Wiremod Addition: E2: uniqueid support.

[ZeekDaGeek]

I wasn't quiet sure where to put this, but this a little code that I made and its useful to me, so it may be useful to everyone else, feel free to include it in the wiremodsvn. I don't know how to.

Syntax:

Console Command
- findUniqueID [full name] - Echo's back the UniqueID of a player based on full name, which is not case sensitive.


E2 Commands
- e:uniqueid() - Returns the UniqueID of a player entity as a string, returns nothing if not player.
- getplayer(s) - Returns player entity using UniqueID, returns nothing if no player can be found by that uniqueid

Reasoning/Usages:

Why UniqueID instead of SteamID?
- Lua does not have a way to create an entity variable from a SteamID.

Why use this when I could use a target finder specific to SteamID?
- With this, you could program a method of changing which players it'll target without needing to update an entity, or allow someone else to change or add a target who can't because of prop protection.

Why did you even make it?
- Actually a few people have requested something like this and they're always told to use target finders, here's an alternative.

Lua Code. I would add this to console.lua since its already included in init.lua, and its basically empty.

function finduniqueid( players, command, args )

	if (args) then

		local lowerargs = string.lower(table.concat(args," "))

		for spaceholder, theplayer in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
			local Nick = string.lower(theplayer:Nick())
			if (Nick == lowerargs) then
				players:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, theplayer:Nick() .. "'s UniqueID is " .. theplayer:UniqueID() )
				return ""
			end
		end
	end

	players:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, "findUniqueID USAGE:" )
	players:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, "  findUniqueID [full name] - Fetches UniqueID based on full name, which is not case sensitive." )

end

concommand.Add( "finduniqueid", finduniqueid )

registerFunction("uniqueid", "e:", "s", function(self, args)
	local op1 = args[2]
	local rv1 = op1[1](self, op1)
	local entity = checkEntity(rv1)
	if(!entity) then return "" end
	if(!rv1:IsPlayer()) then return "" end
	return rv1:UniqueID()
end)

registerFunction("getplayer", "s", "e", function(self, args)
	local op1 = args[2]
	local rv1 = op1[1](self, op1)
	local getplayer = player.GetByUniqueID(rv1)
	if getplayer then return getplayer end
end)

[Beer]

Moved to Wiremod Lua Coding




EDIT: Actually that looks pretty useful. Thanks for the contribution.

[Jat Goodwin]

who woo, /me installs.