Get all ammo amounts from player?

[Otoris]

Here is the general idea, I'm trying to make a script that cycles through all the player's ammo types and stores the type and amount of ammo in a table to store in a database. As far as I can see, nothing like this has been done, and there is no Player:GetAllAmmo() function in GMod. Does anyone have a way to do this? All help/suggestions are appreciated!

Thanks!

[Entoros]

You want something like this?
[lua]local function StorePlayerAmmo(ply)
local ret = {}
for _,v in ipairs(ply:GetWeapons()) do
table.insert(ret,{v:GetPrimaryAmmoType(),v:Clip1()})
end
return ret
end[/lua]

Returns a table of tables, where each subtable has a [1] of the PrimaryAmmoType and a [2] of the number of primary ammo.

Alternatively, you could do where the key is the ammotype and the value is the number of bullets, like so:

[lua]local function StorePlayerAmmo(ply)
local ret = {}
for _,v in ipairs(ply:GetWeapons()) do
ret[v:GetPrimaryAmmoType()] == v:Clip1()
end
return ret
end[/lua]

However, this would mean that if two guns had the same ammo type then it wouldn't register both of them, just the next one in the loop.

[Otoris]

What would be the best way to store this in a sql lite database? I got stuck on that part, also the reading and setting of the ammo tables. Thanks!

[Entoros]

I would recommend using glon to either store it in a database or write it to a file. You could also use util.KeyValuesToTable, but that wouldn't be nearly as efficient.