[Mayor Gamer]

[TF2] Old Weapon Drops
Pre-Gun Mettle!

Description:

• This plugin brings back the old dropped weapon mechanism before Gun Mettle. For people that don't remember, you could get ammo from dropped weapons until Gun Mettle came out. This plugin brings that feature back into the game, replacing the new system.

ConVars:

Spoiler owds_enabled (Default: 1) - Enable the plugin or not. owds_drop_ammo_packs (Default: 0) - Wether to also drop ammo packs along the weapon or not to. owds_adverts (Default: 1) - Wether to advert if the plugin got disabled or enabled or not to advert. (1 = Advert on map start, 2 = Advert when enable/disable) Numbers can be combined. owds_version - Don't touch this. For your own good.

Changelog:

Version 2.1: - Fixed dropped weapons (ammo packs) not giving metal to Engineers. Version 2.0: - Dropped weapons retain skins, botkillers, and other modifiers. - Fixed the issue with building gibs never spawning when the plugin is active. - A .cfg file will be generated into cfg/sourcemod with the exact name as the plugin to configurate ConVars. Version 1.0: - Initial Release.

Special Thanks:

Pelipoika: Teaching me how to get model names from indexes, metal for CTFAmmoPack and much more stuff. You're a great man :)

Shadowysn: Updating the plugin to fix bugs and expand functionality.

[404UserNotFound]

I did a little test and added #pragma newdecls required to see if any errors popped up when I compiled it. I found a bunch of errors in my own syntax-updated copy of MoreColors As a result of that, I downloaded Bara's MultiColors include, made the appropriate "CPrintToChatAll" > "MC_PrintToChatAll" changes in 4 spots in the plugin, and gave it a compile. Plugin compiled cleanly.

Very nice work. Something I definitely plan on using in the near future once I unfuck my VPS (long story involving wine and xvfb somehow deleting my sudo user account causing bad ownership issues to lock me out of the VPS). I miss the old weapon drop system, but I know some people prefer the new system. I could see myself modifying this to make this a feature for all players, where they can choose what their weapon does when they die (if it just gives ammo or if it can be picked up)

I really should start rating plugin threads too...

[Mayor Gamer]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday I did a little test and added #pragma newdecls required to see if any errors popped up when I compiled it. I found a bunch of errors in my own syntax-updated copy of MoreColors As a result of that, I downloaded Bara's MultiColors include, made the appropriate "CPrintToChatAll" > "MC_PrintToChatAll" changes in 4 spots in the plugin, and gave it a compile. Plugin compiled cleanly. Very nice work. Something I definitely plan on using in the near future once I unfuck my VPS (long story involving wine and xvfb somehow deleting my sudo user account causing bad ownership issues to lock me out of the VPS). I miss the old weapon drop system, but I know some people prefer the new system. I could see myself modifying this to make this a feature for all players, where they can choose what their weapon does when they die (if it just gives ammo or if it can be picked up) I really should start rating plugin threads too...

Wow! Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the feedback. ;)

[404UserNotFound]

Originally Posted by Mayor Gamer Wow! Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the feedback. ;)

Not a problem

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday I did a little test and added #pragma newdecls required to see if any errors popped up when I compiled it. I found a bunch of errors in my own syntax-updated copy of MoreColors As a result of that, I downloaded Bara's MultiColors include, made the appropriate "CPrintToChatAll" > "MC_PrintToChatAll" changes in 4 spots in the plugin, and gave it a compile. Plugin compiled cleanly.

You should put
#pragma newdecls required
after the includes, that way it will only look for the newdecls in the actual code, instead of the person's compiling includes.
just a thought

[404UserNotFound]

Originally Posted by Mitchell You should put #pragma newdecls required after the includes, that way it will only look for the newdecls in the actual code, instead of the person's compiling includes. just a thought

Yeah I happened to do that accidentally, but I've been meaning to go through all the custom includes I've downloaded from here over the years and updating them all to the superior new syntax.

Thanks for having faith in my intelligence

[Shadowysn]

Edited version that retains skins, botkillers, etc, via parenting the deactivated original tf_dropped_weapon weapon to the now-invisible tf_ammo_pack weapon.
Fixed the issue with building gibs never spawning when the plugin is active.

Also removed the <morecolors> dependency that's only there to make the advertising fancier, and replaced the colors with the 4 available colors the default PrintToChat functions can do.

The chat function that advertises to the server in a timer couldn't be disabled by cvar in the old version.
You don't even get a .cfg file to change the cvars. :V

So now I've converted owds_adverts to a bitflag cvar to control all the adverts:
owds_adverts [0/3] = Advertise the plugin. 1 = (Advert on map start.) 2 = (Advert when enabling/disabling the plugin) Numbers are combinable.
Advertisements are disabled by default.

A .cfg file will be generated into cfg/sourcemod with the exact name as the plugin.

[Mayor Gamer]

Edited post to reflect the 2.0 update, and also performed 2.1.
Thanks for the fixes Shadowysn!