How to get if player is being carried. And if so, whose carrying the player?

[nicholas rickys]

I wanted to make a thing for a friend's character and mine, but I can't seem to find how i would get the player to check if its being carried. How would I go along with this?

 

[⛧Labyrinthia⛧]

In SRB2 2.1 there used to be a player state S_PLAY_CARRY that indicated whether or not a player was being carried.

Such state is missing from the 2.2 list of states however since the wiki page says that it might be incomplete, I believe it's worth a shot trying it out anyway:

Spoiler: Code

addHook("PlayerThink", function(player)
    if player.mo.state == S_PLAY_CARRY then
        print("Player is being carried!")
    end
end)

If this does not work then the state was probably renamed (I doubt it was removed because you  can still be carried by Tails).

If this  does work however, just beware that the player can be carried by more things than just Tails (Arid Canyon's belts for example). So you might have to throw a bit of extra logic in there to make sure it only works when a player object is carrying the player.

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EDIT
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Even though you already said you figured the carrying part out I'm adjusting my answer because the information above isn't correct.
As it seems, in SRB2 2.2 whether or not you're being carried (and by what) is controlled by the pw_carry power:

A little snippet from the respective wiki page:

[...]
The values for carry types are as follows:

Value	Name	Description
0	CR_NONE	Not being carried.
1	CR_GENERIC	Generic, default case for miscellaneous objects.
2	CR_PLAYER	Being carried by a flying Tails player.
3	CR_NIGHTSMODE	The player is currently in NiGHTS mode.
4	CR_NIGHTSFALL	The player has ran out of time in NiGHTS.
5	CR_BRAKGOOP	Stuck in old Brak Eggman's goop.
6	CR_ZOOMTUBE	Using a Zoom Tube.
7	CR_ROPEHANG	Using a Rope Hang.
8	CR_MACESPIN	Using a Mace swing.
9	CR_MINECART	Using a Minecart.
10	CR_ROLLOUT	Using a Rollout Rock.
11	CR_PTERABYTE	Being carried by a Pterabyte.
12	CR_DUSTDEVIL	Being carried by a Dust Devil.

[...]

So to check if you're being carried by a player you'd have simply have to check: if player.powers[pw_carry] & CR_PLAYER;
Or, alternatively, if player.powers[pw_carry] == 2 if you don't want to use the constants.
Either case can be done inside a "PlayerThink" or "ThinkFrame" hook, which you'll probably be using anyway for your logic.

 

[nicholas rickys]

In SRB2 2.1 there used to be a player state S_PLAY_CARRY that indicated whether or not a player was being carried.

Such state is missing from the 2.2 list of states however since the wiki page says that it might be incomplete, I believe it's worth a shot trying it out anyway:

Spoiler: Code

addHook("PlayerThink", function(player)
    if player.mo.state == S_PLAY_CARRY then
        print("Player is being carried!")
    end
end)

If this does not work then the state was probably renamed (I doubt it was removed because you  can still be carried by Tails).

If this  does work however, just beware that the player can be carried by more things than just Tails (Arid Canyon's belts for example). So you might have to throw a bit of extra logic in there to make sure it only works when a player object is carrying the player.

Thanks, but I already got a way. But for some reason, I can't get player inputs...

 

[⛧Labyrinthia⛧]

Thanks, but I already got a way. But for some reason, I can't get player inputs...

Would you mind specifying what inputs you want to get? Is it movement inputs or jumping, spindash, custom1/2/3 inputs?

 

[nicholas rickys]

Would you mind specifying what inputs you want to get? Is it movement inputs or jumping, spindash, custom1/2/3 inputs?

is custom 3, when i switch player.mo.tracer.player our with player, it works, but not with tracer

 

[⛧Labyrinthia⛧]

is custom 3, when i switch player.mo.tracer.player our with player, it works, but not with tracer

I'm not 100% sure, this is an issue I never encountered before, but if I'd take a guess I think it could be because the code is interpreting the player from player and the player from player.mo.tracer.player (the last player in the line) as the same thing.

If it's not too much trouble could you rename the player in your hooked function to something else? To anything really.
Do make sure the change any reference to it to the new name you gave it. Liiike so:

Spoiler: Code

addHook("PlayerThink", function(plyr)
    -- Whatever code you had up to this point

    -- "top level" player is now named plyr as defined in the function parameter.
    if plyr.mo.tracer.player.cmd.buttons & BT_CUSTOM3 then
        -- Player who is carrying this player is pressing/holding Custom 3
        print("Custom 3 is being pressed!")
    end
end)

 

[nicholas rickys]

I'm not 100% sure, this is an issue I never encountered before, but if I'd take a guess I think it could be because the code is interpreting the player from player and the player from player.mo.tracer.player (the last player in the line) as the same thing.

If it's not too much trouble could you rename the player in your hooked function to something else? To anything really.
Do make sure the change any reference to it to the new name you gave it. Liiike so:

Spoiler: Code

addHook("PlayerThink", function(plyr)
    -- Whatever code you had up to this point

    -- "top level" player is now named plyr as defined in the function parameter.
    if plyr.mo.tracer.player.cmd.buttons & BT_CUSTOM3 then
        -- Player who is carrying this player is pressing/holding Custom 3
        print("Custom 3 is being pressed!")
    end
end)

well, it is already named as p
i think the inputs for buttons are registered client-side instead, no?

 

[Sls64LGamingBro]

In SRB2 2.1 there used to be a player state S_PLAY_CARRY that indicated whether or not a player was being carried.

Such state is missing from the 2.2 list of states however since the wiki page says that it might be incomplete.

No actually, when 2.2 was released. S_PLAY_CARRY was renamed to S_PLAY_RIDE, meaning that you're still able to use that sprite for things.