Lua Script that finds the surrounding items.

[Drakkhan]

I'm looking for a script that gets the SIDs, names and location of the 8 items immediately adjacent to the player when the script is called.

These 8 items (using pseudo-"spell area" notation):
{
{1, 2, 3},
{4, P, 5},
{6, 7, 8}
}

Where P is the player.

Regards,

Drakkhan

 

[Drakkhan]

Found the answer to my question. Note that I'm using TFS 0.2.14 (Mystic Spirit)

On my server, available lua functions can be found in "server/doc/LUA_FUNCTIONS".

So, you can get information on the ground tile at a location with:

getThingfromPos(pos)

Which returns a table of data on the ground item at the table of position data "pos". This didn't function as I needed, because it ignores a sword for example and returns the grass under it.

I couldn't find a function that reasonably returns the top item at a location.. but I did find this function that returns information on items with provided id if they are at the location:

getTileItemById(pos, itemId, <optional> subType)

Since I was only looking for a way to check if an item is around the player, this will do. This function returns a table of information on the item with itemId at the position of interest. If an item of itemId is not at the location, 0 is returned.

Test code:

local playerPos = getCreaturePosition(cid)

local item1pos = {}
item1pos.x = playerPos.x - 1
item1pos.y = playerPos.y - 1
item1pos.z = playerPos.z

local item1 = getTileItemById(item1pos, 2555)
local item1name = getItemName(item1.itemid)


doCreatureSay(cid, string.format("item1: %d %s", item1.itemid, item1name), TALKTYPE_ORANGE_1)

Boom!