Gadget: player has taken the lead with xxx kills

[Jools]

In OTA there was a message when a player had taken the lead with anumber of kills. Any way to make a similar functionality here? Is this information stored globally?

It was a fun info, because it reminds you to be offensive (most kills wins) and it gives a good picture of what's happening in the game.

Edit: link to gadget

[manolo_]

hi jools,

there is an option in iceui, where u have this player bar (with ressurces,...), there is a tab where u could see the kills and losses. so i assume it should be really easy to generate a message for it

[Caydr]

Haha, I just remembered this!

Personally I would love to see an actual textual announcement every time a player takes the lead, with a 5sec or so spam guard. These little touches are what make a game look polished.

[Niobium]

Spring.GetTeamUnitStats
( number teamID ) ->
nil | number killed,
number died,
number capturedBy,
number capturedFrom,
number received,
number sent

[Jools]

Here, whoever wants can include it in his mod or map. It only needs a global variable called leader, and it should be called from unitDestroyed function.

http://pastebin.com/4pvRDrdv

[Jools]

It doesnt have a spamguard yet, because I dont remember it to have been spammy in ota, since it only announces when leader changes, not on every kill. Of course in a long standoff it may be spammy.

[zwzsg]

This is very wrong:

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for i,v in pairs(Spring.GetTeamList()) do
	tID = Spring.GetTeamList()[v]
	if v > 0 then  -- a check because for some reason when i = 1, then v = 0 and teamID = nil

It should just be:

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for _,tID in ipairs(Spring.GetTeamList()) do

Because in for i,v in pairs(...)
i is the key and v is the value
So you don't Spring.GetTeamList()[v] but Spring.GetTeamList()
Except Spring.GetTeamList() is already stored in v, so simply use v

Also, table returned by the engine often gets an extra field .n that store their size,
So better use ipairs, which only loops through field indexed by 1 to n, instead of pairs, which would loops through all field and would catch that weird n field.


Anyway, since you also had trouble getting the player names, I retyped the whole gadget (faster than explaining, but less helpful.)

[MidKnight]

I have an improvement request!

Player has taken the lead messages should also play a random sound file from Quake!
DOMINATING!
WICKED SICK!

[Jools]

There's nothing wrong with zwzsg's version, but I wanted it to be exactly like in ota, and I added a sound too, so here's a little bit more refined version.

[aegis]

that's a gadget
and we can't turn it off
and you want to put it in maps?! D:

[manolo_]

why not as widget?

[zwzsg]

Because widgets can not know when units die out of player's view.

[Karl]

I have an improvement request!

Player has taken the lead messages should also play a random sound file from Quake!
DOMINATING!
WICKED SICK!

"TROLLING ACTION!"
"M-M-M-MEGA TROLL!"
"C-C-C-OMBO BREAK!"

That one should better on the current spring players...

[smoth]

I'll consider adding it to gundam jools.

[Jools]

Go ahead.

[smoth]

I have not had the chance to look at your code but I can look into adding a type of unit breakdown for the list if you would like :)

[zwzsg]

a type of unit breakdown

o_O

It just count kills, dude, rambling about unit breakdown list is irrelevant.

[smoth]

Why not? People love pictures and numbers.

It opens up things like end of game stuff like ZAKU BUTCHER as an award kids love shit like that. My college buddies used to lol about the bs stats and awards at the end of smash brothers matches. So why not!?!

[Jools]

Only the imagination is the limit of what we can achieve.

My next step would be to make a rank list, like when you pressed F4 in OTA. The counts are already there, all that's needed is a GUI. Someone requested this also.

[smoth]

That will be easy. (no worries I am a huge fan of the kill board as well mang :)