Lua Challenge: the Catastrophes plugin

[tonibm19]

I'm open to everything, but one thing I'll do for sure is acid rain (it's not a natural disaster but I want to do it)

[tonibm19]

One question: When using ForEachPlayer, what players are looped first? Is it random?
If it isnt, anyway to choose a random player fastly and easily?
Also, is there anyway to get a random x, y, z in a loaded chunk without loading it? (Only random between loaded chunks)

[NiLSPACE]

I'm guessing it's in the order the player's joined.

What you can do is get the number of players, create a random number between 0 and that number, and then take player <nr> from that number.

-- NumPlayers is for example 10
local RandomPlayer = math.random(NumPlayers)
local CurrentPlayer = 0
World:ForEachPlayer(
   function()
      CurrentPlayer = CurrentPlayer + 1
      if (CurrentPlayer == RandomPlayer) then
         --- Do things
         return true -- we did what we wanted with the player
      end
   end
)

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Get a random x, y, z in a loaded chunk without loading it? Whut? Assuming you meant unloaded chunk. Can't you just use:

local X = math.random(15)
local Y = math.random(255)
local Z = math.random(15)

[tonibm19]

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Get a random x, y, z in a loaded chunk without loading it? Whut? Assuming you meant unloaded chunk. Can't you just use:

local X = math.random(15)
local Y = math.random(255)
local Z = math.random(15)

I meant getting random coordinates only inside loaded chunks

[NiLSPACE]

The only method that might work is cWorld:TryGetHeight. With that you can check if a chunk is loaded.

[NiLSPACE]

I suppose it's kinda working:

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TOO MUCH!

[xoft]

There's currently no cWorld:ForEachChunk() API function which would help you, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add it.

[NiLSPACE]

Apache License 2.0 is allowed right?

[NiLSPACE]

That moment when you realize you are really cruel for the villagers:


It really killed the performance though:


I'll have to randomize it, but it looks less good if I do that

Btw, I had had a question about the license above here

[jan64]

So, we need luajit!