[asherkin]

Originally Posted by predcrab Datamaps are so incredibly wrong, it's past being not funny and it's funny again For normal entity the declare datamap macros calculate the offset from CBaseEntity* to the field and store this offset when you request a datamap it takes the thisptr, adds the offset and away we go By adding the same macros into your custom class, the offsets are generated between CEntity* and the prop yet at lookup time it's added to the thisptr, CBaseEntity so your test code looks like it's working, but its just modifying random memory on the valve entity not the var in the CEntity use a debugger to break and check if you want The fix shouldn't be too hard change the datamap creation code to build its own chain of datamap blocks, and not inject them into the valve list then reimplement (ie copy) the datamap search code from CBE::AcceptInput() into CE:AcceptInput()