A stupid question regarding fetching the Category name

[Randomness]

I was working on a little something and I feel like I came to a roadblock. For what I need to do, I need to pull the category name from a brick (getCategory, sort of) and store it in a variable to compare it to something which to me seems a little sloppy but it works.

Can anyone elaborate more on this? I feel like the solution is simple and I'm an idiot.

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[otto-san]

The category and sub-category are stored on the datablock.

%brick.getDatablock().category and %brick.getDatablock().subCategory should work.

[Randomness]

The category and sub-category are stored on the datablock.

%brick.getDatablock().category and %brick.getDatablock().subCategory should work.

Oh thank god, I fixed it. The line I needed was %col.getDatablock().category = "JVS". Thank you.

[otto-san]

Oh thank god, I fixed it. The line I needed was %col.getDatablock().category = "JVS". Thank you.

...?

That'll make the datablock move to the JVS category, do you mean $=?

[Randomness]

Yes, I meant $=. I didnt go back to edit my post so now I look stupid. Great.

Thanks anyway.


Topic Locked.


...Topic Unlocked, because it appears I cant code worth a crap.

Is there an easy way to clear the client's ghost brick via script? I've searched this sub-forum and found nothing related to what I needed.

[Nexus]

servercmdcancelbrick(%client);

I think there is also a variable saved to %client or %client.player that is the ghost brick, which you can then just call .delete(); on

[Xalos]

I always used %client.player.tempbrick.delete(); because other scripts might package servercmdCancelBrick in a way I don't want to have to counterpackage.

[Slicks555]

By the way, don't lock your topics in coding help. Ever.

[Randomness]

I guess that was kinda stupid.



Right.. new question.. (sheesh this must be my 3rd.)

How to fetch the host's BL_ID in script? The other topic doesnt help me.

[Xalos]

getNumKeyID()

[Randomness]

Is this for dedi servers too?

[Kalphiter]

Any type of server.

[Swollow]

1. How to use trace
with this method you can find just about anything

2. Search (I'm pretty sure that finding hosts ID is searchable)

3. Coding help

Follow this order

[Greek2me]

Here is a better method to get the host's ID, since this works on LAN servers as well.

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function getBlocklandID()
{
if($Server::LAN)
return getLAN_BLID();
else
return getNumKeyID();
}

[Ipquarx]

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