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Works as expected.
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GetGameHost
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- Antares
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- 2.05 KB
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- Created
- May 29, 2025
- Updated
- May 29, 2025
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This bundle is marked as recommended. It works and satisfies the submission rules.
This snippet retrieves the game host of a lobby. Credits for the idea of the method go to TriggerHappy (so I am told).
GUI users: Create a global named GameHost and change the GameHost in the code to udg_GameHost.
GUI users: Create a global named GameHost and change the GameHost in the code to udg_GameHost.
Lua:
if Debug then Debug.beginFile "GetGameHost" end
do
--=============================================================================================================================================================
--Retrieves the game host and stores it in the global GameHost. The game host is not available directly after map initialization, but only after one sync cycle.
--=============================================================================================================================================================
local startTime = os.clock()
local timeDeltas = {}
local function SyncTimeDelta()
if BlzGetTriggerSyncPrefix() ~= "SyncTimeDelta" then
return
end
local data = BlzGetTriggerSyncData()
local playerId, delta = data:match("(\x25d+),(.+)")
timeDeltas[tonumber(playerId)] = delta
local player
for i = 0, bj_MAX_PLAYER_SLOTS - 1 do
player = Player(i)
if not timeDeltas[i] and GetPlayerSlotState(player) == PLAYER_SLOT_STATE_PLAYING and GetPlayerController(player) == MAP_CONTROL_USER then
return
end
end
local highestDelta
local highestId
for playerId, delta in pairs(timeDeltas) do
if not highestDelta or delta > highestDelta then
highestDelta = delta
highestId = playerId
end
end
GameHost = Player(highestId)
DestroyTrigger(GetTriggeringTrigger())
end
local old = MarkGameStarted
MarkGameStarted = function()
old()
local trig = CreateTrigger()
for i = 0, bj_MAX_PLAYER_SLOTS - 1 do
BlzTriggerRegisterPlayerSyncEvent(trig, Player(i), "SyncTimeDelta", false)
end
TriggerAddAction(trig, SyncTimeDelta)
local endTime = os.clock()
local delta = endTime - startTime
BlzSendSyncData("SyncTimeDelta", GetPlayerId(GetLocalPlayer()) .. ",".. tostring(delta))
end
endContents
GetGameHost (Binary)
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Warcraft Moderator
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Shouldn't this reference (bj_MAX_PLAYER_SLOTS - 1) as well?
You know, just in case Blizzard ups the player count after fixing the 500 other bugs 
Lua:
for i = 0, 23 do
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I'll allow it 
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