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12:12:12 14 July 2012

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ddraig
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Odd scripting question

I've run into quite a bit of a dilemma. It basically concerns a way of doing a certain thing and I'm not sure if there's a more elegant solution or not (I'm not a very good coder, and have only very recently started)

I'm modifying an AMK file, news_main.script

There's a function that determines what weapon a stalker was killed with.

Here's the exact function:

http://pastebin.com/1N0TpPvV

The problem is that I'm using a custom mod that switches arms based on what suit you're using, and it does this by creating seperate versions of all weapons with the name of the suit attached which then uses a seperate mesh for the hud display... this has created quite a messy script when I attempt to add them to this function (just adding the base weapon name doesn't really work, as thanks to the mod they don't really exist anymore)

This is the way the current script looks:

http://pastebin.com/zhVZNznN

As you can see, it's a bit headache inducing compared to the other one.. would there be an easy way to add all possible variants of a weapon and cutting down on the amount of entries? Something like wpn_name(wildcard_outfit) or something?

17:55:17 14 July 2012

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Vintar
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if string.find(id, "wpn_pm") then
     return 1
end

etc etc

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18:10:08 14 July 2012

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It's that simple? Vintar, you're a true hero

Would it be possible to include an or statement in there? So to be something like

if string.find(id, "wpn_pm" or "wpn_fort") then
          return 1
end

Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I really am terrible new this to this sort of thing,.

21:21:07 14 July 2012

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Would it be possible to include an or statement in there? So to be something like

if string.find(id, "wpn_pm" or "wpn_fort") then
          return 1
end

---END QUOTATION---

No, won't work that way. You'd need to write it like that:

if string.find(id, "wpn_pm") or string.find(id, "wpn_fort") then
          return 1
end

Something considered impossible is only something that hasn't been done yet.

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02:46:19 15 July 2012

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---QUOTATION---
No, won't work that way. You'd need to write it like that:

if string.find(id, "wpn_pm") or string.find(id, "wpn_fort") then
          return 1
end

---END QUOTATION---

Thanks for the help! I love your dynamic shaders, by the way.

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03:54:04 15 July 2012

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I have to agree with you on that one. I am still learning what I have to learn, and the amount of support from the community has really helped me learn a lot.

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14:47:36 15 July 2012

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I was just thinking, if you are using the arms match suit mod from myself and Buddiebbb, then none of this is needed. NPC`s dont use these weapons, they only use the standard ones.
It is needed however if you are wanting to know what the actor shot someone with, but ofcourse there are easier ways of doing that.

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