Question about Pointshop 1 abilities

[iViscosity]

Was wondering if there was a way to set a "cooldown" on an item, like they can only buy an item once per map. I have two things I custom made in my Pointshop, a Detective Round and Traitor Round; their purpose is obvious. Now, what I wanted to do was make it so it could only be bought once per map (or once per x minutes or x rounds), is there anything built into Pointshop that can accomplish this?

[JamminR]

No clue pointshop 1 vs pointshop 2.
Found this -
http://pointshop.burt0n.net/items/functions

If the same hooks exist, I don't see why you couldn't set a normal timer variable like any other cooldown, or no more until map reload method using item:onbuy, have canplayerbuy return false if the variable is set.

[iViscosity]

Hm... I'll give it a shot.


Have a quick question about CurTime... if I were to use something like

Code: Lua

1. timer.Simple( ( cvars.Number( "mp_timelimit" ) - CurTime() ) -- blah blah

would that return the amount of time left in the current map?

[iViscosity]

Code: Lua

1. ITEM.Name = 'Detective Round'
2. ITEM.Price = 10000
3. ITEM.Material = 'vgui/ttt/icon_det.vmt'
4. ITEM.SingleUse = true
5.  
6. ITEM.SubCategory = 'Temporary Powerups'
7.  
8. function ITEM:OnBuy( ply )
9.  
10.         hook.Add( "TTTBeginRound", "Give D Round", function()
11.  
12.                 if !( ply:HasItem( 'detective_round' ) ) then return end
13.                
14.                 if ply:GetRole() == ROLE_INNOCENT then
15.  
16.                         timer.Simple( 1, function()
17.  
18.                                 ply:SetRole( ROLE_DETECTIVE )
19.  
20.                                 if !( ULib == nil ) then
21.  
22.                                         ULib.tsayColor( ply, "", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "You have been made a ", Color( 25, 25, 200 ), "Detective ", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "by your Pointshop item." )
23.  
24.                                 end
25.                                 ply:AddCredits( 1 )
26.                                 ply:TakeItem( 'detective_round' )
27.                                
28.                         end )
29.  
30.                 elseif ply:GetRole() == ROLE_TRAITOR then
31.  
32.                         timer.Simple( 1, function()
33.  
34.                                 if !( ULib == nil ) then
35.  
36.                                         ULib.tsayColor( ply, "", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "Your", Color( 25, 25, 200 ), " Detective ", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "round was refunded due to being a ", Color( 200, 25, 25 ), "Traitor", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), ". Please purchase the item again." )
37.  
38.                                 end
39.                                
40.                                 ply:PS_SellItem( 'detective_round' )
41.                                 ply:TakeItem( 'detective_round' )
42.  
43.                         end )
44.  
45.                 elseif ply:GetRole() == ROLE_DETECTIVE then
46.  
47.                         if !( ULib == nil ) then
48.  
49.                                 ULib.tsayColor( ply, "", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "Your", Color( 25, 25, 200 ), " Detective ", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), "round was refunded due to being a ", Color( 25, 25, 200 ), "Detective", Color( 255, 255, 255 ), ". Please purchase the item again." )
50.  
51.                         end
52.                                
53.                         ply:PS_SellItem( 'detective_round' )
54.  
55.                 end
56.  
57.         end )
58.  
59.         ply:SetPData( "purchased", "true" )
60.  
61.         timer.Create( "Delay In Purchase", 60, ( cvars.Number( "mp_timelimit" ) - CurTime() ), function()
62.  
63.                 ply:RemovePData( "purchased" )
64.  
65.         end )
66.  
67. end
68.  
69. function ITEM:CanPlayerBuy( ply )
70.  
71.         if ply:GetPData( "purchased" ) == "true" then
72.                
73.                 return false
74.  
75.         else
76.  
77.                 return true
78.  
79.         end
80.  
81. end

Is this the kind of timer I'd use? I think I did it right. I used PData because I'm familiar with it, and I'd assume that

Code: Lua

1. cvars.Number( "mp_timelimit" - CurTime()

would return the rest of time left in the map, if I'm not wrong.

[iViscosity]

So, really, the question of my last comment is 'am I wrong?'

[JamminR]

Have a quick question about CurTime... if I were to use something like

Code: Lua

1. timer.Simple( ( cvars.Number( "mp_timelimit" ) - CurTime() ) -- blah blah

would that return the amount of time left in the current map?

Not quite.
mp_timelimit is minutes, CurTime is seconds. You'd need conversion.