Multiboards

[Zobber]

I cant figure out what im doing wrong.

http://n.domaindlx.com/Zobber/war3/multiboards.JPG

I want that a multiboard is to be created for every player.
What am i doing wrong?

 

[NRinpun]

Well I can see four things wrong with this situation.

1) What is in that for loop? You didn't open it to show if what was in it could potentially do something for the multiboard.

2) You want to set a multiboard variable array with a placement for the player number of picked player. Don't know if that's the issue, but things might get a bit hazy using (last created multiboard), which will only work perfectly when you're creating one and only one multiboard.

3) Explain what is wrong with the multiboard.

4) I believe you might need to set the width of the cells. This is always an issue. Count the number of letters you use, plus the spaces, and divide that by 2. That should give you a suitable percent of the screen width.

 

[Zobber]

Hi, sorry for the bad explanation.

The loop contains the information that set the width for the multiboard.

I am only seeing ONE multiboard when i am playing. I want a multiboard for every player playing.

 

[NRinpun]

Wait...one multiboard a person or all multiboards to a person?

 

[Zobber]

I want that every player can see ALL multiboards to see their current situation.

 

[NRinpun]

Hm...according to what you seem to say, the multiboards aren't showing up (obviously) to all players but one. I think this is sort of obvious. You need to find some way of showing the multiboard to only the picked player (I think it's possible). If it's just "show multiboard", that's what you'd use for a general progress such as on an AoS that would explain everything to everybody. If you have THAT coding, the last OR the first (depends how the warcraft engine implements it, I haven't checked how) multiboard should be shown to everyone.

Try setting them to variables and work on trying to show the multiboard to various players. I'll try to get on my other computer later today (and log on as Rinpun) and help out.

 

[NRinpun]

Wait, now you've responded differently

Well hmm. I don't think you can have more than one multiboard displayed on the map and even if you do, it's kind of wacky. Perhaps you could add some more columns and rows or something. Don't forget the variables!

 

[Zobber]

Ok... If it is impossible to see more that one multiboard at a time i want that every player should see their OWN multiboard. (And i need help with that to )

I am really glad that you are helping me. This thing is driving me crazy

PS.
I am now registred.

 

[NRinpun]

Congrats on registering!

Haha, well no problem. I hope I can look on the editor later today and see if I can help you out.

Hmm......

It's not possible to show a board to a player? I'm trying to remember if there's a specific action for that.

And even so, you could always trigger it to press and up arrow key and view a dialog selection of displaying a player's economy. That would be a very cool way of seeing multiple multiboards, if you and I can figure this issue of displaying the multiboard.

 

[leetslay]

I have seen this in a map. Each player can see his own status in his own multiboard. Because the map is protected i couldn't see exactly how he did it. But i could edit the war3map.j file anyway, and it was optimized so that every function and variable was named aA or something like that, to save space.

Anyway, I know it's got something to do with GetLocalPlayer()... but more than that is unknown to me. I'm gonna see if I can get out more from the functions in the map.

The map's title is D&D 3.5 - Calim River (0.48)

 

[leetslay]

this here works:

multiboard array Multiboards
force Players

Function Init
Events
  Map Init
Actions

Player Group - Add all players currently playing and controlled by users to Players force.
// create multiboards
Player Group - Pick all players in Players
{
    // create multiboard
    if ( Picked Player == GetLocalPlayer() ) then
        // Create multiboard here
        set Multiboards[1 + (Player number of Picked Player)] = Last Created Multiboard
        // Show multiboard
        // Update multiboard once
    endif
}

Function update multiboard
Events
  Every X seconds
Actions
  Player Group - Pick every player in Players
  {
      if ( Picked Player == GetLocalPlayer())
        //UPDATE MULTIBOARD HERE
      endif
  }