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Client Damage Notification

by Peter Simard · in Torque Game Engine · 09/09/2005 (4:53 pm) · 5 replies

I am trying to trigger an event on my client when it recieves a damage update on an object. Im putting the following code in void ShapeBase::unpackUpdate

if (stream->readFlag()) {
      mDamage = mClampF(stream->readFloat(DamageLevelBits) * mDataBlock->maxDamage, 0.f,  DataBlock->maxDamage);
        [b]Con::printf("Executed");
        Con::executef(mDataBlock,2,"onDamageUpdate",scriptThis());[/b]

When I run it in single player mode the onDamageUpdate event triggers fine... but when I run it as a dedicated client I see the "Executed" message in the console, but the onDamageUpdate does not fire. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way of accomplishing this?
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
09/09/2005 (7:29 pm)
Maybe you are expecting it to call your-object-name's method instead of Player::something?

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#2
09/09/2005 (7:46 pm)
I am defining the function as:

function Armor::onDamageUpdate(%this)

It works just fine single player so I know its defined right. It just doesnt want to call when running as a dedicated client.

Associate Kyle Carter
#3
09/09/2005 (9:19 pm)
The dedicated client doesn't know to call it Armor - names like that aren't sent over the wire. Try Player::onCollision.

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#4
09/09/2005 (9:58 pm)
No go. I replaced the function with:

function Player::onDamageUpdate(%this)

Its not firing in single player now either. Would I need to change the way the function is called? I tried replacing mDataBlock with Player but I get "error C2275: 'Player' : illegal use of this type as an expression". Sorry for questions, im still pretty new at this :/

Associate Kyle Carter
#5
09/11/2005 (7:06 pm)
MDatablock.. Hmm, some maybe PlayerDataBlock or whatever the player datablock class is called?