Finding Killer
 

Is there a way to find, if a player dies, who killed the player?

No. You will have to code something yourself.

Would be helpful if there was a reference to the object of the PKer passed or something D:

Use triggerAction() to send the account information of the player hurting another player to the player getting hurt then whenever that player dies, simply read the account sent for the person that last hit him to read who he was killed by.

If you're using default? Not really. If you're persistent, you can add a weapon that duplicates default HD without the actual HD, and simply use it to detect who is hitting you.

I was wondering this myself when I was making a Classic-Mode for Zodiac CTF.

Stefan should/could add an event on the serverside, I'd imagine this wouldn't be that hard because the server already handles the adding of player.kills + player.deaths.

function onPlayerKilled(killer_obj) { }

I found this, and figured I could use this idea except instead of using onweaponfired, use onkeydown, keypress = "s". Although, if someone wouldnt mind helping sort through this to get to just the part that has to deal with the radius of the player, and marking who the player killed... xD

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Don't check if the player presses the 's' key, use the keydown() value just in case the player alters their default control configuration (via the F3 menu).


Also, what I said a few posts above still holds merit. Send a triggerAction() when the player swings their sword and have whoever they hit catch the action and work from there.

I would rather use onKeyPressed and compare the keyname with the keyname(#) function, then running a constant timeout checking for keydown(#).

Good:

Bad:

I figure that:

Would suffice as well.

I don't know why, but I prefer:

Thats the problem im having, dont know how to find who hit/killed the player. Have no idea where to even start.

Theoretically we could add an event for it, something like onPlayerKilled or so. Right now the only way to detect would be to check if the kills increased, although that doesn't tell you who killed who.

how does era do it then?

edit, nvm i understand thats the only way to do it inside an event.

Actually, emulating the default hit detection works as well. It won't replace the default systems though, it'll be there just to check if you hit a player, and if so, set some kind of last attacker flag on him.


Custom system :oo:

How do you check to see if the players kills increased? That would be sufficient for what Im doing possibly.

Also, stefan, adding an even for that would probably be very very helpful to the entire graal community.

It'd be better to pass who has last hit the player(though I'm not objecting to passing also who last killed the player).

I would personally think if you were looking for who killed a player, better to pass through who killed it, rather than checking the hit each time to see if the player died.

But sometimes it'd be nice to check who hit a player. Therefor, you can kill two birds with one stone by checking when the player dies who last killed them(which undoubtfully would be the last player who hit them). Like I said though, I wouldn't be against both. Default needs more support like this.

anyone?

Loop?

It's not hard to detect who you were killed by if your bow and bomb (unless you use putbomb) have custom scripts for compatibility with gmaps.

I'd imagine if you had a function to find the closest player with the sword animation within range when you the player dies, that would pretty much pinpoint the killer, but it's not a perfect detection method and could produce false positives.

I.e:

Does onWasH!t() return any useful parameters?
Edit: WOW, censorship FTL

For playerhurt, does this still apply in gs2?

Because if so, you could use a simple code in the weapon every single player has that reads if the player gets hurt and player.hearts==0, or use onPlayerDies(), then go to a
since the person who hurt the player SHOULD be closest.

Would that work? Am I correct? Or is my logic wrong?

What if you get killed over range or if you are grouped by several players? (:

Ok, well again I ask if anyone knows how to see if the players kils increase? Wouldn't even know what variable to use for that.

player.kills

you could shove it in a timeout in the clientside and send a triggeraction to the server whenever it increases, but it seems messy and likely to fail to me.

onPlayerDies() is only clientside correct? or can it be serverside?

Try it and find out :P

detects clientside :)