Search object and turfs in oview? in Developer Help

ID:156727
 
Aug 8 2010, 4:16 pm
How would I go about looking for objects and turfs in someones view and creating thunder over that object/turf?

Here's what I got so far: This is just for the object: Water.

                        var/obj/O=/obj/Water3
                        for(O in oview(3,src))
                            var/obj/Thunder/C=new(O.loc)
                            for(var/mob/M in range(0,C))
                                if(M!=src||M!=src.Ally)
                                    src.Electrify(M)
#1 Aug 8 2010, 4:38 pm
You'd want for(var/obj/Water3/O in oview(3,src))
#2 Aug 8 2010, 5:22 pm
In response to Garthor (#1)
Garthor wrote:
You'd want for(var/obj/Water3/O in oview(3,src))

Alright I got that down but how would I include the loop to also look for "turf/Water"?
#3 Aug 8 2010, 5:41 pm
In response to AbdelJN (#2)
For multiple types, you'll need to broaden the scope of the search and then filter them manually, so:

for(var/atom/A in oview(3,src))
  var/turf/target_loc
  if(istype(A, /turf/Water))
    target_loc = A
  else if(istype(A, /obj/Water3))
    target_loc = A.loc
  if(target_loc)
    //do stuff
#4 Aug 8 2010, 7:00 pm
In response to Garthor (#3)
Garthor wrote:
For multiple types, you'll need to broaden the scope of the search and then filter them manually, so:

for(var/atom/A in oview(3,src))
>   var/turf/target_loc
>   if(istype(A, /turf/Water))
>     target_loc = A
>   else if(istype(A, /obj/Water3))
>     target_loc = A.loc
>   if(target_loc)
>     //do stuff

Thank you ^.^ It's working 100%.