Lua TFS 1.0 Storage questions

[Karain]

Hello again,

I noticed that you can't put storages for NPCs or Creatures anymore in TFS 1.0

Is there any alternative to give a value to a specific NPC and have it stick around even when the server is turned off? (global storages? writing the values into new txt files maybe?)

Also my other question: is there any way to add an array into a player's storage? or does it accept numbers only?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Karain]

~bump

 

[Znote]

When I was coding special NPC's I used global storages.
As far as I know, storages only accept integers.

Ohh nvm:
https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/schema.sql

Thats frightening, appears there are no global storages on TFS 1.0. At least not stored in the db.

A workaround is to just create a character in the GM account called Storage and reference his storage and use them as global storage.

It appears in the code that it has globalstorage, but: https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/data/global.lua#L244-254
It also appears to be a local list, which I assume is being flushed on every restart.

 

[Karain]

When I was coding special NPC's I used global storages.
As far as I know, storages only accept integers.

Ohh nvm:
https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/schema.sql

Thats frightening, appears there are no global storages on TFS 1.0. At least not stored in the db.

A workaround is to just create a character in the GM account called Storage and reference his storage and use them as global storage.

It appears in the code that it has globalstorage, but: https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/data/global.lua#L244-254
It also appears to be a local list, which I assume is being flushed on every restart.

Indeed, i wonder why mark would remove such a big feature from TFS =/ but your idea of a reserved character for a makeshift global storage is good, i'll use it thanks a lot!

 

[Evil Hero]

well the problem with creatures overall is that once they die, they get a new id, same as when the server restarts.
so setting a specific storage to a creature which exists more then once, could only be solved by it's id but then again we have the problem stated as first.

you could probably make use of I/O and dofile to load/save the stuff into a lua file.
so it's kinda like making a lua database.

 

[Summ]

Indeed, i wonder why mark would remove such a big feature from TFS =/ but your idea of a reserved character for a makeshift global storage is good, i'll use it thanks a lot!

The feature is still there just not saved as that option was less frequently needed anyway.
Still you have lua io function and database functions, so you can either dump the globalstorage table to a file or add a database table to save it.
Just use startup and shutdown events.

 

[Znote]

Edit: Right, my bad.

 

[Summ]

@Znote
Will only work if the player is online, just write it to a file when shutting down and load it on startup..