GetUnitXP returning odd value

[justinbarrett]

is this

GetUnitXP("player")

returning the wrong value for veterans? I thought veterans went to normal xp and we dropped

GetUnitVeteranPoints("player")

it does check beforehand if the *player exists, so it is not an empty pointer...not sure how you reffer to this exactly in LUA, but I'm sure I am understood here
Anyway am I just wrong, a current known issue, or possibly initialized incorrectly by me?
I fill a local variable upon initialization just to get a value in there...any help is appreciated.

[merlight]

Just guessing here... Since veteran points functions still exist, I'd say they made that change more on the presentation level, while API remained nearly the same.

-- from playerprogressbar.lua
function ZO_PlayerProgressBarCurrentFragment:RefreshBaseType()
    if(self:IsShowing()) then
        if(GetUnitVeteranRank("player") > 0) then
            PLAYER_PROGRESS_BAR:SetBaseType(PPB_VP)
        else
            PLAYER_PROGRESS_BAR:SetBaseType(PPB_XP)
        end
    else
        PLAYER_PROGRESS_BAR:ClearBaseType()
    end
end

PPB_VP uses GetUnitVeteranPoints("player"), GetUnitVeteranRank("player"), GetNumVeteranPointsInRank(rank) where
PPB_XP uses GetUnitXP("player"), GetUnitLevel("player"), GetNumExperiencePointsInLevel(rank)

edit: a bit strange that they use GetUnitVeteranRank("player") > 0 to check you're veteran, in other places they still use IsUnitVeteran("player") so that function wasn't removed, either.

[mra4nii]

So far is just a cosmetic change. They changed just the name of those points for now.
All API functions related to veteran points/ranks are still there and in use.

[justinbarrett]

ok, I can check on int. to get those two different variables returned, but I would rather just do it once....
does anyone have a clue about what the future of this will be in the api? do we need to maintain this or is it a good time to ignore the vet stuff and just focus on the normal xp? I know this is a shot in the dark question.

[vali]

I checked XP and VP yesterday with a veteran char and those functions return different values (more XP than VP), but right now XP gains seems to be equal to VP gains, at least when you complete a quest or kill some mobs. The amount of VP you get through quests or completing POIs is a lot lower than before.

[justinbarrett]

well using this..

xpMax = GetUnitVeteranPointsMax("player")

It is returning 4 millon into the variable???
any idea where this number is coming from?...or how I can get the correct value?
it IS giving correct results for the current amount....so it seems the function is working fine.