playerscount
 

is kindof buggy for me, it is giving me two different variables for players...
when used clientsided, it counts me (1) and I think it is also counting two npcs with showcharacter; so that's 3
serverside its giving me 1, which is the correct number
Could something please be done to make playerscount clientsided work right?

Re: playerscount
 

No, because plaerscount is a serverside variable. Use saves.

playerscount isnt only a serverside var, if you could just do with(players[index]) then there would be no use to use players[index].x which I need to use since constantly accessing serverside from a clientside script using weapons is laggy

Can't you just use a distinguishing characteristic (like an id of -1 or whatever they have) to filter out the NPCs?

thank you, I had forgotten about players[index].id

That doesn't work anymore - even showcharacter NPCs have a positive ID. Unfortunatly.
Use strlen(#n(i))>0 or something like that. I was thinking of players[i]fullhearts>0 but I fear that doesn't work online (client-side).

Well, there's bound to be some characteristic feature that you can use. Like an #a of "" or whatever.

Can't read #a(index)

Still? I coulda sworn Stefan made it so that we could. Guess I must be thinking of something else.

for(a=0;a<playerscount;a++){
if(players[a].id!=-1){
worked for me (and #n wouldnt work if an npc was given a nickname with setcharprop #n)

filter the npcs using
if (!players[i].hearts=0) { } //not npc

players[...].id never worked for me. At least not offline.

players[...].hearts is worse than checking the nickname. Many showcharacter NPCs are using hearts.

On client-side the showcharacter npcs can be accessed like players. That's an old feature that has been added because for graphical things npcs and players are like the same. It is still helpful sometimes, on graal2002 we use it for displaying the hp bar for all players and monsters.

On server-side its not possible, only players are in the playerlist because players and npcs are quite different, most scripts that want to access players dont want to do stuff with showcharacter npcs.

I will check the id thing, normally it should be -1 for showcharacter npcs (when accessed as player)

I think it is currently using the npcs[..].id for it...

I'm off-topic now, but how do you hide the default hearts and spar rating display over the players?

npcs can have hearts guy

Actually, I did some testing, it seems to be taking the NPC id and %ing it by 32767 or so.

Of course, when I said it, nobody listened...^_~

i mean if they don't use hearts on npcs and use another variable for hearts.

o_O what kindof level would have >32767 npcs

a gmap?

which (i dont think) are enabled on classic? that would have to be a huge gmap to get that many npcs o.O I wonder if the 2k2 gmaps even have that many...

Why shouldn't they being enabled? I can even use them offline. I never tried to use them on Classic, because the old arrows wouldn't work anymore.

different kinds of g-servers (now why does this have to remain cencered =/), only server I have gotten gmaps to work great on is 2k1

?
Um, it's playerid, not npc id - so the question should be when will there ever be more than 32767 players on the server.

Now I tested it again (offline), and the players[..].id was -1. So it is working.
But I remember it not working, and I couldn't read it anywhere in the newfeatures that it was fixed... Strange. :confused: