What are you working on? :D

[Orion63]

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It wouldn't make sense starting at -1, since it's a simple counter. Add 1 when you find a asteroid, that's it.

Also the 0 starting thing, does not even apply to Lua.
While it supports it 0-starting arrays, Lua's idiom is to start at index 1. Unlike the bazilion programming languages that actually start at 0(Due to C influence).
Either way, it does not change the fact that it has nothing to do with it.

If the code doesn't work(Highly likely), it's not that.

[Aino]

Then add an "or 0" the the end... Easy way to handle nil's

Edit: Uhhm, it's "or numberOfRoids" not 0, cause 0 will make the variable 0!

Edit 2: doing edits rapidly here, but: This should be added to one of the tutorials, it'll make life easy for some programmers atleast

[Pilchard123]

W/ever, I'll do it the old-fashioned way, by hand.

[Aino]

W/ever, I'll do it the old-fashioned way, by hand.

[Aino]

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It wouldn't make sense starting at -1, since it's a simple counter. Add 1 when you find a asteroid, that's it.

Also the 0 starting thing, does not even apply to Lua.
While it supports it 0-starting arrays, Lua's idiom is to start at index 1. Unlike the bazilion programming languages that actually start at 0(Due to C influence).
Either way, it does not change the fact that it has nothing to do with it.

If the code doesn't work(Highly likely), it's not that.

Heh, but the Asteroid ID's in the game starts at 0, and you don't wanna miss any of them? And it'll run a nil roid at the end, so it would be catastrophic!

Ask any programmer, things in the PC world starts with 0 usually, but Lua's arrays are intended to start at 1 so humans can easily pick it up I guess

[Orion63]

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function GetAsteroidNumber()
numberOfRoids = 0
for empireID = 0, GetNumFactions() - 1 do

     numberOfRoids = numberOfRoids + GetEmpire(empireID):GetNumOwnedAsteroids()

    end

    return numberOfRoids

end
This work. Tested on two built in maps.
Have fun, kids

Nice meme, Aino ^^

[Aino]

U tried running a code on the value? I think it will cause a crash o.O

[kmercy]

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function Num()
asteroidnum = 0

for d = 0, 100 do
if GetAsteroid(d) ~= nil then
if GetAsteroid(d).radius > 5 then
asteroidnum = asteroidnum + 1
end
end
end
Pause()
MessageBox(asteroidnum)
WaitDialog()
Unpause()
end
Simple

[Pilchard123]

FUN FACT: I'm an IDIOT!

All/Most of the codes posted work fine. However, if you put them in LevelSetup, they don't take into account any asteroids added randomly, since these are added AFTER LevelSetup. Can you guess where I was counting the asteroids? 

Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

[kmercy]

FUN FACT: I'm an IDIOT!

All/Most of the codes posted work fine. However, if you put them in LevelSetup, they don't take into account any asteroids added randomly, since these are added AFTER LevelSetup. Can you guess where I was counting the asteroids?  

Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

Another fun fact thats why its a function so use it where you want

[Orion63]

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Heh, but the Asteroid ID's in the game starts at 0, and you don't wanna miss any of them? And it'll run a nil roid at the end, so it would be catastrophic!

Ask any programmer, things in the PC world starts with 0 usually, but Lua's arrays are intended to start at 1 so humans can easily pick it up I guess

Not the problem, because it's not what I am doing in the code.
In the code, I am looping through all empires(which start by zero), and using the GetNumOwnedAsteroids built-in, which returns the number of asteroids.

i.e.
Empire 0 has 2 roids / Empire 1 has 7 roids / Empire 2 has 6 roids

GetNumFactions will return 3, so I need to loop between 0 and the last empire(which is GetNumFactions() - 1, because indeed it starts at zero)

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numberOfRoids = numberOfRoids + GetEmpire(empireID):GetNumOwnedAsteroids()This on the first run will return 2
On the second it will return 2 + 7 = 9
On the third run it will run 9 + 6 = 15

And in the end returns the last result, which is 15.(What I am not entirely sure, is if empty asteroids have a empire assigned to them. If not, this won't work...)

[kmercy]

Not the problem, because it's not what I am doing in the code.
In the code, I am looping through all empires(which start by zero), and using the GetNumOwnedAsteroids built-in, which returns the number of asteroids.

i.e.
Empire 0 has 2 roids / Empire 1 has 7 roids / Empire 2 has 6 roids

GetNumFactions will return 3, so I need to loop between 0 and the last empire(which is GetNumFactions() - 1, because indeed it starts at zero)

Code:
numberOfRoids = numberOfRoids + GetEmpire(empireID):GetNumOwnedAsteroids()
This on the first run will return 2
On the second it will return 2 + 7 = 9
On the third run it will run 9 + 6 = 15

And in the end returns the last result, which is 15.(What I am not entirely sure, is if empty asteroids have a empire assigned to them. If not, this won't work...)

Thats why you just use what i posted

[Orion63]

Not the problem, because it's not what I am doing in the code.
In the code, I am looping through all empires(which start by zero), and using the GetNumOwnedAsteroids built-in, which returns the number of asteroids.

i.e.
Empire 0 has 2 roids / Empire 1 has 7 roids / Empire 2 has 6 roids

GetNumFactions will return 3, so I need to loop between 0 and the last empire(which is GetNumFactions() - 1, because indeed it starts at zero)

Code:
numberOfRoids = numberOfRoids + GetEmpire(empireID):GetNumOwnedAsteroids()
This on the first run will return 2
On the second it will return 2 + 7 = 9
On the third run it will run 9 + 6 = 15

And in the end returns the last result, which is 15.(What I am not entirely sure, is if empty asteroids have a empire assigned to them. If not, this won't work...)

Thats why you just use what i posted

Yap, yours will run even if empty asteroids are not assigned to empires

[Pilchard123]

Empty asteroids belong to Empire 0, the greys.

[Aino]

I guess I was wrong