Assigning objects to players

#1 I just started my C++ class

could you use if statement

if (%player1)
this inventory
else (%player2)
this inventory

just an Idea, I still learning

#2 I'm not sure that would work.

I have seperate player.cs files for each of the players. Each one has its own player datablock, defined by PlayerBody1, PlayerBody2, PlayerBody3.

The client side GUI allows you to select which player you want to use and puts them in game. However I'm not sure you can use the datablock to define who gets what objects assigned to them.

Maybe I need to define a class for each of the players and define it that way.

#3 Should be fairly similar to what I do mounting guns on the selected ship.

For my game I use a seperate file called setup_ships.cs, which i guess can be aded to your game.cs.

So in the function GameConnection::createPlayer(%this, %spawnPoint, %shipType) I create my Ship... Yours will just be a Player:

// human player!
		%player = new FlyingVehicle()
		{
			dataBlock = %shipType;
			//dataBlock = ScoutShip;
			//dataBlock = InterceptorShip;
			//dataBlock = DroneCarrierShip;
			client = %this;
		};
		MissionCleanup.add(%player);

Then further down after you've set the Transform, you just do a case statement. Here's an extract from mine:

%ShipType = %player.getDataBlock().getName();
   
   switch$(%ShipType)
   {
      case "FighterShip":
      
         //Primary
         %player.incInventory(Pulsar, 1);
         %player.incInventory(PulsarAmmo, PulsarAmmo.maxInventory);
         %player.use(Pulsar);	
         
         //Secondary
         %player.incInventory(ThunderLauncher,1);
         %player.incInventory(ThunderLauncherAmmo, ThunderLauncherAmmo.maxInventory);
         %player.use(ThunderLauncher);

      case "AssaultShip":
      
         //Primary 
         %player.incInventory(AssaultCannon,1);
         %player.incInventory(AssaultCannonAmmo, AssaultCannonAmmo.maxInventory);
         %player.use(AssaultCannon);
         
         //Secondary 
..
.

Hope that helps

#4 Hi James Laker.

This is big help - thanks. I had something like that with the switching, but without the key components ,getDataBlock() and getName so I was not far off - well, maybe by a mile :)

#5 I do this in a resource I made if wanna look at it. www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=11733

#6 Thanks MB. I used your resource in a previous version of our game and forgot about it, it will come in handy as a reference, when I implement teams. Can this resource be easily tied into a gui selection at startup instead of in the game as an observer then joining?