[Chase]

The past few weeks I've started to get into writing server mods since I've been bored with my usual projects. I found AlliedModders to be, by far, the best resource for this kind of thing. I've handled most the "quirks" of scripting this system but there's a few questions I still have. And although I haven't read all of the resources available regarding scripting, I still haven't found answers to these questions.

• Is there a good (and clean) way to find the default health for a player, without running through equipment checks for Sandman and the like?
• What exactly is the Action: prefix in function headers, and why would it be necessary for things like hooking events but not hooking convar changes?
• Can we detect teammates hitting one-another without mp_friendlyfire? And if not, would it be alright (in terms of modder practice) to modify this cvar temporarily for a particular plugin?
• The player_healedbymedic event seems to not be firing for me. Is it broken functionality or am I just stupid?

That's all the questions I can think of at the moment. Some ideas on these things would be greatly appreciated.

[pheadxdll]

1.

new iDefaultHealth = GetEntProp(client, Prop_Send, "m_iMaxHealth");

4. The player_healedbymedic event is probably client-side and not fired on the server.

[Chase]

Thanks. And that reminds me of another question, is there a centralized reference for all the various entity properties and who they apply to, or do I have to dig around in header files myself?

Also would there be an alternate way to check for medic healing? Or general increase in HP, without using any sort of constantly looping check.

[pheadxdll]

Yes, the data and net props can be found on this page: http://wiki.alliedmods.net/Category:Game_Resources You can run the command sm_dump_netprops to generate a list for your mod as well.

I can't think of anyway to hook medic healing offhand without the use of an extension, sorry.

[Theme97]

Originally Posted by Chase What exactly is the Action: prefix in function headers, and why would it be necessary for things like hooking events but not hooking convar changes?

If you recall this bit on handles, it's a special type of handle that comes from an enum (see here) that consists of Plugin_Continue, Plugin_Changed, Plugin_Handled, and Plugin_Stop.

For events, you only need Action: when it's a pre-hook, as you can change stuff. For post hooks, you don't need Action: at all as the return value is ignored.

As for ConVar changes, they're just like event post hooks, since there's really nothing you can do about the change but resend a change if you want to overwrite it.

Originally Posted by Chase Can we detect teammates hitting one-another without mp_friendlyfire? And if not, would it be alright (in terms of modder practice) to modify this cvar temporarily for a particular plugin?

Probably not, but it's probably fine to mess if you know it's the only way and it doesn't conflict with anything else. Just remember to keep a disclaimer somewhere and try to make changes to the variable hidden.

[Chase]

Oh wow, I completely overlooked the fact that Action would be a type/enumeration.

Thanks guys, you cleared up quite a bit that's been bugging me, as well as pointing me to some other quite handy resources.

[Theme97]

Hah, just realized my "Probably not" wasn't in reply to what I wanted it to.

It was an answer to the first part of your question.