Max amount of players on one team

[GUNH0G]

I am fairly new to lua and am wondering how to set the max amount of players on one team? thanks :D

[editline]01:54AM[/editline]

Any ideas? I'm working on a gamemode, and I'm pretty sure setting a max amount of players has something to do with setting the team to unjoinable? Not exactly sure :/

[Mistur Man]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Team.NumPlayers[/url]

Create an if statement to see whether it is equal or over a certain amount of players, if it is, don't allow them to join the team.

if (team.NumPlayers(1) >= 1) then
	return false
else
	return true
end;

[GUNH0G]

[QUOTE=Mistur Man;18039765][url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Team.NumPlayers[/url]

Create an if statement to see whether it is equal or over a certain amount of players, if it is, don't allow them to join the team.

if (team.NumPlayers(1) >= 1) then
	return false
else
	return true
end;

[/QUOTE]

How do you make a team not joinable?

[Crazy Quebec]

When a player wants to join that team simply return false. You could check some conditions to see if you want to allow that player in or not.

[GUNH0G]

[QUOTE=Crazy Quebec;18048158]When a player wants to join that team simply return false. You could check some conditions to see if you want to allow that player in or not.[/QUOTE]

Ah, thanks alot. Also, lets say my code was

 function CA( ply ) 
     if (team.NumPlayers(1) >= MaxCA) then
	 ply:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, "That team is full!" )
	 return false
     else
         ply:SetTeam( 4 ) 
	 ply:Spawn()
	 end
 end 

How would i make a command that would be typed in the console to set the value of MaxCA?
Thanks :D

[Crazy Quebec]

[lua]
maxCA = 3 -- Give it a starting value
local function SetMaxCA(ply,cmd,args)
local number = args[1]
if number and (number >= 0) and ply:IsAdmin() then
maxCA = number
end
end

concommand.Add("setmaxca",SetMaxCA)[/lua]
:eng101:

That should work, completely untested tough.

[GUNH0G]

[QUOTE=Crazy Quebec;18048700][lua]
maxCA = 3 -- Give it a starting value
local function SetMaxCA(ply,cmd,args)
local number = args[1]
if number and (number >= 0) and ply:IsAdmin() then
maxCA = number
end
end

concommand.Add("setmaxca",SetMaxCA)[/lua]
:eng101:

That should work, completely untested tough.[/QUOTE]

i get the error message

attempt to compare number with string

[Crazy Quebec]

Hmm, what did you enter? :confused: If it's a number it should work. The syntax is :
setmaxca #

Oh you probably need to do this :

local number = tonumber(args[1])

[GUNH0G]

[QUOTE=Crazy Quebec;18049176]Hmm, what did you enter? :confused: If it's a number it should work. The syntax is :
setmaxca #

Oh you probably need to do this :

local number = tonumber(args[1])[/QUOTE]

Thanks man it works! :D But, just wanted to ask (because I want to become better at lua) what exaclty is the tonumber for? :S

[Killer_Steel]

The tonumber I believe converts the number in the string to a number in code...I dunno, I'm just as new as you are :P.

[Mistur Man]

I'll give a little explanation. The function converts a string to a number, for example "1" would be a string, and 1 would be a number, so it takes the "1" out of the string and converts it to a number which you can perform arithmatic on, the string "1" could be "Sausages", however obviously tonumber would not work, since it's a word. I hope that's cleared things up a little, and not just made matters worse.

[GUNH0G]

Thanks to both of you, it does clear things up for me :D

[Crazy Quebec]

To add a bit :
tonumber() will also return nil when we give it anything else then a number.

so doing if number (in my code snippet) will effectively check if it's a real number or not.