variable we assigned can not be the variable that is using the gossip menu.

If you want to make it for lots of people, save the players guid (Player:GetGuid()) into a table then if the guid isn't in the table do stuff, if his guide is in the table then don't do stuff. >.>

Hope that explains a solution ish, I only skim read your post!

[Dynashock]

I'd recommend the table solution as it would support an unlimited amount of players (well, until you run out of memory eh). You can either use the player's guid, as stone pointed out, or the userdata cast to a string, like tostring(Player).

[thetrueman2]

I've never used tables before with lua, so that's going to be.. interesting
but I guess there are plenty of tuts out there on how to, so I'll get to work.

+Rep to both (also to stone once I spread some more ><)

thanks alot

[Kirth]

I'd recommend the table solution as it would support an unlimited amount of players (well, until you run out of memory eh). You can either use the player's guid, as stone pointed out, or the userdata cast to a string, like tostring(Player).

If said table get's a bit too stuffed, or when one'd be dealing with a large player base: use of the SQL database would be useful .

Either cache a part of the table, or immediately store the information in the database. (Seperate table?). I think the method for that would be CharDBQuery().