Player online check.....

[MrLoathsome]

Need/want my mutator to go to "sleep" if there are no players on the server.

Currently I am using this bit of code for that:

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function bool PlayerOn()
{
	local pawn P;

	for ( P=Level.PawnList; P!=None; P=P.nextPawn )
		if (PlayerPawn(P) != None) return true;
	return false;
}

Is there a faster way to accomplish this goal? Function is not called in Tick or anything stupid like that, but it is
called in a Timer function, and would like to make it as optimal as possible. (Performance-wise)

*Edit:
Is there a way to rewrite that function so it traverses the PawnList backwards?
Occurs to me that any player pawns would be at or near the end of the list.
Could bypass all the default pawns in the map/game with this check if the list could
be processed backwards. (I think..... )

[Barbie]

The best place to check this would be the event "Logout", but it is only available in GameInfo but not in Mutator class.

Using Level.GameInfo.NumPlayers is not an option?

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function bool PlayerOn() {
   return Level.GameInfo.NumPlayers > 0;
}

This one line accessing a variable does not make stress in a Timer() function.

[MrLoathsome]

DERP!

Thanks Barbie.

I knew there was a better way, but my brain was just drawing a blank.

Note: This compiles better:

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function bool PlayerOn()
{
	local pawn P;

	return Level.Game.NumPlayers > 0;
}

[sektor2111]

As I recall in a nearby post you said that we want to work with Bots not against them. This NumPlayers it's addressing PlayerPawn. Bot has another formula called NumBots if memory doesn't cheat me and was implemented in a later stuff also called DeathMatchPlus. So I'm guessing:

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if (DeathMatchPlus(Level.game) != None)
return (DeathMatchPlus(Level.Game).NumPlayers + DeathMatchPlus(Level.Game).NumBots) > 0;
return false;

In hoping to not mess with Botz or other "players".

[Higor]

Just scan for bIsPlayer PlayerReplicationInfo actors.
The game's GameReplicationInfo actor will scan them for you every 2 seconds, just loop those 32 slots.