Event: onPlayerFirstSpawn not working

[Mordius]

I'm attempting to expose a new event: onPlayerFirstSpawn. Although I'm a professional programmer, I have no prior experience with TorqueScript. To get started I read some tutorials on TorqueScript and looked through pre-existing events to see what I could find. I then copy/pasted some stuff together in the hopes that I could get it to magically work, but I'm not having much luck. Here's what I've got so far:

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registerInputEvent(fxDTSBrick,onPlayerFirstSpawn,"Self fxDTSBrick" TAB "Player Player" TAB "Client GameConnection" TAB "MiniGame Minigame");

package onPlayerFirstSpawn
{
function GameConnection::onClientEnterGame(%client) {
parent::onClientEnterGame(%client);
$InputTarget_["Client"] = %client;
%brick.processInputEvent(onPlayerFirstSpawn,%client);
}

};activatePackage(onPlayerFirstSpawn);
However, like I said before, this isn't working. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

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[xXBeibsFan119Xx]

Wow, standards must be pretty low in the industry.
%brick is undefined.

[Lugnut]

wouldn't you have to like loop through every brick to get this to work?
you have to tell it which brick to process on

[xXBeibsFan119Xx]

wouldn't you have to like loop through every brick to get this to work?

Nope. Just hook in to the addEvent/removeEvent or whatever methods, check if it's the event, and add the brick to a list, which the method above would loop through.

[Mordius]

Hey BeibsFan, thanks for the "compliment". TorqueScript is pretty unfamiliar to me and I've actually never done anything remotely like it, so could you explain a little more? I guess you could call me a "noob".

[xXBeibsFan119Xx]

Hey BeibsFan, thanks for the "compliment". TorqueScript is pretty unfamiliar to me and I've actually never done anything remotely like it, so could you explain a little more? I guess you could call me a "noob".

%brick isn't an implicit variable. So you can't just use it without declaring it.

[Mordius]

BeibsFan: Naturally, that's common to most programming languages. However, how would I go about finding the value of %brick in this case?

[Ipquarx]

how would I go about finding the value of %brick?

you can't use it without declaring it.

I think that explains itself.

More specifically, this is a bad idea, because it could be easily abused, as there is no implied target it would have to call EVERY SINGLE BRICK IN THE SERVER.

Unless there is a specific target, like I said, generally not a good idea to loop call a function to 59384 bricks at the same time. Especially if it's a busy server.

[elm]

I think that explains itself.

More specifically, this is a bad idea, because it could be easily abused, as there is no implied target it would have to call EVERY SINGLE BRICK IN THE SERVER.

Unless there is a specific target, like I said, generally not a good idea to loop call a function to 59384 bricks at the same time. Especially if it's a busy server.

Nope. Just hook in to the addEvent/removeEvent or whatever methods, check if it's the event, and add the brick to a list, which the method above would loop through.

[Mordius]

Ipquarx, what do you mean by no implied target? If I put an event on the brick, does the event know which brick is on? There's no "backlink", "super", "uber", or "parent" or anything like that for an instantiated event on a brick?

If that's not the case is there any way at all to tie an event to a client's first spawn? There must be, somewhere.

[Slicks555]

I recommend you don't do something like this. There's just too many possible abuses. I recommend a spawn point with a short fall then a plate below that does whatever you want onTouch, then teleports them to play area. It's not as visually pleasing, but it's a hell of a lot easier and less abuse prone.

[phflack]

try replacing

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%brick.processInputEvent(onPlayerFirstSpawn,%client);
with

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for(%a = 0; %a < MainBrickGroup.getCount(); %a++)
   for(%b = 0; %b < MainBrickGroup.getObject(%a).getCount(); %b++)
      MainBrickGroup.getObject(%a).getObject(%b).processInputEvent(onPlayerFirstSpawn, %client);

assuming that your processInputEvent(); is correct, which i have no idea about
but that code should get each brick in the server and call the function

[elm]

try replacing

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%brick.processInputEvent(onPlayerFirstSpawn,%client);
with

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for(%a = 0; %a < MainBrickGroup.getCount(); %a++)
   for(%b = 0; %b < MainBrickGroup.getObject(%a).getCount(); %b++)
      MainBrickGroup.getObject(%a).getObject(%b).processInputEvent(onPlayerFirstSpawn, %client);

assuming that your processInputEvent(); is correct, which i have no idea about
but that code should get each brick in the server and call the function

No, with a lot of bricks that'll be disasterous. Just do what jookia said..

[Greek2me]

Stop suggesting that he should loop through every single brick in the server. Servers often have over a hundred thousand bricks.

Do what xXBeibsFan119Xx (Jookia) said and simply make a tab-delimited list of every brick containing the event, then loop through that list and call the event on each of the bricks in it.

[Ipquarx]

Stop suggesting that he should loop through every single brick in the server.

So much this.