TFS 1.X+ How to display effect above character

[Liryk]

Hey i need help with magic effect, how i can display effect above character?
I don't know how to use math in lua

playerpos = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

 

[Leftwing]

first you'll need a player = Player(cid) variable, then you can do:

player:getPosition():sendMagicEffect(CONST_ME_TELEPORT)

 

[Liryk]

But i have code:


elseif(getPlayerVocation(pid) == 0) then
playerpos = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

and i need to send effect above my character

 

[Leftwing]

Okay, can you explain what you mean by above? Do you want the effect on top of the character? CTRL-A your entire file. Insert in this post a code block, and label it Lua. I'll modify it for you to work.

 

[Liryk]

Yea on top of character because i create new magic effect something in the style of the admin string and I want to show it on to of my character

like this:

EDIT:
Here is a small code

local players = getPlayersOnline()
for _, pid in ipairs(getPlayersOnline()) do

if(getPlayerVocation(pid) == 0) then
playerpos = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

 

[Leftwing]

Okay, what you really mean is you want it to appear to be "above", but positioning wise, it's actually -1 along the Y axis. That is doable, but in order to do that, you will need to edit the Y value of the player position before passing it to your doSendMagicEffect call.

I'm not quite sure if the playerpos variable is in this format, but I'm guessing you can do a playerpos.y -= 1 operation before sending the effect.

 

[Liryk]

Okay, what you really mean is you want it to appear to be "above", but positioning wise, it's actually -1 along the Y axis. That is doable, but in order to do that, you will need to edit the Y value of the player position before passing it to your doSendMagicEffect call.

I'm not quite sure if the playerpos variable is in this format, but I'm guessing you can do a playerpos.y -= 1 operation before sending the effect.

Ok but i try all "in my opinion" and no results

playerpos(y-1) = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

 

[Aeronx]

Its as easy as this. Stop using 0.X functions.

playerpos = player:getPosition()
effectpos = Position(playerpos.x, playerpos.y -1, playerpos.z)
effectpos:sendMagicEffect(CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

 

[Liryk]

Its as easy as this. Stop using 0.X functions.

playerpos = player:getPosition()
effectpos = Position(playerpos.x, playerpos.y -1, playerpos.z)
effectpos:sendMagicEffect(CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

Errors
data/globalevents/scripts/efekty.lua:296: attempt to index global 'player' (a nil value)

 

[Erexo]

in pre 1.0

playerpos = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect({x=playerpos.x, y=playerpos.y-1, z=playerpos.z}, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

or

pos= getPlayerPosition(pid)
pos.y = pos.y-1
doSendMagicEffect(pos, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

 

[Liryk]

or in pre 1.0

playerpos = getPlayerPosition(pid)
doSendMagicEffect({x=playerpos.x, y=playerpos.y-1, z=playerpos.z}, CONST_ME_FIREAREA)

Oh its working hah thanks