isPlayer question

[alleycat 28]

Some questions about server/client locality:

1.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isPlayer

Can this command be used like this, without an object?

for example in the init.sqf calling:

if (isPlayer) then....

2. If I wanted to delay the game start until the server is done with some scripts called in init.sqf, how to do that?

init.sqf

if (isPlayer) then {
call { [lol] execVM "player_hud.sqf"; };
};
if (isServer) then {


_handle1 = execVM "script1.sqf" ;
_handle2 = execVM "script2.sqf" ;
};

3. How to make sure the isPlayer command only targets the local player of this machine? I dont want JIP players to restart these scripts for other players

Edited February 3, 2013 by alleycat

[cuel 25]

if (local player) then {
}

or

if (!isDedicated) then {
}

[Horner 13]

Errr, I've never used isPlayer before, but I generally use this to check if a certain object is a player.

if (_obj in playableUnits) then {};

[alleycat 28]

I just edited the first post including some more questions, did not see your posts. What I fear is that these server/client switches might silently fail and carpetbomb the server with scripts

---------- Post added at 04:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:36 PM ----------

if (local player) then {
call { [player] execVM "player_hud.sqf"; };
};
if (isServer) then {


_handle1 = execVM "script1.sqf" ;
_handle2 = execVM "script2.sqf" ;
};

Modified the code following your suggestions. Going to test that on a dedicated

Edited February 3, 2013 by alleycat

[alleycat 28]

Why do all scripts in the init fail on JIP when they look like this:

//Anything inside this is skipped on JIP
if (local player) then {};

//This fails too in init.sqf, without being inside any player/server condition
player addAction

[Muzzleflash 111]

Most likely because player object has not been set yet when you do the local check. Anything objNull is never local.

[alleycat 28]

That would explain why re-joining makes it work. Is there a way to get it to work on first load with a delay so the script starts a few seconds after the game is running?

[cuel 25]

waitUntil {isDedicated || !isNull player};

[alleycat 28]

Why isDedicated?

---------- Post added at 07:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:56 PM ----------

Why isDedicated?

Also, I got all the jip stuff working by using

		while {isNull player} do
	{
		diag_log text "(PLAYER ISNULL) waiting..";
		sleep 1;
	};	

However on the very first start it still fails to run scripts properly (clients that join the server when it starts, the opposite of JIP basically)

[cuel 25]

So a dedicated server doesn't get stuck in the init (it doesn't have a player object, so it's trying to waitUntil objNull is never null, which is never.)

It's the same as writing

if (!isDedicated) then {
  waitUntil {!isNull player};
  // more code that should only run on clients/listen servers
};

For your second question I'd guess something else is wrong. Players that are in the game from start (not JiP) are never null.