Remove Item after 20 seconds without addEvent()

[WarOfTheTitans]

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Solved, because I used this:

<item id="6542" article="an" name="colored egg" plural="colored eggs">
		<attribute key="decayTo" value="0" />
		<attribute key="duration" value="20" />
		<attribute key="moveable" value="0" />
	</item>

in items.xml.
Then to make it disappear, I used:

egg = doCreateItem(6542, 1, getCreaturePosition)
doDecayItem(egg)

I removed ".uid" after "doDecayItem(egg". It worked perfectly without the "addEvent" function. I can even reload without any cancels aswell.

Thanks to Far Carder for helping me

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My script:

doCreateItem(6542, 1, getCreaturePosition(cid))

I want to disappear after 20 seconds. I've edited in items.xml:

<item id="6542" article="an" name="colored egg" plural="colored eggs">
		<attribute key="decayTo" value="0" />
		<attribute key="duration" value="20" />
		<attribute key="moveable" value="0" />
	</item>

But it doesn't disappear. I don't want any addEvents including because if i for example reload actions the addEvent will be canceled. So if you create the item, addEvent then if i reload actions the egg will lay on the ground forever.

Thanks in advance

 

[Zyntax]

You could do an onThink(interval) probably.
Set a globalstroage on spawning with os.time() then check via onThink if time.diff(os.time(),globalstorage) > 20 then remove.
Could work.

 

[WarOfTheTitans]

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That could cause lagg. I want it most stable.
But I could try if you made the scripts to me.

 

[Zyntax]

Tricky to track down the egg from the whole map xD
let's try this:
at creating the egg, add:

local egg = doCreateItem(6542, 1, getCreaturePosition(cid))
doItemSetAttribute(egg.uid, "uid", 7000)
setGlobalStorageValue(7000,os.time())

then an onThink event with:

function onThink()
if os.difftime(os.time(), getGlobalStorageValue(7000)) > 20 then
	doRemoveItem(7000, 1)
end
return true
end

I'm positive that this onThink won't work right on, but let's fix it

Edit: A MOD could make it work. You use the same config for creating and checking.
Easiest.

 

[Nothxbye]

doCreateItem(6542, 1, getCreaturePosition(cid))

disappeartime = 20 -- Time in seconds.
time = os.clock()
 
function onThink()
  if (time + disappeartime) < os.clock() then
    time = os.clock()
    doRemoveItem(7000, 1)
  end
  return 1
end

 

[WarOfTheTitans]

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Nah, It looks like this will crash the server after some moments.
I want it like magicwall. I could source edit if its required.

 

[Far Carder]

Im pretty sure it's like this:

egg = doCreateItem(6542, 1, getCreaturePosition(cid))
doDecayItem(egg.uid)

its the normal way to do it normally but I'm not sure if that will be cancelled if you reload actions or not

 

[WarOfTheTitans]

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@Far Carder:
Take a look at the script:

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Not workin

[22/02/2012 22:57:33] data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:onUse
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] Description: 
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:15: attempt to index local 'bomb1' (a number value)
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] stack traceback:
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] 	data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:15: in function <data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:1>

 

[Far Carder]

Was the bomb created? Also it looks like you are creating the bombs twice are you ment to be doing that? Try this:

                    local bomb1 = doCreateItem(plasticBombs[1], 1, getCreaturePosition(cid))
                    doDecayItem(bomb1.uid

 

[WarOfTheTitans]

[SOLVED]
The bomb is created, it don't dissapear. The same error occours:

[22/02/2012 22:57:33] data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.luanUse
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] Description:
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:15: attempt to index local 'bomb1' (a number value)
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] stack traceback:
[22/02/2012 22:57:33] data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:15: in function <data/actions/scripts/custom/plasticbomb.lua:1>

 

[Nothxbye]

The bomb is created, it don't dissapear. The same error occours:

u using that stupid script but you are scared of simply working script with os.clock() that i gave you before.. funny

 

[Far Carder]

Try removing the .uid after each bomb so
doDecayItem(bomb1)
etc

 

[WarOfTheTitans]

@Nothxbye: Listen up... To call other scripts/storages from other scripts(creaturescipt/globalevent/and so on..) is more chance to crash. The storages values are sometimes suddenly appears "NIL".
I had a script that changed players storage, it worked very long time and then the storage suddenly appeared as "NIL" and everything looked fine in the script. So thats why I am ain't using called scripts.

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@Far Carder, thanks alot it worked, even when i reloaded the sscript Rep+ ofcourse

 

[Far Carder]

u using that stupid script but you are scared of simply working script with os.clock() that i gave you before.. funny

I'm not sure if you are calling my script stupid but this is how you are ment to remove/change items after a certain time it is much MUCH simpler and alot less things to go wrong. I would say using globalevents and os.clock() is stupid since you can just use doDecayItem().