0000516: thingCountName( "DoomPlayer", 0 )

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0000516

Zandronum

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2011-07-13 23:41

2011-07-14 00:14

Reporter

Positron

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Torr Samaho

Priority

high

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

no change required

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Microsoft

Windows

OS Version

XP/Vista/7

Product Version

98d

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Fixed in Version

Summary

0000516: thingCountName( "DoomPlayer", 0 )

Description

When you want to count the number of alive players in the game, you might use the following statement: thingCountName( "DoomPlayer", 0 ). It works fine for the most part but breaks in some cases.

In coop, it breaks when someone spectates. For example: if you have two players in-game and one of them spectates, the function will continue to report that two players are in game. You can then rejoin the game and the count will get incremented to 3. Repeat to increase the count farther.

In Survival, the count includes eliminated players. It works fine when the player is in the death sequence but as soon as the player joins the spectating team, it starts to include the eliminated player.

I haven't tested this function in other game modes.

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(0001903) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2011-07-14 00:14 edited on: 2011-07-14 00:18	Technically a spectator body is of type DoomPlayer (at least if the former player was of type DoomPlayer), so this is not a bug. You are trying to abuse a function for something that it's not intended to do. ThingCountName also counts voodoo dolls which is a clear indication that it's not doing what you want it to. Use the ACS function PlayerCount instead. This should do what you need and is actually intended to do so.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-07-13 23:41	Positron	New Issue
2011-07-14 00:14	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0001903
2011-07-14 00:14	Torr Samaho	Status	new => closed
2011-07-14 00:14	Torr Samaho	Assigned To	=> Torr Samaho
2011-07-14 00:14	Torr Samaho	Resolution	open => no change required
2011-07-14 00:15	Torr Samaho	Note Edited: 0001903	View Revisions
2011-07-14 00:18	Torr Samaho	Note Edited: 0001903	View Revisions
2012-06-09 13:22	Torr Samaho	Category	General => Bug

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