You code won't work liltc as there is a syntax error and the appearance of a level array from somewhere.

I would solve the original specification with two functions:

First get a random player on a team:

getRandomPlayer(team)
{
   teamPlayers = [];

   players = getentarray("player", "classname");

   for(i=0; i<players.size; i++)
   {
      plr = players[i];

      if(isDefined(plr.pers["team"]) && plr.pers["team"] == team)
         teamPlayers[teamPlayers.size] = plr;
   }


   if(teamPlayers.size > 0)
      return teamPlayers[randomInt(teamPlayers.size)];
   else
      return undefined;
}

In your existing code you would then have:

randPlayer = getRandomPlayer("axis");

depending on the team you were looking for.


For the exclusion try:

getRandomExcludePlayer(exPlayer)
{
   rPlayers = [];

   players = getentarray("player", "classname");

   for(i=0; i<players.size; i++)
   {
      plr = players[i];
         
      if(plr != exPlayer)
         rPlayers[rPlayers.size] = plr;
   }


   if(rPlayers.size > 0)
      return rPlayers[randomInt(rPlayers.size)];
   else
      return undefined;
}

Where you would call:

randPlayer = getRandomExcludePlayer(player);

where 'player' is a reference to the player you want to exclude.

Can I use "randPlayer" as "level.randPlayer"? It's for making a iprintln of the "randPlayer.name" later in an other part of the script.

And what do this "returns" in this part?

	if(teamPlayers.size > 0)
		return teamPlayers[randomInt(teamPlayers.size)];
	else
		return undefined;

edited on Nov. 9, 2010 02:28 pm by Leal

yeah my bad arrays are hard for me but i still try

Leal writes...

The code is a standalone function and functions return an answer - in this case a random player. In case there are not enough players on the server it returns "undefined" - i.e. no random player found.

For your original purpose you can use:

randPlayer = getRandomPlayer("axis");

// some more code

if(isDefined(randPlayer))
   iprintln(randPlayer.name);

if(players[i].pers["team"] == "spectator")

Well, if you dont want spectators to be the random players, dont use this line :P
Else, define team.
And: If(teamplayers.size==0) there are no players on a team.
Add a check for it somewhere

liltc64 writes...

Mh what?

Pedro699 writes...

But if I want to use the random player in an other thread? I used it as a level. variable and it seems to work fine.

IzNoGoD writes...

Okay thank you!

Leal writes...

So use:

level.randPlayer = getRandomPlayer("axis");

Then level.randPlayer is available everywhere.

Okay, thank you very much liltc and IzNoGoD, specialy Pedro :D. It's working fine :).