Getting player object based on name.

[Aki]

There are two lua commands: say and echo. I'm trying to make small script for... reasons. But I'm having hard time to get player object based on name, I have tried various function names on Server() or sender or Player()but none of them was successful. I know that I just need playerIndex from somewhere (based on sender).

 

Thanks in advance.

[koonschi]

It depends on the context of the script. Client scripts can just call Player(), while server scripts generally have to use Galaxy():findFaction(name). If you're editing a player script on the server, call getParentFaction(), it will return the player.

[Aki]

Thank you! So it was Galaxy()... Now when I think of it. It makes sense, because playerIndex is faction (some bug report told me about it) and after all our names are faction names. Now I'm angry on myself for not figuring that out.

 

Thanks again!

[Best4Gamers]

just figured out how to spawn player ships with full weapons and modules ... then hell broke loose LOL spawned 100 ships

 

my script broke again hahaha