[comp_noob]

Originally Posted by FaTony SetTransmit info: Also, I have seen glows in realism on Heroboy server. (Bad russian server with shitload of plugins in it).

So it only blocks the entire entity from being seen by players? aww that's not what i wanted... i only wanted to block the glow from being seen =( in realism servers, there's a cvar which u can set to enable survivor glows back if i'm not wrong (sv_glowenable, sv_disable_glow_survivors)... i do not want to disable the glows, i just want to block the glows from being seen by certain players...

[FaTony]

Hide the player and there will be no glow.

[comp_noob]

Originally Posted by FaTony Hide the player and there will be no glow.

i can hide the player when he's not visible, but after that, how can i unhide him when he's visible? i can't even use the visible check when he's being hidden O_O

[FaTony]

Of course you can. It's hidden only in client, not in server. Just return Plugin_Continue to make player visible again to clients.

[comp_noob]

thanks Fatony, i wanna ask, how do you check if a player is directly visible to a person or not? do you use the event entity_visible or something else? sorry, i'm noob to this type of things, i don't know how to script one that checks for visibility of an entity... by the way, is there any way that you can create an entity that is a glow around the player? or like a name above a player? so that i can use the SetTransmit hook to set whether the entity will be shown to a player or not...

[FaTony]

Visibility... I've been thinking on it. The bullet-proof method is to determine 3 visible sides ofa player's bounding box and trace rays to a 1x1 grid on all sides... That will probably lag much. However, by testing, I've found that tracing about 4000 rays OnGameFrame caused only slight lag when you are running both dedicated server and client on the same machine. Start with TR_TraceRay. Dunno about glows, haven't scripted for L4D1/2 much.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that on Heroboy server, they glow only show up when the player is very far. They've somehow set a starting distance of a glow. So you technically can set starting distance of 64000 units... I wonder if it's player specific.

[comp_noob]

Originally Posted by FaTony Visibility... I've been thinking on it. The bullet-proof method is to determine 3 visible sides ofa player's bounding box and trace rays to a 1x1 grid on all sides... That will probably lag much. However, by testing, I've found that tracing about 4000 rays OnGameFrame caused only slight lag when you are running both dedicated server and client on the same machine. Start with TR_TraceRay. Dunno about glows, haven't scripted for L4D1/2 much. EDIT: I forgot to mention that on Heroboy server, they glow only show up when the player is very far. They've somehow set a starting distance of a glow. So you technically can set starting distance of 64000 units... I wonder if it's player specific.

pradon me, but i've always thought that TR_TraceRay always trace in a straight line, it also can be used to trace visible corners in the player's sight? wow, then it must be real hard... i don't know much about the traceray part, so can this code be used to trace?

PHP Code:

stock SetTeleportEndPoint(client)
{
    decl Float:vAngles[3], Float:vOrigin[3], Float:vBuffer[3], Float:vStart[3], Float:Distance, Handle:trace;
    GetClientEyePosition(client,vOrigin);
    GetClientEyeAngles(client, vAngles);
    
    trace = TR_TraceRayFilterEx(vOrigin, vAngles, MASK_SHOT, RayType_Infinite, TraceEntityFilterPlayer);
        
    if(TR_DidHit(trace))
    {        
            TR_GetEndPosition(vStart, trace);
        GetVectorDistance(vOrigin, vStart, false);
        Distance = -35.0;
            GetAngleVectors(vAngles, vBuffer, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);
        g_pos[0] = vStart[0] + (vBuffer[0]*Distance);
        g_pos[1] = vStart[1] + (vBuffer[1]*Distance);
        g_pos[2] = vStart[2] + (vBuffer[2]*Distance);
    }
    
    CloseHandle(trace);
    return true;
}

public bool:TraceEntityFilterPlayer(entity, contentsMask)
{
    return entity > MaxClients || !entity;
} 


[FaTony]

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showpos...0&postcount=13

[comp_noob]

does that work for l4d2 also? is there anything that i need to change? sorry, i don't know about the traceray stuff... so i can't tell if there's anything wrong...

[FaTony]

TraceRay should work with all mods. I suggest trying to write from scratch and using my code as reference.