How do you save variables?

[Catastrophe]

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[Ijon Tichy]

Well, these days you have access to StrParam, so something like this would work

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function void saveCVar(int cvar, int val)
{
    int query = StrParam(s:"set ", s:cvar, s:" ", d:val);
    int query2 = StrParam(s:"archivecvar ", s:cvar);
    ConsoleCommand(query);
    ConsoleCommand(query2);
}

Note that this is EXTREMELY easy to screw with, so don't use it if you can avoid it.

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[Ijon Tichy]

If we're using it on the client side to save user variables:
> ACS script does saveCVar("herp_derp", 42)
> user promptly puts in "herp_derp 9239"
> later ACS script does GetCVar("herp_derp")

Yeah.

[Catastrophe]

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[Ivan]

The best method of doing it is the way the ranker works in Jumpmaze if it's essential to your game. Or else, the way ZH did their achievements could be a nice way for you.

Is it for hats/pets ? :P

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[Ivan]

Yep, I want to make it unlockable. How did ZH do it?

I wish I knew, I could use it or learn from it. :P

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[ZzZombo]

As I remember, ZH just encrypts their CVARs by some algorithm which was hacked later :(

[Ijon Tichy]

okay i'm back

Anyway to hide scripts? At least from an idiot that just lazily opened up slade?

you do realise it's a trivial matter to just do a diff on your config file and see which variables were added/removed/changed, right?

also, listacs

Yep, I want to make it unlockable. How did ZH do it?

if I had to guess, it used a multitude of obscurely named variables with some simple scrambling scheme, given how much of a pain in the ass it would be (and how completely useless it would be in this case) to add something like twofish encryption, considering we get all of four bytes to easily work with
I have no idea, considering I haven't so much as looked at ZH for months

proper encryption in ACS is likely to remain a hard problem for a long time, by the way - although if I'm wrong and there's already been a cipher function made for ACS, I'm all ears
dear god does it sound painful to port, though

[XutaWoo]

Keep in mind, most people have no obligation to play your mod. They just have to download it, and if they don't want it any more they can delete it and actually gain stuff. Granted, it's stuff they already had, but they're not wasting money or anything to gain it back.

Let people cheat if they want. If letting people have the unlockables would cause problems, the people who would unlock 'em would cause problems as well. Sure, people may be miffed when they spent however much time it takes to unlock the stuff and then a way to instantly unlock everything came out, but c'est la vie.

[Watermelon]

Blue msg me on TS (when you get back), I got a safe way to use StrParam cvar saving safely

[Zupoman]

Oh, I know how zh saves achievements. I know it because I was trying to find my .ini file, and looked at it "accidentally". Actually, it encodes it some way.

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x_zh_pro6=4632
x_zh_pro5=1728
x_zh_pro4=3438
x_zh_pro3=8740
x_zh_pro2=15687
x_zh_pro1=105468
x_zh_pro0=188
x_zh_global3=135280
x_zh_global2=119497
x_zh_global1=102768
x_zh_global0=130

Copy it into your ini file into correct place and you will have my achievements.

Tho, I think that this can be improved that just copying it to your .ini file won't give you all things.

I've never messed up with those CVAR things, so I may say something stupid, but:

You can try dividing/multipling those variables with things from playerinfo CCMD, causing some magic effects, and then encoding it by multipling/dividing them again, but oppositely. This can give you big advantage over those biatches that want everything free for them.