server first announcements thru quest system

**Shin Noir** · #1 09-19-2009, 11:42 PM

It should. There may be an issue with scripts in the zone folder conflicting with the templates folder, just for testing try to put the player.pl inside the zone you're inside, and #reloadpl

**Shin Noir** · #2 09-19-2009, 11:52 PM

Some quest coder should help me out here.. I'm not very familiar with it. :/ but!
LoadPlayerScript() function in embparser.cpp
it does this whole..

Code:

string filename= "quests/";
	filename += zone;
	filename += "/player.pl";
	string packagename = "player";
	packagename += "_";
	packagename += zone;

build of the quests\zone\player.pl directory.. tries to eval it

Code:

try {
		perl->eval_file(packagename.c_str(), filename.c_str());
	}

then if it doesn't load,

Code:

if(!isloaded(packagename.c_str()))
	{
		filename = "quests/";
		filename += QUEST_TEMPLATES_DIRECTORY;
		filename += "/player.pl";

try templates. So if I'm not corrected, if a /<zone>/player.pl exists, it stops the parser from loading /templates/player.pl?

nightsta69 · #3 09-20-2009, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shin Noir

Some quest coder should help me out here.. I'm not very familiar with it. :/ but!
LoadPlayerScript() function in embparser.cpp
it does this whole..

Code:

string filename= "quests/";
	filename += zone;
	filename += "/player.pl";
	string packagename = "player";
	packagename += "_";
	packagename += zone;

build of the quests\zone\player.pl directory.. tries to eval it

Code:

try {
		perl->eval_file(packagename.c_str(), filename.c_str());
	}

then if it doesn't load,

Code:

if(!isloaded(packagename.c_str()))
	{
		filename = "quests/";
		filename += QUEST_TEMPLATES_DIRECTORY;
		filename += "/player.pl";

try templates. So if I'm not corrected, if a /<zone>/player.pl exists, it stops the parser from loading /templates/player.pl?

curiousity question, if I were to just take this code, and make it so it loads both player.pl, what would be wrong with that?

nightsta69 · #4 09-21-2009, 03:16 AM

anyone have a solution for this that doesn't involve copying and pasting into the 20 somethin odd player.pl's in the quest folder? and i'm still wondering what would happen if the source was changed to allow to load both, the player.pl's that are in the zone folders, as well as the templates one.

nightsta69 · #5 09-19-2009, 11:56 PM

did as suggested, tried it with the guild lobby, cut/paste the player.pl and #reloadpl, and worked. cut/paste back into templates folder, #reloadpl, doesn't work. now what I don't understand is there isn't anything in the guild lobby folder, cept the guildhall instance creation script, so i'm not seeing what would be conflicting with the EVENT_LEVEL_UP. btw is there a way to broadcast, instead of having "$name shouts, blah blah blah". was looking more for a system msg world wide, then having the player shout it world wide.