How to check for a player slot?

[alleycat 28]

How to check for a player slot?

The only way I found was to name the object in the editor and act on that, but the game keeps showing errors about it not existing if that player slot is not taken.

if (!(isnil b")) then
{
if (b1 == player) then
{

};
};

[HazJ 1289]

if (!isNil "b1") then {
if (b1 == player) then {
}:
};

waitUntil {!isNil "b1"};
if (isPlayer b1) then {
}:

Hope these help. :)

Dirty Haz

[alleycat 28]

Thanks, however it does not work in multiplayer. When the b1 unit is not used by a player it throws an error. Is there really no way to check for some things existence without the game throwing errors?

[HazJ 1289]

Yes. These should work:

waitUntil {!isNil "b1"};

if (isNil "b1") exitWith {};

if (isNil "b1") then {b1 = player};

Dirty Haz

[alleycat 28]

Thanks, exitwith fixed the problem

[k0rd 3]

as an alternative to naming the slots, you can iterate though an array returned by playableUnits

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playableUnits

[alleycat 28]

Is it possible to check what slot/object the LOCAL player is? I think the solution above only checks for wether an object exists.

[SilentSpike 84]

Just use "player":

if (player == b1) then {

};

Since player only refers to the local player.

[k0rd 3]

if (isServer) then{
{
if (isPlayer _x) then {
//do something - _x refers to a player 
};
}forEach playableUnits;
};

[SilentSpike 84]

That won't check for the local player though

[k0rd 3]

That won't check for the local player though

if you are checking for a local player:

{
if (player == _x) then {
//_x is the local player - add what to do to _x here
};
}foreach playableUnits;

[alleycat 28]

Thanks, but I still cant get the part to work that checks for what player slot a player selected.

[Belbo 462]

Thanks, but I still cant get the part to work that checks for what player slot a player selected.

You still need to name your units for that and check for

if (!isNil "p1") then {
    if (player == p1) then {
         yourcode
    };
};

otherwise you have no option to check for the player being in a specific slot/playing a specific unit.

[alleycat 28]

yay thanks, I think that should work

[k0rd 3]

if you would have listed all these criteria in the first post, this would have been a much faster exercise - just sayin

[thy_ 164]

On 5/17/2014 at 3:56 PM, Belbo said:

You still need to name your units for that and check for

 

if (!isNil "p1") then {
    if (player == p1) then {
         yourcode
    };
};

 

 

otherwise you have no option to check for the player being in a specific slot/playing a specific unit.

 

Thanks, @Belbo

Finally something that works here!

if (!isNil "playerName") then														// if the string (unit player name) exist, so...
{
    if (player == playerName) then 													// if the player in initPlayerLocal.sqf is playerName, so... 
    { 
     	//code
    };
};