Smartness

[CptFuzzies]

[quote=Facepunch][b]Smartness[/b]

These forums contain a smartness system. It detects common spelling/grammar mistakes and you lose points from your smartness level. If your points drop below a certain level you're automatically banned for a few days.

I know people will say "Hey we don't need this, you nazi". But we really do. People are idiots.

If you make a mistake and correct it you will regain your points.

If your mistakes aren't highlighted red then the problem was probably because you typed quite a lot and didn't use a single capital letter.
Grammar Lesson

[list]
[*] Your - your house, your mom, your shoes.
[*] You're - Short for "you are". You're stupid.
[*] there - over there, it's there.
[*] their - their shoes, their hat, their mom
[*] they're - they are; they're stupid idiots
[*] were - they were nice, his shoes were painted on
[*] we're - we are; we're going to the zoo
[*] where - where was it, where can we go
[/list]

So their you go, you're own little grammer lesson![/quote]

[release][b]Smartness[/b]

[i]Currently in livetime development at:[/i] [url=steam://connect/68.227.240.182:27015/]flaming-gummy-bear's Server![/url]

A recreation of Facepunch's old Smartness module.
[/release]

[media]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/flaming-gummy-bear/gm_flatgrass0001.jpg[/media]

[b]Concepts:[/b]
:downs:
[list]
[*]Decreases with misspelling
[*]New player methods
[*]Increases with each post
[/list]

[b]Developer features:[/b]
:science:

[i]Added HUD Elements:[/i]

"CHudSmartness" - Displays your smartness in the style of a HL2 indicator, shows up next to your health or armor.

Disable using:

[lua]local function HUDShouldDraw( name )

// So we don't draw smartness on the HUD
if ( name == "CHudSmartness" ) then return false end

end[/lua]

[i]New methods:[/i]

Player:AddSmartness( [i]int[/i] smartness ) - Adds to a player's smartness
Player:GetSmartness() - Retrieves the player's current smartness
Player:RemoveSmartness( [i]int[/i] smartness ) - Removes from a player's smartness
Player:SetSmartness( [i]int[/i] smartness ) - Sets a player's smartness

[i]Rating this dumb is ironic. Do it.[/i]

[highlight](User was autobanned for this post - ("Losing over 5000 smartness in a single post" ))[/highlight]

[Zulthus]

How does it go up? 1+1=2?

[CptFuzzies]

Yeah, I'm thinking it'll have a manifest of words that will determine when it goes down.

[Boozy&Bitter]

Memes should lower smartness. A 0 smartness results in constant death even when you spawn.

[CptFuzzies]

I think on Facepunch once you hit zero, you were banned for a while, I intend on doing the same for servers. I'll be using archive.org to reference the smartness junk from the past.

[Whitewater]

[QUOTE=Rubs10;17818619]Memes should lower smartness. A 0 smartness results in constant death even when you spawn.[/QUOTE]

Make them have to chat their way back to life!

[CptFuzzies]

Haha, maybe. But a 24h ban seems more conformist to the old module.

[editline]04:52PM[/editline]

Added a link to the server, currently up testing it out.

[A Zombie]

Wow, awesome.

[Crazy Quebec]

This system looks like it could be used as an automatic moderation system for much more then just spelling ( losing smartness for kills in serious build\rp ) . I like it! :smile:

[Bletotum]

Great idea.

[CptFuzzies]

[QUOTE=Crazy Quebec;17821065]This system looks like it could be used as an automatic moderation system for much more then just spelling ( losing smartness for kills in serious build\rp ) . I like it! :smile:[/QUOTE]

Completely possible.

[lua]
local function DumbPlayerDeath( Victim, Inflictor, Killer )

if ( !string.find( GAMEMODE.Name:lower(), "rp" ) ) then return end
if ( !Killer:IsValid() ) then return end
if ( !Killer:IsPlayer() ) then return end
if ( Killer:IsAdmin() ) then return end

Killer:RemoveSmartness( 100 )

end

hook.Add( "PlayerDeath", "DumbPlayerDeath", DumbPlayerDeath )
[/lua]

I've hatched little ideas out of the methods, such as a Dumbnade, players caught within the blast of the grenade lose dumbness based on distance from the epicentre.

[editline]08:09PM[/editline]

(I wanted to use "epicentre" instead of "epicenter", because it looks cooler.)

[Crazy Quebec]

In place of "bullet time" you could have "dumb time" where you gain smartness for doing dumb things. :v:

[Entoros]

While it sounds like an interesting idea, a Dumbnade would defeat the purpose of the addon. It's supposed to determine whether or not you're smart. An idiotic minge could take a Dumbnade and toss it into a group of intelligent builders, diligently working on their next contraption.

[CptFuzzies]

[QUOTE=Entoros;17821814]While it sounds like an interesting idea, a Dumbnade would defeat the purpose of the addon. It's supposed to determine whether or not you're smart. An idiotic minge could take a Dumbnade and toss it into a group of intelligent builders, diligently working on their next contraption.[/QUOTE]

It's really up to the idiotic developers.

[i]Gimme boxes. I wanna put my penis in them.[/i]

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Dick_in_a_Box.jpg[/img]

[editline]08:17PM[/editline]

Can anyone help me with a simple MySQL query? I've attempted to use the same type of system used to record ratings, as this is a similar concept, however it is not working at the moment.

I really don't want to have to result to something stupid like using .txt files to record player data.

Here's what I have so far:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/gmodplus/source/browse/trunk/lua/autorun/gmp_smartness_functions.lua[/url]

[Entoros]

I think you're doing a lot more than you need to. All you need is something like this:

[lua]sql.Query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS smartness('steam' TEXT NOT NULL, 'smarts' INTEGER NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY('steam'));")

function SaveData(pl)
sql.Query("UPDATE smartness SET smarts = "..pl:GetNWInt("Smartness").." WHERE steam = "..sql.SQLStr(pl:SteamID())..";")
end

function LoadData(pl)
ply:SetNWInt("Smartness",tonumber(sql.QueryValue("SELECT smarts FROM smartness WHERE steam = "..sql.SQLStr(pl:SteamID())..";")))
end[/lua]

Also, it would be more optimized if you saved the player's data to the SQLite database on disconnect rather than every time they lose/gain smarts.

[CptFuzzies]

In all honesty, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I have OCD that manifests within my coding, and have to have it a certain way just to comfort myself...

Is this conceptually valid code?

Internal: UpdatePlayerSmartness
[lua]/*---------------------------------------------------------
Name: Update the player's networkvars based on the DB
---------------------------------------------------------*/
local function UpdatePlayerSmartness( ply )

local result = sql.QueryValue( "SELECT int FROM smartness WHERE target = "..ply:UniqueID().." " )

if ( !result ) then return end

ply:SetNetworkedInt( "Smartness", tonumber( result ) )

end[/lua]

Player.SetSmartness
[lua]function meta:SetSmartness( smartness )

if ( !sv_smartness:GetBool() ) then return end

sql.Query( "UPDATE smartness SET int = "..tonumber( smartness ).." WHERE target = "..self:UniqueID().." " )

// We changed something so update the networked vars
UpdatePlayerSmartness( self )

end[/lua]

[Crazy Quebec]

Can I ask what font did you use to display the smartness amount?
Or if it's not a font then what is it?

I looked for it, checked the source, but no font I could find looked like it.. :frown:

[CptFuzzies]

You mean my replica of the HL2 HUD? I will gladly hand the code over my friend.

Here's my mimic of the sprint styled form, in which I take up the unused sprint HUD space for my ownership module.
[url]http://code.google.com/p/gmodplus/source/browse/trunk/lua/autorun/client/gmpcl_ownership_functions.lua[/url]

Here's another mimic using exactly what you asked for, the smartness display:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/gmodplus/source/browse/trunk/lua/autorun/client/gmpcl_smartness_functions.lua[/url]

These layouts are dependent on calculations from garrysmod/scripts/HudLayout.res, but do not use the actual file themselves. Rather, I took the measurement from there to replicate a clean display on the HUD.

Considering that ScreenScale isn't mathematically proportional to the actual scale of the end-user's screen, I wrote a correction and added it to the surface library, as to not overwrite a global function that many people already use.

Values within this file will help throw your positions in pixel perfect space.
[url]http://code.google.com/p/gmodplus/source/browse/trunk/lua/autorun/client/gmpcl_hud_functions.lua[/url]

[Crazy Quebec]

Thanks a lot! We need more persons like you around here!

[CptFuzzies]

You're welcome. :D I hope I can help out the community more in the future.

[CptFuzzies]

Just taught myself a little MySQL.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/flaming-gummy-bear/gm_flatgrass0015-1.jpg[/IMG]

:saddowns:

[CptFuzzies]

This is great, just implimented a SQL database for recording player smartness.

Flawless so far.

[ali3n92]

[QUOTE=CptFuzzies;17824267]Just taught myself a little MySQL.

[media]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/flaming-gummy-bear/gm_flatgrass0015-1.jpg[/media]

:saddowns:[/QUOTE]

It's under MINUS NINE THOUSAND!

[Squirrelz]

when would you ever need this?

[CptFuzzies]

When would you ever need 99.9% of ANYTHING made for Garry's Mod?
When would you ever NEED to play the game?

Go outside and exercise.

[highlight]CptFuzzies lost 10 smartness for this post.[/highlight]

In a related manner, does anyone remember what was attached to your post if you lost smartness? Or can bring back an archived thread of what was said for a good reference?

[Overv]

I think this is what you're looking for. Everyone is talking about words which caused smartness loss.
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=691368[/url]

[TehPeeMast3r]

Okay.. but this.... Do I need to finish this sentence..

[CptFuzzies]

[img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/heart.png[/img] Polite/Nice/Friendly x [b]5000[/b]

[sniperlover]

Hey CptFuzzies, can i talk to you over steam?

[CptFuzzies]

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