Scripting Trouble - Error Undefined Variable

**GeneralCarver** · 12-10-2009 07:34 PM

I am making my own simple revive script. Long story short, in multiplayer, when AI is disabled, I am getting the Undefined Variable error when my scripts reference the named units which are not being played in the current mission and are not present. If someone is playing the unit, it would work fine. The script below is one of a series of IF statements in the script which find which unit a player is

if (player == player1) then <------ this is the error, if player1 unit is not used, it will say undefined variable.
{
gc_revive_player1needrevive = "true";
gc_revive_player1active = "false";
gc_revive_player1oldbody = _oldbody;
gc_revive_inholding = "true";
publicvariable "gc_revive_player1needrevive";
publicvariable "gc_revive_player1oldbody";
publicvariable "gc_revive_player1active";
"player1marker" setmarkerpos getpos _oldbody;
"player1marker" setmarkertext ("" + str name player + " (needs revive)");
"player1marker" setmarkertype "Dot";
};

So, this code works when someone is playing the unit player1. However, if that unit is not used in a multiplayer game, it will return an error "undefined variable". As would be expected, since player1 doesn't exist at the time.

Can anyone think of a way around this?