Scripting Language Operators

[Killerdude]

If I remember correctly a boolean exclusive ored with 1 will toggle the boolean. Is there a syntax for that in the Quake Scripting Language? ... || maybe?

Also, will a boolean evaluate out in a conditional operator?

ie)

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local.IsFanOn = 1

if (IsFanOn){    // <----- will this evaluate as true??
       Do Something}

Thanks in advance
KD

[bdbodger]

0 = false 1= true thats why you see a lot of threads that have while(1) in them to create a continuous loop .

if (local.IsFanOn) will work variables have to be game local or level variables .

[jv_map]

You can use ^ for bitwise xor. Or a combination of && and ||:

if(local.a ^ local.b)

if((local.a || local.b) && !(local.a && local.b))

[Rookie One.pl]

You basically get the same operators you have in C. Only that the bitwise ones sometimes do not work as intended.

[ViPER]

for the scribes Please

what does ^ do ?

[Killerdude]

for the scribes Please

what does ^ do ?

Thats the answer I was looking for. Thanks JV
^ is the bitwise operator for Xor (Exclusive Or). The truth table for Xor is as follows:

• 0 xor 0 = 0
  0 xor 1 = 1
  1 xor 0 = 1
  1 xor 1 = 0

So what this tells you is that you only get a true (1) when one of the booleans is true and not both. A practical application of this is to toggle a boolean.

ie)

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local.isfanon = 0 // Fan is off
local.isfanon^1 // Fan has been toggled on
local.isfanon^1 // Fan has been toggled off

The first xor replaces typing:

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if (local.isfanon){
       local.isfanon = 0}
else{local.isfanon = 1}

The plus side is its less to type, the minus side is its not clear to someone that is unfarmillar with the xor operator. Then again thats what comments are for.

Anyone please correct me if I am wrong

[Rookie One.pl]

Anyone please correct me if I am wrong

I hope you don't mind if I do.

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local.isfanon = 0 // Fan is off
local.isfanon^1 // Fan has been toggled on
local.isfanon^1 // Fan has been toggled off

This code won't work as it makes statements without effect. Those last 2 lines are just values that are not assigned to anything and will probably break your script (I think the interpreter expects every statement to either perform a value assignment or an event call). What you probably meant is:

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local.isfanon ^= 1

...which performs an assignment of the current local.isfanon value xored with 1 to local.isfanon. At least it would do so in C. It is equal to writing:

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local.isfanon = local.isfanon ^ 1

However, the MoHAA script interpreter is somewhat messy and I'm not sure this language construct is supported by it (although *=, += and -= - the multiplication, addition and subtraction assignments do work). So in case it does not work, I would rather suggest using:

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local.isfanon = !local.isfanon

Which will do exactly the thing you want - ! is the boolean negation operator.

[jv_map]

^= won't work, ! will do exactly what you want

[Killerdude]

Thanks for the correction. It has been a while since I have done any c/c++. Adding scripting to my map is helping me to remember how much fun it is !!! I just wish there was a debugger like a c compiler has.

[Rookie One.pl]

Yep, that's one thing I used to miss, too.