Solved A talkaction that would cause a magic effect near player, not on player.

[Slime]

I want to do sort of ragnarok online type emoticon system. It will just execute a magic effect depending on the command, for example /emot1, /emot2 etc.

Also I'd like to make a 1 second delay between using them.

 

[zbizu]

local k = getThingPos(cid)
doSendMagicEffect({x = k.x + 0, y = k.y + 0, z = k.z + 0},effect)

+ 0 is offset

 

[Slime]

[03/03/2014 10:58:09] [Error - TalkAction Interface]
[03/03/2014 10:58:09] data/talkactions/scripts/magiceffect.lua
[03/03/2014 10:58:09] Description:
[03/03/2014 10:58:09] (luaGetThingPosition) Thing not found
I'm using TFS 0.3.6.

 

[Limos]

How did you added it?
Make sure you use cid inside the function.

function onSay(cid, words, param)
   local k = getThingPos(cid)
   doSendMagicEffect({x = k.x -1, y = k.y -1, z = k.z}, 30)
   return true
end

 

[kkk111]

pos = getCreaturePosition(cid)
doSendMagicEffect({x=pos.x, y=pos.y, z=pos.z}, CONST_ME_TELEPORT)

 

[Slime]

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
local position = getCreaturePosition(cid)
doSendMagicEffect({x = position.x, y = position.y - 1, z = position.z},CONST_ME_STEPSVERTICAL)
return true
end

It works. Is there a way to set delay time for talkactions in general? I think it would be the only way to prevent players from spamming these.

 

[zbizu]

exhaustion lib:

exhaustion =
{
  check = function (cid, storage)
    return getPlayerStorageValue(cid, storage) >= os.time()
  end,
  get = function (cid, storage)
    local exhaust = getPlayerStorageValue(cid, storage)
    if(exhaust > 0) then
      local left = exhaust - os.time()
      if(left >= 0) then
        return left
      end
    end
    return false
  end,
  set = function (cid, storage, time)
    setPlayerStorageValue(cid, storage, os.time() + time)
  end,
  make = function (cid, storage, time)
    local exhaust = exhaustion.get(cid, storage)
    if(not exhaust) then
      exhaustion.set(cid, storage, time)
      return true
    end
    return false
  end
}

talkaction:

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
if exhaustion.get(cid, 101) then
doPlayerSendCancel(cid, 'You are exhausted.')
return true
end
local position = getCreaturePosition(cid)
doSendMagicEffect({x = position.x, y = position.y - 1, z = position.z},CONST_ME_STEPSVERTICAL)
exhaustion.set(cid, 101, 5) -- 5 seconds
return true
end

 

[Shadowsong]

Or, when importing emoticon sprites, you could just make them 64x64 and place them in the top-left corner so that they will always appear on that position above the player.

 

[Slime]

@zbizu
Works perfectly, thanks man!
@Shadowsong
It wouldn't work if there was a player standing in the place of emoticon. Player's sprite would be on top.

 

[Shadowsong]

@zbizu
Works perfectly, thanks man!
@Shadowsong
It wouldn't work if there was a player standing in the place of emoticon. Player's sprite would be on top.

Nope, I'm using emoticons this way and they don't do that.

 

[Slime]

Ok, it works fine for me too. Do your emoticons "follow" the player if he moves or just stand in place like ordinary magic effects?

 

[Shadowsong]

Ok, it works fine for me too. Do your emoticons "follow" the player if he moves or just stand in place like ordinary magic effects?

Unfortunately, they stay in the place they were originally casted at. I don't think that can be changed if you're gonna use them as magic effect (either through a talkaction offset or sprite offset) because it's still a magic effect. Maybe it could be done through OTClient, but I don't have experience with that :\

 

[Slime]

So I'll leave it as it is, this isn't a huge issue at all.