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addEventHandler ( "onPlayerQuit", getRootElement(), playerCount )
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerQuit", getRootElement(), playerCount )
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<section name="Client" class="client" show="true">
This example command show your FPS.
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
local root = getRootElement()
local player = getLocalPlayer()
local counter = 0
local starttick
local currenttick
addCommandHandler ( "myfps",
function()
if not starttick then
starttick = getTickCount()
end
counter = counter + 1
currenttick = getTickCount()
if currenttick - starttick >= 1000 then
setElementData(player,"FPS",counter)
counter = 0
starttick = false
end
end
)
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</section>


==See Also==
==See Also==
{{Player functions}}
{{Player functions}}

Revision as of 00:34, 17 April 2013

This function returns the number of players currently connected to the server.

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]] Note: #getElementsByType("player") works the same as this function but also works client side unlike this function.

Syntax

int getPlayerCount ( )

Returns

Returns the number of players connected to the server as an int.

Example

This example displays a chat message with the number of players connected to the server when a player joins or quits. 

function playerCount ( )
	outputChatBox ( "There are now " .. getPlayerCount() .. " players on this server!" )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), playerCount )
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerQuit", getRootElement(), playerCount )
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Client

This example command show your FPS. 

local root = getRootElement()
local player = getLocalPlayer()
local counter = 0
local starttick
local currenttick
addCommandHandler ( "myfps",
	function()
		if not starttick then
			starttick = getTickCount()
		end
		counter = counter + 1
		currenttick = getTickCount()
		if currenttick - starttick >= 1000 then
			setElementData(player,"FPS",counter)
			counter = 0
			starttick = false
		end
	end
)

See Also


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