Get Highscore submitting to GameJolt working.

MithosMoon

Hallo, in the third level of my Game "Hoover-Buddy's Pixel Adventure" the player has 60 seconds to catch as much cheese-cake as possible. After Timer ends, a rect is set visible and shows the score in a label. This all works fine.

I added the GameJoltAPI, with my key and Game_ID to the scene and a label for Player Name entering as well as a Button to submit the score and Name placed on the rect.

Now I want the score uploaded to Gamejolt, when someting is written in the label and the button gets pressed, but I need help for it. Does anyone have an Idea how to make this working?

Megalomaniak

I might be wrong on this but looks like the gamejolt api plugin was developed for godot version 1.2 and might need to be updated for it to work with godot 3. I've never used it though so not sure I can be of any real help.

https://github.com/ackens/-godot-gj-api

Latest commit seems to be from January 12th this year and was a fix to update it from godot version 1.2 to godot version 2.

Are you using godot verions 2 or 3? I'm guessing 3.

Couple of tutorial links(looks to be the same tutorial though) for using the gamejolt api plugin(both from march 2017): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=895167590 https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/how-to-implement-scoreboards-in-godot-with-the-gamejolt-api-r4640/

edit: ah here we go, someone submitted an issue on github for it where they linked to a pastebin commenting fixes for godot 3 use: https://github.com/ackens/-godot-gj-api/issues/3

MithosMoon

Thank you for your answer. I am using Godot 3. I will have a look at the links and write later :)

MithosMoon

Well I am using gamejolt_api_v2 and I thought this was the version to work with Godot 3. I backed up the main.gd from v2 and replaced it with the pastebin code. But my main problem is that I do not know to get things connected. Button, API, Label (with the score) and LineEdit.

I found a youtube Video

but this is spanish (I am German) I will see what I can understand :)

EDIT:

Thanks to this Video I have come a huge step further. This is for Godot 3 and GameJoltAPI v2 works with it's original script.

So first I separated the API from the scene and put it into a new scene Next I work on my level script:

First I set the Button disable false after a change in the LineEdit (signal from the LineEdit):

func _on_LineEdit_text_changed(new_text): get_node("Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/submitbutton").set_disabled(false)

Than I load the new scene via my global setScene variable(signal from the Button):

func _on_submitbutton_pressed(): get_node("/root/globals").setScene("res://uploadscore.tscn")

Here I have set up a test string in the script (signal from the api):

func _on_GameJoltAPI_api_session_opened(success): $GameJoltAPI.add_score("12 test", 128, "MithosMoon", "MyToken")

... and get the precoded data uploaded.

But now I have to get the string working, with getting the texts from the labels ingame and make the Guest working, so everyone can upload the score. And this is where my journy ends at the moment xD So I still need help ^__

MithosMoon

I got the guest working, but instead of the Nickname entered, it shows the path to the LineEdit:

the code in the gdscript to get this result is: func _on_GameJoltAPI_api_session_opened(success): guest_name = get_node("Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit") $GameJoltAPI.add_score("12 test", 12, "", "", guest_name, 386278)

Megalomaniak

Need to add .name to get the node name instead of the node path, I believe.

func _on_GameJoltAPI_api_session_opened(success):
    guest_name = get_node("Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit")
    $GameJoltAPI.add_score("12 test", 12, "", "", guest_name.name, 386278)

Though looking at it again, perhaps you want to get the LineEdit value instead. So replace .name with .text I guess.

MithosMoon

thx Megalo but this gives me an error: Invalid get index 'name' (on base: 'null instance').

MithosMoon

Well I guess I have to do something with this line:

guest_name = get_node("/root/World3/Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit")

to make the script grab the text that is written inside the LineEdit

Megalomaniak

That probably means the node to be assigned to guest_name has not been created yet at the time your function runs. Use an if statement to make sure the node exists first.

though in this case it's probably best to do something like:

func _on_GameJoltAPI_api_session_opened(success):
    guest_name = get_node("Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit")
    
    if guest_name != null:
        $GameJoltAPI.add_score("12 test", 12, "", "", $guest_name.text, 386278)

Note that i wrote that by hand here in the forum post editor and haven't tested it in engine, but it should be about right.

edit: yeah I forgot the $ sign in front of guest_name in my last example. It printed the node path as string for you since the get_node gets the node path.

MithosMoon

Now I get which might be a little better than the path, but shows that the Variable guest_name still is null.

Megalomaniak

and did you change the actual EditLine in the in-game UI? Might also want to give it a default value.

MithosMoon

the node is still not found

0:02:00:0623 - Node not found: /root/World3/Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit

Type:Error Description: Node not found: /root/World3/Player/Camera2D/highscoretable/LineEdit Time: 0:02:00:0623 C Error: Condition ' !node ' is true. returned: __null C Source: scene/main/node.cpp:1524 C Function: get_node

MithosMoon

I have an Idea: Now the API is in a new scene, loaded when button is pressed. Maybe I should put the API in the same scene, where the player enters his name, to be able to get the nodes?

Megalomaniak

Maybe, or maybe it(the API scene) should be a singleton that you can call from your scene.

What you should probably do is give a script to your highscore table then connect a signal from the submit button to the script and call the API submit function from within this new function that was created for the signal. Makes sense?

MithosMoon

yeah sure. It works implemented the easy way now, within the same scene. Easy way means I just used the placeholders, but try to insert the IF Query now, to see if the text is found.

MithosMoon

@Megalomaniak said: and did you change the actual EditLine in the in-game UI? Might also want to give it a default value.

yes it has a default value, made it a placeholder:

that it looks like this ingame:

MithosMoon

nigher the label2 text, which holds the score, nor the Gueat name LineEdit gets ever found in the string :/ only the direct test values are uploaded. I just do not understand this. I mean it is all in the same scene now and I can set the variables via $.

It's a mistery to me, should be easier to manage.

Megalomaniak

how about you try not using the placeholder and actually set a default starting value to the field you read from?

Also try both $guest_name.text and guest_name.text in the add_score

Megalomaniak

@Megalomaniak said: Also try both $guest_name.text and guest_name.text in the add_score

yeah, derp on my part. I forgot you need to add the prefix of either get or set :#

so guest_name.get_text not just .text

MithosMoon

I still get "Invalid get index 'get_text' (on base: 'null instance')." ....Well I guess the node gets not found, because I have to insert some dots in the path line ".. But I don't know how many :/

this is the tree:

The script to call the text is the one attached to the Node "Main" which is parent of The API I also renamed the LineEdit to guest_name

Thank you very much for your help so far