Multiboard Question

[Evil_Redneck]

For my map I want all players to have their own multiboard, but I can't find a specific action that is "show/hide multiboard for specific player". It seems that You can only have one multiboard open at a time. I know that there is a way, but I'm not sure where it is.

I know you can create Leaderboards for a specific player, but I can't seem to find a way to do this for multiboards. Here's what I was wanting to do with the multiboard for 8 specific units:

Multiboard Template

Status Board Template
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Health | Survivivor's Current Health/MaxHealth |
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Energy | Survivor's Current Mana/Max Mana |
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Hunger | Survivors Hunger 0%-500% | (500% = Death)
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Fatigue | Survivors Fatigue 0-100% |
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Currency| Survivor's Currency/Trade Items |
-----------------------------------------------|
Skill Pts | Survivor's available skillpoints |
------------------------------------------------

Like I said Each player would have their own status board. Would I have to use the Leaderboard instead?

 

[watermelon_1234]

You could try creating X multiboards and then disable visibility of that multiboard for all players except for the player that should see his own. This can be done with GetLocalPlayer

X = the number of players that should see their own individual multiboard.

There's a good thread that has a similar problem with multiboards that could be helpful.

 

[sephiroth1234]

It is done like this.......

if GetLocalPlayer() == YOUR_PLAYER then
//CREATE YOUR MULTIBOARD HERE
endif

 

[jk2pach]

It is done like this.......

if GetLocalPlayer() == YOUR_PLAYER then
//CREATE YOUR MULTIBOARD HERE
endif

Definitely not. You will create a desync.

The good way is:

if GetLocalPlayer() == YOUR_PLAYER then
//DISPLAY YOUR MULTIBOARD HERE
endif

In other words: you have X players. You need to create 10 multiboards.

Then, you display/hide the boards for the players.

On multiboards, only the display can be changed depending on the player. Not the creation/modification.

 

[Evil_Redneck]

Ok, I haven't ever used jass, but I can kind of understand it's concept, not saying I know how to use it though. So lets say I make a multiboard and make it a variable, each variable array represents a player (1-8)

Would the code look like this?

if GetLocalPlayer(1) == YOUR_PLAYER then
//DISPLAY Multiboard(1)
endif

or maybe:

if GetLocalPlayer() == player 1 then
//DISPLAY Multiboard(1)
endif

I haven't ever attempted to learn jass so I wouldn't be surprised if this is fail or not.

 

[sephiroth1234]

In GUI, it would be like this....

• Trigger
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: if GetLocalPlayer() == YOUR_PLAYER then
    • Display your multiboard here
    • Custom script: endif

 

[Tirlititi]

You can replace the "YOUR_PLAYER" by :

if GetLocalPlayer() == ConvertedPlayer(1) then
if GetLocalPlayer() == Player(0) then // Same as above but you subtract 1.
if GetLocalPlayer() == ConvertedPlayer(bj_forLoopAIndex) then // For loops.
if GetLocalPlayer() == GetTriggerPlayer() then // For event response.

You can actually put a lot of things. You just need to know the functions' name which are listed in Common.j and Blizzard.j files or here for instance.