Lua define function

[Kahras]

You can guide me on how to define a doCreateMonster that was used in the onKill function so that I can define this function in onLogout?

function onKill(player, target)
        a = doCreateMonster(xxxx)
return true
end

function onLogout(player)
doRemoveCreature(a)
return true
end

local variable doesn't work, global variable is a problem when 2 players run the script

 

[amatria]

You can store a table of key-value pairs where the key is the player's CID and the value is the monster created for each player online.

Proof of concept:

player_monster_table = {}

player_a_cid = 17
player_b_cid = 19

-- onKill player_a
-- foo = doCreateMonster(...)
player_monster_table[player_a_cid] = "foo"
-- onKill player_b
-- bar = doCreateMonster(...)
player_monster_table[player_b_cid] = "bar"

-- onLogout player_b
-- doRemoveCreature(player_monster_table[player_b_cid])
player_monster_table[player_b_cid] = nil

-- final key-value state
for key, value in pairs(player_monster_table) do
  print(key, value)
end