Lua [Creaturescripts for TFS 1.0] "onCombat" alternative?

[Sheinen Highfive]

Is there any alternative for "onCombat", I am using TFS 1.0. Like 6 months ago or so I used TFS 0.4 and everything was fine.

function onCombat(cid, target)
    if isPlayer(target) then
        if not getPlayerParty(cid) or not getPlayerParty(target) then
            return true
        end
        if getPlayerParty(cid) == getPlayerParty(target) then
            return false
        end
    end
    return true
end

 

[Pteryx]

Are you sure it's gone? I hope not - I found it by accident a couple of days ago and I want to use it later :s

Maybe it's not registered correctly?

IIRC my example had this in creaturescripts.xml:
<event type="combat" name="Attk" event="script">
and this in login.lua:
player:registerEvent("Attk")

 

[pepe]

It's not added (yet), so you have three options:
1) Give up on it.
2) Add it by yourself.
3) Wait until somebody make a pull request including this creatureevent...

 

[Pteryx]

It's not added (yet), so you have three options:
1) Give up on it.
2) Add it by yourself.
3) Wait until somebody make a pull request including this creatureevent...

Does it require C++ code to add an event?

I want another one even more than onCombat():
I'd like an event that fires exactly once every "server cycle" (where, for example, onCombat() between players would fire twice at the start of combat, once per player).

 

[gunz]

I've already coded it for my server, I will post it it will be 100% tested.

 

[Pteryx]

I'd like an event that fires exactly once every "server cycle" (where, for example, onCombat() between players would fire twice at the start of combat, once per player).

@gunz:

Could you make this one too? Here's a lightweight spec (probably enough to run with if you have done onCombat() already):

I'd like it exactly once per cycle with no explicit trigger.

I'd like to have support via XML
(i.e. this kind of thing: <event type="serverTick" name="PetControl" event="script" />)
so it could (if necessary) initiate different scripts.
If that makes it too much trouble to implement, a single call to a standard script would be ok - AFAIK there's no loss of capability, because I can call other scripts from that.

The "onServerTick()" API doesn't need any parameters.
If I need references to in-game objects or state I'll use OT "Storage" or the existing "getXxxByYyy()" function calls.
If the server already counts "server cycles" it would be ok as a parameter, but if not I can easily implement what I actually need in Lua.

NB: I'll almost certainly request this from the official TFS project sooner or later, but I want it now