[liam1412]

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??

[Faisal_khan]

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

[liam1412]

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

[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

[park4bmx]

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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 !

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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.

[Faisal_khan]

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.

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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.

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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

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

[liam1412]

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.

[park4bmx]

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