[Dr. Jekyll]

Question about keeping track of attributes:

I'm making an attribute to limit the level that an engineer can upgrade their buildings to. Can I just use the player index instead of the weapon's entity index to index the array? Will Custom Weapons still remove the attribute if the player switches weapons?

[Chdata]

Or you guys can realize that I'm going to be pushing what I did here eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URFAYgA4dY

	"sound"
	{
		"player"
		{
			"onspinup"		"vehicles/v8/v8_firstgear_rev_loop1.wav"
			"onspindown"	"vehicles/v8/v8_stop1.wav"
		}
	}


enum
{
    SFXMethod_Ignore = 0,   // "ignore"             Don't actually use this sound, it's in the config for no damn reason
    SFXMethod_Replace,      // "find" "replace"     Overwrite the sound, if possible. Generally this might entail simply playing the sound on the same channel which gets rid of the old sound
    SFXMethod_PlayOver,     // "find" "playover"    Plays during emitsound, on top of that sound
    SFXMethod_Indexer,

    SFXMethod_OnFire,       // "onfire"             Play the sound at the time of TF2_CalcIsAttackCrit
    SFXMethod_OnSpinUp,     // "onspinup"           These 4 related to Heavy's minigun. Since only one sound can play per each of these, these are actually unused in the enum
    SFXMethod_OnSpinDown,   // "onspindown"
    SFXMethod_OnHeavyFire,  // "onheavyfire"
    SFXMethod_OnRev         // "onrev"
    
}

[Chdata]

Originally Posted by Dr. Jekyll Question about keeping track of attributes: I'm making an attribute to limit the level that an engineer can upgrade their buildings to. Can I just use the player index instead of the weapon's entity index to index the array? Will Custom Weapons still remove the attribute if the player switches weapons?

Make your plugin remove the attribute. customweaponstf doesn't do it for you at all. You can manage it however you want. I always do it by client and weaponslot (34 * 3 = 102), rather than by 2049 entities.

However I still have to push a forward that is called before attributes are added to a weapon, custom or not, to properly allow you to initialize the weapon's variables if you index by weapon slots. So far it's working perfectly but I'm seeing bizarre glitches from time to time.

You could even use an adt_array to allow using the same attribute 5 times on the same weapon to add 5 different TFConds on kill with a weapon, or something.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Originally Posted by Chdata Make your plugin remove the attribute. customweaponstf doesn't do it for you at all. You can manage it however you want. I always do it by client and weaponslot (34 * 3 = 102), rather than by 2049 entities. However I still have to push a forward that is called before attributes are added to a weapon, custom or not, to properly allow you to initialize the weapon's variables if you index by weapon slots. So far it's working perfectly but I'm seeing bizarre glitches from time to time. You could even use an adt_array to allow using the same attribute 5 times on the same weapon to add 5 different TFConds on kill with a weapon, or something.

Aren't there a total of 7 weapon slots though? Shouldn't it be 7 * 34?

And how do you deal with players leaving the server and other ones joining?

[xXDeathreusXx]

Originally Posted by Dr. Jekyll Aren't there a total of 7 weapon slots though? Shouldn't it be 7 * 34? And how do you deal with players leaving the server and other ones joining?

OnClientPutInServer(iClient), OnClientConnect(iClient), OnClientDisconnect(iClient),

There's a Post version of Disconnect, PutInServer is called when the client is actually in the "active" state, which is to say he can see the game world and the players, Connect is called on the immediate connect when the console says "So-so connected"

I might have PutInServer and Connect backwards, but that's how it goes either way

As for weapon slots, slot 4 and slot 5 are for engies pda and destroy tool, and those can't be modified last I recall, at least not without alot of hassle, and slot 4 is spies disguise kit, slot 6 isn't technically a slot, but it's used to select the grappling hook while the hook is an action item, where the hell did you get 7?

I believe Chdata is going with the general assumption you will never make weapons for those, or the attributes he made cannot be put on them

[alexde5]

I was testing custom weapons with TF2items, and my friends and I found something.

If you die and pick up the weapon as that class, other people can see it!

and the best part of it, the attributes still remain! just excellent!... I guess.

[Theray070696]

Originally Posted by alexde5 I was testing custom weapons with TF2items, and my friends and I found something. If you die and pick up the weapon as that class, other people can see it! and the best part of it, the attributes still remain! just excellent!... I guess.

Has been known since gun mettle. Custom models won't work though and last I checked, custom attributes are lost on pickup.

[404UserNotFound]

Originally Posted by Theray070696 last I checked, custom attributes are lost on pickup.

Kind of. Particle effects still remain. I've dropped a custom Valve RL before and the particle effect persisted. I think the attributes also persisted after the drop as well though I may be mistaken.

[Mr.Orion]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday Kind of. Particle effects still remain. I've dropped a custom Valve RL before and the particle effect persisted. I think the attributes also persisted after the drop as well though I may be mistaken.

From what I saw, Valve's attributes stay, but not custom ones.

[Theray070696]

Originally Posted by Mr.Orion From what I saw, Valve's attributes stay, but not custom ones.

That's what I was saying