Updating vehicle damage - when?

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Updating vehicle damage - when? - liam1412 - 11.04.2013

So I am saving all vehicle damage to the enum which in turn goes to the database. At what point should I update the enum??

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - Faisal_khan - 11.04.2013

Run a loop under OnPlayerUpdate to check the vehicles. Maybe this will work out. Not sure.

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - liam1412 - 11.04.2013

I was thinking about doing a processVehicleDamage() function on a timer every 30 seconds. Would that be heavy on resources.

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - LetsOWN[PL] - 11.04.2013

Hi.
... I don't want to give bad advise or something, but I would do it when player leaves vehicle (using OnPlayerExitVehicle public).
Seems most optimal.

Greetz,
LetsOWN

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - park4bmx - 11.04.2013

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faisal_khan

Run a loop under OnPlayerUpdate to check the vehicles. Maybe this will work out. Not sure.

simply the worst way you can think of !

Quote:

Originally Posted by LetsOWN[PL]

Hi.
... I don't want to give bad advise or something, but I would do it when player leaves vehicle (using OnPlayerExitVehicle public).
Seems most optimal.

Greetz,
LetsOWN

What if the player never leaves the car ?
e.g explodes.

A good way is going to be to use the vehicles damage status update callback
OnVehicleDamageStatusUpdate
NOTE: if you want to go fully pro on this u can make it check how fast its updating the status so there is no overwriting.

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - Faisal_khan - 11.04.2013

Quote:

Originally Posted by liam1412

I was thinking about doing a processVehicleDamage() function on a timer every 30 seconds. Would that be heavy on resources.

Yeah that won't cause a problem. That was what I thought earlier before posting here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LetsOWN[PL]

Hi.
... I don't want to give bad advise or something, but I would do it when player leaves vehicle (using OnPlayerExitVehicle public).
Seems most optimal.

Greetz,
LetsOWN

No I won't do that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by park4bmx

Damn this was added in 0.3a and how could I never come across this!

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - liam1412 - 11.04.2013

Quote:

Originally Posted by park4bmx

simply the worst way you can think of !

What if the player never leaves the car ?
e.g explodes.

A good way is going to be to use the vehicles damage status update callback
OnVehicleDamageStatusUpdate
NOTE: if you want to go fully pro on this u can make it check how fast its updating the status so there is no overwriting.

I could see this getting nasty. IE if someone goes on a rampage smashing into vehicles etc, that's a lot of writes. I'm not sure how I would check the speed it was updating to prevent this.

Re: Updating vehicle damage - when? - park4bmx - 11.04.2013

after each update store the current time by how much it passed

pawn Код:

//global variables!
new Hour, Minute, Second;

//the callback
public OnVehicleDamageStatusUpdate(vehicleid, playerid)
{
    new nHour, nMinute, nSecond;
    gettime(nHour, nMinute, nSecond);
    if(nHour => Hour  && nMinute => Minute && nSecond > Second+2)//the simplest check, ofc it can be more advanced(the +2 add another 2sec)
    {
        gettime(Hour, Minute, Second);//update the last time it updated
        //run your save
    }
    return 1;
}

im not sure about the check as the gettime is using Unix time