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How to send message to player at takeoff?

How to send a message only to the player who has just taken off? I have this so far ...

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As you can see, I've tried sending the GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter text to ThePlane.AiActor.Name() and AiActor.Name() which produce errors. I guess I neeed to also test if the plane is AI or player controlled since I don't need to send a screen message to the AI.

You can use the Player(int placeindex) member of the AiAircraft Class:

For example
GamePlay.gpLogServer(new Player[] { (actor as AiAircraft).Player(0) }, " Test ", null);

You should test the null value, if null no human player (Ai).

To send the message to all possible players in an Aircraft:

Code:

for (int i = 0; i < aircraft.Places(); i++)

            if (aircraft.Player(i) != null)

                GamePlay.gpLogServer(new Player[] {aircraft.Player(i)}, " Test ", null);

Thankyou for your quick reply Kodiak

C# allows for many methods, Kodiak always seems to come up with nice examples :)

I am using this method with success, it is from the collection of samples from this forum.
What is nice is different msg's to team and plane type.

Code:

 public override void OnPlaceEnter(Player player, AiActor actor, int placeIndex)

    {

        base.OnPlaceEnter(player, actor, placeIndex);

        AiAircraft aircraft = actor as AiAircraft; 

        

        if (aircraft != null)

        switch (aircraft.Army())

        {                

            case 1:

                if (aircraft.Type() == AircraftType.Bomber)

                { GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(new Player[] { player},"Red Bomber, Bomb it all, hitler caput"); }

                else { GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(new Player[] { player }, "Red Fighter, fight them all"); }

                break;

            case 2:

                if (aircraft.Type() == AircraftType.Bomber)

                { GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(new Player[] { player }, "Das bomber!"); }

                else { GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(new Player[] { player }, "Das jager!"); }

                break;



        }

    }