New alternative to GetUnitType?

[Mahado]

Basically my question is: What is the new alternative for GetUnitType? I want to know if there is simple method to check if the target is player, couldn't find any so far.

Unless of course GetUnitType is coming back or something.

- Mahado

 

[Tommy]

I'm not entirely sure why that was removed in the first place, and I don't know why we don't have 'GetTypeId' or an alternative..

I added 'GetTypeId()': https://github.com/ElunaLuaEngine/Eluna/commit/e1208437835d59015a94bf8051830ffbc29b14b0

http://wiki.emudevs.com/doku.php?id=eluna_object_method_gettypeid

You can use it like this for example:

local player = nil
if (unit:GetTypeId() == 4) -- 4 = Player
    player = unit:ToPlayer()

 

[Rochet2]

GetObjectType returns the class name for ALL objects.
IE for player it returns "Player"

 

[Tommy]

GetObjectType returns the class name for ALL objects.
IE for player it returns "Player"

I looked for that second, but I didn't expect it to be in LuaEngine.h.. I see it. Was looking for it in LuaFunctions.cpp.

 

[Rochet2]

I looked for that second, but I didn't expect it to be in LuaEngine.h.. I see it. Was looking for it in LuaFunctions.cpp.

Its in the pushing function since it grabs the value registered for the class (type name). Its a method that all pushed objects have by default.
I just thought to make it automatic since you can. Not to write separate ones for each class we have registered.

 

[Mahado]

Cheers! And yeah, GetUnitType was there before, since I used it on couple of my scripts and they won't recognize it anymore. But, I'll those try those that you guys suggested, thanks!

Edit: Now all works, thanks again.

 

[Foereaper]

Marking as solved