Replay mission check

[lexx 1412]

Sup folks,

 

the thread title might be a bit strange, but I actually don't really know how to sum it up in short...

 

Anyway, my question is: Can we check if a player is playing a (campaign) mission "for the first time" and isn't using the replay option? Background is, I am saving certain mission states in global variables, which works fine- but if the player would replay one of the earlier missions, the variables obviously would be saved again, therefore affecting and potentially breaking stuff in later missions. Right now I have no idea how I could circumvent it other than "if var = nil then..." which is shitty, as the player might as well finished the mission already once and now reverted back... and isn't just replaying it.

 

Anyone got any clues?

[jshock 513]

You could save certain "flag" type variables to the profileNamespace of the player, and just check to see if certain flags are true/false before overwriting any data.

[lexx 1412]

I don't see how this could help. Thing is, I want to set the variables again if the player is restarting a mission-- but not if he just replays it. With going a pure variable-way I see no solution there.

[jshock 513]

Here is some simply straightforward code as to what I'm thinking, but maybe I'm just not understanding completely what you mean:

fnc_getMissionVariables =
{
	_vars = [];
	_profileVars = ["checkpoint","rallypoint","assualt","lastStand"];
	{
		_vars pushBack (profileNamespace getVariable [_x,false]);
	} forEach _profileVars;
	_vars;
};


if (profileNamespace getVariable [firstMissionHasBeenPlayed,false]) then
{
	_vars = [] call fnc_getMissionVariables;
	[_vars] call fnc_startMission;
}
else
{
	[] call fnc_startNewMission;
};