Is the only way to detect a JIP player that was not present at mission start with IsNull Player in Init.sqf?

[Guest]

I've been digging around both here on the forums and with google trying to find a way to detect when a player has JIP'd which was not there at mission start so I can teleport them to "waiting area" for the mission to be finished by those already playing because the Coop mission is not technically Jip compatible.

 

All I've found is a few posts indicating to use IsNull Player in the Init.sqf. Problem here, is that I have also been told that it is possible that even for players that are there *at* mission start - there is a chance that a player may not yet be fully initialized in the Init.sqf and therefore "Player" can actually be temporarily Null even for someone that was there at mission start - and that would be very Bad, as then the JIP code would run on the wrong players.

 

If this is all we have, I can't help but wonder why Bis has not provided a simple command that could either provide a list of players that were there at mission start (to compare to any Jip'ers so we know the difference) or a way to identify Jip'ers directly.

 

This is the bit of code I picked up, pretty basic, but again, kind of questionable to at least me as to the safety of it for players that were there at mission start:

 

Init.Sqf:

if (!isServer && isNull player) then //JIP player { waitUntil {!isNull player}; [] execVM "scripts\initTeleportToSL.sqf"; };

[fn_Quiksilver 1633]

// initPlayerLocal.sqf
if (didJIP) then {
     [] execVM "scripts\initTeleportToSL.sqf";
};

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/didJIP

[hoverguy 177]

// initPlayerLocal.sqf
if (didJIP) then {
     [] execVM "scripts\initTeleportToSL.sqf";
};

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/didJIP

initPlayerLocal.sqf

if(_this select 1) then
{
    // Do stuff
};

[Guest]

// initPlayerLocal.sqf
if (didJIP) then {
     [] execVM "scripts\initTeleportToSL.sqf";
};

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/didJIP

 

 

 

Thanks!

 

Wow, didn't even know such a command existed, nor never saw a reference to such a thing amongst the topics I searched through. That is way to easy lol.

 

 

initPlayerLocal.sqf

if(_this select 1) then
{
    // Do stuff
};

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

What does _this Select 1 refer to from the initPlayerLocal.sqf ?

 

Also, why would this method be more desirable than the DidJip command when it seems that DidJip should safely cover all Jip's after mission start?

[jshock 512]

 

What does _this Select 1 refer to from the initPlayerLocal.sqf ?

 

Also, why would this method be more desirable than the DidJip command when it seems that DidJip should safely cover all Jip's after mission start?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Event_Scripts

 

It's a boolean passed into the initPlayerLocal.sqf.

[Guest]

Thanks for the link there. Good to know.

 

Being able to detect Jip players via either method is definitely good to have, I was really not looking forward to finding a workaround in a couple of scripts, now solved with a very quick query.