Reputation gossip script

[thetrueman2]

Hey Mmowned

I'm a bit stuck working on a lua script. I'm attempting to make a gossip script that trades reputation for an amount of rep tokens (the player can fill in the amount they want to trade in a code box). I'm kinda stuck however, as I was only able to find SetStanding(faction, amount) in the lua engine core to change reputation values with. So what I'm trying to do is getting the player's current rep in a number value, and set the new reputation with a formula. like so:

if (intid == 99990) then
 local Amount_Code = tonumber(code)
 local Standing_Number = Player:GetStanding(Faction_ID)
   if (Amount_Code ~= nil) and (Amount_Code ~= "") then
     if (Player:GetItemCount(180928) >= Amount_Code) then
       Player:RemoveItem(180928, Amount_Code)
       RepAdd = Standing_Number + (Token_Rep * Amount_Code)
       AddedRep = Token_Rep * Amount_Code
     end
   end
  Player:SetStanding(Faction_ID, RepAdd)
  Player:SendBroadcastMessage("Added "..AddedRep.." reputation with the faction of your choice at the cost of "..Amount_Code.." Rep tokens.")
end

my problem is in the part that is supposed to get the player's reputation. I'm using Player:GetStanding(Faction_ID) to get a numeric value, but it keeps returning nil values regardless of the player's reputation causing the script to fail because it can't do math with a nil value. I've tried printing a number of factions to the console, but all of them returned nil. I'm running arcemu r3462 and using luahyparc as an engine.

any help/suggestion would be very much appreciated!

[iWoW-Programming]

If I were you i would look into that command and see if it is functional, it may just be unimplemented.

[thetrueman2]

Thanks for the reply. I have looked into the lua engine core, In UnitFunctions.h it shows the following bit:

	int GetStanding(lua_State * L, Unit * ptr)
	{
		TEST_PLAYER()
		uint32 faction = luaL_checkint(L,1);
		if (faction)
			lua_pushinteger(L, TO_PLAYER(ptr)->GetStanding(faction));
		return 0;
	}

I can't read C that well however, so I'm not sure if it's functional.

[iWoW-Programming]

That seems to be completely in order

Maybe check the object Player? Try taking that function out and replacing it with a defined # and see if the script works.

EDIT: okay i tried this and i also got nil no matter what, so i have no idea, i definitely think its an LUA Engine problem though.

[thetrueman2]

Too bad, seems I'll have to abandon this project then

thanks for your help tho! +rep to you