Getting Find() and Chat Commands To Work

[Alchemise]

Okay, so I can't for the life of me figure out why it wont work. Heres the code:

@name Text Parse Test
@inputs 
@outputs Player:string Tpos:vector Target:entity
@persist Target:entity PlayerTest:string
interval(10)
if((lastSaid():find("Give Cube"))){
Player = lastSaid():sub(10, 20)
}
if(!Target){
findPlayerByName(Player)
Target = find()}

Tpos = Target:pos()

Its picking up the player name correctly, but the find function wont work. It refuses to find anything =/

Any ideas?

[Nicolai1]

Okay, so I can't for the life of me figure out why it wont work. Heres the code:

@name Text Parse Test
@inputs 
@outputs Player:string Tpos:vector Target:entity
@persist Target:entity PlayerTest:string
interval(10)
if((lastSaid():find("Give Cube"))){
Player = lastSaid():sub(10, 20)
}
if(!Target){
findPlayerByName(Player)
Target = find()}

Tpos = Target:pos()

Its picking up the player name correctly, but the find function wont work. It refuses to find anything =/

Any ideas?

Uhh, I would guess you need to change the if(!Target){ line to
if(!Target & $Target){
Also, sometimes the $Target don't work, just multiply it

[Syranide]

Uhh, I would guess you need to change the if(!Target){ line to
if(!Target & $Target){
Also, sometimes the $Target don't work, just multiply it

You can't use $Target, it's an entity, it should be "~".
And $Target wouldn't work either way, input deltas are always non-zero.


Anyway, same as always, add some outputs to make sure you properly got an entity, output when it finds something, etc, etc, etc.
(Which find()-function doesn't work?)

[Alchemise]

Well if Target is picked up as a proper enter, the vector Tpos will output its coords, which it doesn't. Stays stuck at the origin.

I've tried trigger the if by an input instead to no avail, and using a constant string instead of a variable.

Is there something wrong with me find lines?

findPlayerByName(Player)
Target = find()

Is that enough to get the entity of a player?

[Alchemise]

Ahh, apperently

findPlayerByName(S)

doesn' work. Used different terms and it worked.

Thanks for the replies guys.

[Echo51]

if(owner():lastSaid() == "test"){#do my ass off}

thats what i use, probaly a bit wrong, but check the manual

[Solece]

im trying to do the same thing you are, and i am also frustrated by failure.

@name Companion cube v1
@inputs 
@outputs 
@persist Ep:vector Commandpos:string
@trigger all
interval(10)
E=entity()
Commandb=owner():lastSaid()
Command=owner():lastSaid():sub(1,7)
Commandpos=owner():lastSaid():sub(8,Commandb:length())
Et=findPlayerByName(Commandpos)

if (Command=="Follow "){
E:applyForce(Et:pos()+vec(0,0,140)-entity():pos()-E:vel()*0.1)
}

Can anyone help?

[Syranide]

What's happening?
As always, output debug stuff and try to figure out what's (not) happening.

[Solece]

What's happening?
As always, output debug stuff and try to figure out what's (not) happening.

Thats just the thing, there are no outputs or inputs, so there really isnt a way to debug.
oh and the error is right here:

E:applyForce(Et:pos()+vec(0,0,140)-entity():pos()-E:vel()*0.1)

Right between applyForce and (Et, it says im missing a bracket, but im not.

[Syranide]

Thats just the thing, there are no outputs or inputs, so there really isnt a way to debug.
oh and the error is right here:

E:applyForce(Et:pos()+vec(0,0,140)-entity():pos()-E:vel()*0.1)

Right between applyForce and (Et, it says im missing a bracket, but im not.

No... but add outputs, and assign parts of what your expression does to output to those outputs. Like the different substrings, vectors, etc, etc. Whether it enters certain if-statements, etc, etc.