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Tarkus1971

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Posted: 14th Apr 2016 08:55

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Can you currently read if the flashlight is on or off in lua, i know you can set the key enable on or off, but i need to know if you can check wheter the flashlight is on or off, any ideas ?

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Posted: 14th Apr 2016 11:54 Edited at: 14th Apr 2016 12:07

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The Global g_PlayerFlashlight Returns true if the player flashlight is active, I have not tested this yet but it should work.

EDIT:

Sorry I have just tested it and It does not work at the moment, maybe it has been put there for future use.

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Posted: 14th Apr 2016 13:26

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Anyway you can declare a global let's say "flashlightIsOn", iniciate as false, so each time the flashlight is on, so flashlightIsOn>0.
In another words, each time you press "F" key, then flashlightIsOn>0.

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If player press "F" and flashlightIsOn>0 then 
  flashlightIsOn = 0
else
  flashlightIsOn=flashlightIsOn+1
end 
 If flashlightIsOn>0 then
  do something
else
 do nothing or something else
end

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Posted: 14th Apr 2016 18:18

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It works ok for me Taz, tried this real simple script to check:

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function flashlight_init(e)
end

function flashlight_main(e)

	Prompt("flashlight " .. g_PlayerFlashlight)

end

When the flashlight is off g_PlayerFlashlight = 0, when on it's g_PlayerFlashlight = 1 and when holding the 'F' key down it's all over the place, but settles on 1 or 0 when key is released

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Posted: 15th Apr 2016 10:47

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@cybernescence

There is no wonder it did not work for me I also wrote a simple script:

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function test_init(e)
end

function test_main(e)
	PlayerDist = GetPlayerDistance(e)
 	if PlayerDist < 120 then
		if g_PlayerFlashlight == true then
			 Prompt("Flashlight is on")
		else
			Prompt("Flashlight is off")
	 	end
	end
 end

Mine looked for a true / false value because the description said that was what it gave. I should have known that this was incorrect. Yep I just changed the true / false to 1 / 0 and it works perfectly.

Thanks for that

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