counter print question

[7th Es Cyborg]

ok I'm using a local.counter and need to print out the value ingame

how would that script be done with iprintlnbold "You died ( counter here ) times."

this is not the actual useage, but you can see what i need.

[Alcoholic]

i think u need to use some sort of convert string thing. like how the singleplayer maps tell you what key to press to go forward. (m1l1)

[nuggets]

quotes in " and then what ever you like, repeat as necessary

e.g.

iprintlnbold_noloc "This counter is on " level.counter " so hurry your ass up " level.something_else

or

if ( level.die_counter == 1 )
{iprintlnbold_noloc "You died for the 1st time"}
if ( level.die_counter == 2 )
{iprintlnbold_noloc "You died for the 2nd time keep trying though"}
if ( level.die_counter == 3 )
{iprintlnbold_noloc "3rd time now, do you think your a target ???"}
if ( level.die_counter >> 3 )
{iprintlnbold_noloc "For the " level.die_counter "th time, will you STOP DYING!!!"}




for counters use level. rather than local.

[Bjarne BZR]

Or just:

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iprintlnbold "You died " + local.counter + " times."

[nuggets]

some people take all the fun out of scripting

[7th Es Cyborg]

danka

[tltrude]

Some people over script a simple line too.


If you don't want all that clicking with "iprintlnbold_noloc", you can use just "iprintln". That makes it show up on the leftside of the screen in yellow and with no clicking sound.

[jv_map]

Or just:
iprintlnbold "You died " + local.counter + " times."

Sorry but that won't work

Try this:
iprintlnbold ("You died " + local.counter + " times.")

The other one is not allowed since the syntaxis of the iprintln command is the following:
iprintlnbold [string1] [string2] [string3].....

Thus you can type
iprintlnbold "hello " "world"

but not
iprintlnbold "hello " + "world"

If you put it between parens however, it's automatically casted to a string and supplied as the first argument only, instead of multiple.
iprintlnbold ("hello " + "world")

[Bjarne BZR]

Trust jv to slap you on the fingers as soon as you post anything remotely similar to a script
Thanx jv

[Bjarne BZR]

Actually I like nuggets version better, except this is a classical time to use the switch statement:

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switch (level.die_counter)
{
  case 1: {
    iprintlnbold_noloc "You died for the 1st time"
    break
  }
  case 2: {
    iprintlnbold_noloc "You died for the 2nd time keep trying though"
    break
  }
  case 3: {
    iprintlnbold_noloc "3rd time now, do you think your a target ???"
    break
  }
  default: {
    iprintlnbold_noloc "For the " level.die_counter "th time, will you STOP DYING!!!"
  }
}

Jv?

[nuggets]

although we love the switch statement, i though i'd just try to show an easy introduction to the language of scripting

i could of taken it a step further and used something even more complicateder but me no good at complicated schtuff

[jv_map]

The compiler might not like the curlies around each case.

[nuggets]

they'll be happy, with the use of ; in there (line seperator)

[7th Es Cyborg]

thanks JV that fixed it up, what I'm doing in converting the mohaa maps into CTF maps using a script that tstrait72 and scorpio made with some modifications. Since the original is first capture wins the round, I changed it to you need 3 captures to win and when one team gets a cap. it shows the current score to the left.

[nuggets]

thanks JV??? i mean thanks where thanks is due... but come on!!!