Portal status

[cezarica]

Hi,

is there an easier way to get the "status" of the portal apart than something like:

    local state = 0
    for k,v in pairs(Ents) do
        if v.prefab == "multiplayer_portal" then
            state = 1
            break
        elseif v.prefab == "multiplayer_portal_moonrock_constr_plans" then
            state = 2
            break        
        elseif v.prefab == "multiplayer_portal_moonrock" then
            state = 3
            break
        end
    end

Basically I want to get the prefab of the portal's status at any given time. Edited January 30, 2019 by cezarica

[YakumoYukari]

Your code looks fine. I think there's not really be the way to improve it.
I believe multiplayer_portal is not the 'registered(into TheWorld)' prefab.
So I assume that finding the portal via Ents is inevitable.

Here's my expression. There's not a big change but Tag finding is a bit faster.

local function GetPortalState()
    local portal
    for k,v in pairs(Ents) do
        if v:HasTag("multiplayer_portal") then
            portal = v
            break
        end
    end

    if portal ~= nil then
        if portal:HasTag("constructionsite") then
            return 2
        elseif portal:HasTag("moontrader") then
            return 3
        else
            return 1
        end
    end
    return 0
end

 

[cezarica]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I wanted to get the prefab name because I was actually aiming to get it's position in the world, and thanks to your input I changed my previous code (not the one posted above) to:

local function GetPortalPosition()
    local coords = nil
    for k,v in pairs(Ents) do
        if v:HasTag("multiplayer_portal") or v:HasTag("constructionsite") or v:HasTag("moontrader") then
            coords = Point(v.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
            break
        end
    end
    return coords
end

Tested it and works as expected! Thanks!

Now I have to figure out how to store the 'coords' into a global variable so I can access it later from another function where I could be able to read and rewrite it. Any idea how to do that?

Edit: Never mind, I figured out. Having a local coords = {} outside any functions did the trick. Happy dance!

Edited January 31, 2019 by cezarica

[YakumoYukari]

for k,v in pairs(Ents) do
  if v:HasTag("multiplayer_portal") or v:HasTag("constructionsite") or v:HasTag("moontrader") then
    return Point(v.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
  end
end

This would be enough.
If there's no return in Lua's function, will consider as nil.

Edited April 4, 2019 by YakumoYukari