Solved offline letters

[whitevo]

In LUA, how to send items directly to player depot or mailbox to players who are offline?
These items are unique.

For now I store them to global table, which will disappear on server reset. But I prefer easier solution what does not including making extra table to database.

 

[forgee]

https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/src/mailbox.cpp#L112-L122

As this section shows, sending mail through mailboxes creates a "dummy" player object for offline players. You could add a new Lua function that works the same way.
If you don't want to edit the source a possible workaround would be to place a mailbox on the map that is inaccessible to players. Let the script put the items in a parcel with a label and then put the parcel on the mailbox.
That's what I can think of, wish there is something I have overlooked.

 

[whitevo]

https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/blob/master/src/mailbox.cpp#L112-L122

As this section shows, sending mail through mailboxes creates a "dummy" player object for offline players. You could add a new Lua function that works the same way.
If you don't want to edit the source a possible workaround would be to place a mailbox on the map that is inaccessible to players. Let the script put the items in a parcel with a label and then put the parcel on the mailbox.
That's what I can think of, wish there is something I have overlooked.

already tried before made this thread.
mail must be moved by player.

 

[forgee]

Did you use tile:queryAdd(thing[, flags]) to put the parcel on the mailbox?

 

[whitevo]

Did you use tile:queryAdd(thing[, flags]) to put the parcel on the mailbox?

nop, gona try later today.

 

[forgee]

nop, gona try later today.

I just had a look and tile:queryAdd does not seem to work. What does work is item:moveTo(position).

I made this test talk action (/test Name), if you face a mailbox it sends a parcel to the player whose name matches param. Hard code the position of your "secret" mailbox and put the receiver's name instead of param. Hope that helps, obviously don't use a talkaction for the actual script.

function onSay(player, words, param)
    local pos = player:getPosition()
    pos:getNextPosition(player:getDirection())
   
    local parcel = Game.createItem(2595, 1)
    local label = parcel:addItem(2599)
    label:setAttribute(ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_TEXT, param)

    -- add your items here
    -- parcel:addItem(itemid, count) or parcel:addItemEx(item)

    parcel:moveTo(pos)
    return false
end

 

[silveralol]

I'm curious about it..
solved?
I don't understand much what you want, you want just send some item to inbox of the player ?

 

[whitevo]

Totally forgot about this thread xD

Yeah, solved by creating my own "mailbox".
Player receives the letter when getting online.

function checkWarMails(player)
local playerName = player:getName()
local warMailT = warMails[playerName]

    if warMailT then
        for i, mailT in pairs(warMailT) do
            local guildName = mailT.attackerGuildName
            local killAmount = mailT.kills
            local time = mailT.time
            local warzoneID = mailT.ID
           
            if time+warMailExpireTime > os.time() then
                addWarLetter(player, guildName, killAmount, warzoneID)
            end
        end
       
        warMails[playerName] = nil
    end
end