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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Gainesville, FL
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12-19-2008
, 22:06
INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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I just thought I would throw this thread up as I have been doing a lot of Left 4 Dead plugins over the last few days for various people, and some of them I have had to either completely turn down, or do their request in an alternate, not so appealing manner.
Whats different?
Round Restarts:
There is no server cvar to restart the game round like in past valve games. There is a cvar called "restart" that is supposed to restart the round, but it does not work. Me and Tsunami found the voffset for a round restart function, and made an SDKCall to it and it works, but seems a bit buggy. (Only 1 health pack spawned, screen went black for 15 seconds, etc). I will post this function up shortly as its the only working method of restarting the round at the moment.
Download Tables:
A fairly easy job was requested, and they had to be turned down due to this very major change. Me and Tsunami both attempted multiple methods, and it appears that there are no download tables for L4D, thus you cannot give any custom content to players. I am assuming this is because they took out the server connect box that every other game of theirs has had, so the client would not know what they are downloading. I am also assuming this is because they wanted to prevent heavily modified custom servers, but I do not really know.
Theres a few more missing features, but I am still testing them at the moment to see if there are any work arounds. I will keep this thread updated with more stuff that I find. I welcome additions as well.
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Last edited by CrimsonGT; 12-20-2008 at 03:27.
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