[teh ORiON]

Originally Posted by Arkshine I've tried the game, I don't know much about it, but I don't see weapon on the ground, except probably at spawn but you pickup right away. That's why I thought you might talk about the items around the maps, is it not the case ? Yes, it's well called, and there is no reason altering time is not working unless you're trying to respawn the wrong thing.

Ah yes, for normal standard maps there won't be weapons on the ground. It is however possible to have weapons on the ground which respawn when you pick them up in custom maps which is what I want to use it for.

[teh ORiON]

I made a little test map, if you have time to test it out.

[Arkshine]

I don't understand what happens. Not sure I've something wrong with my installation.

Without the plugin, the weapon respaws right away.
With the plugin, the weapon doesn't respawn at all.

Function is well called, but as post, it returns always 0.

Also, just by hooking InstallGameRules and doing nothing more, the weapon doesn't respawn. Something is fucked up. If it doesn't happen for you, there is something wrong with my configuration, probably.

Can you ZIP your orpheu directory and attach here ?

[teh ORiON]

Originally Posted by Arkshine I don't understand what happens. Not sure I've something wrong with my installation. Without the plugin, the weapon respaws right away. With the plugin, the weapon doesn't respawn at all. Function is well called, but as post, it returns always 0. Also, just by hooking InstallGameRules and doing nothing more, the weapon doesn't respawn. Something is fucked up. If it doesn't happen for you, there is something wrong with my configuration, probably. Can you ZIP your orpheu directory and attach here ?

Sure thing. And no that doesn't happen for me at all.

[teh ORiON]

So ended up finding a solution with a different approach.

PHP Code:

//=========================================================
// Respawn- this item is already in the world, but it is
// invisible and intangible. Make it visible and tangible.
//=========================================================
CBaseEntity* CBasePlayerItem::Respawn( void )
{
    // make a copy of this weapon that is invisible and inaccessible to players (no touch function). The weapon spawn/respawn code
    // will decide when to make the weapon visible and touchable.
    CBaseEntity *pNewWeapon = CBaseEntity::Create( (char *)STRING( pev->classname ), g_pGameRules->VecWeaponRespawnSpot( this ), pev->angles, pev->owner );

    if ( pNewWeapon )
    {
        pNewWeapon->pev->effects |= EF_NODRAW;// invisible for now
        pNewWeapon->SetTouch( NULL );// no touch
        pNewWeapon->SetThink( AttemptToMaterialize );

        DROP_TO_FLOOR ( ENT(pev) );

        // not a typo! We want to know when the weapon the player just picked up should respawn! This new entity we created is the replacement,
        // but when it should respawn is based on conditions belonging to the weapon that was taken.
        pNewWeapon->pev->nextthink = g_pGameRules->FlWeaponRespawnTime( this );
    }
    else
    {
        ALERT ( at_console, "Respawn failed to create %s!\n", STRING( pev->classname ) );
    }

    return pNewWeapon;
} 


So reading in the SDK I figured I could just grab the weapon entity and change it's nextthink value and then return the entity. So that's what I did.

PHP Code:

#include <amxmodx>
#include <orpheu>
#include <fakemeta>

public plugin_init()
{    
    OrpheuRegisterHook(OrpheuGetFunction("Respawn","CBasePlayerItem"), "OnWeaponRespawn",OrpheuHookPost)     
}

public OrpheuHookReturn:OnWeaponRespawn()
{
    new iWeapon = OrpheuGetReturn()
    set_pev(iWeapon,pev_nextthink,get_gametime() + 1.0)
    
    OrpheuSetReturn(iWeapon)
    return OrpheuOverride
} 


PHP Code:

{
    "name" : "Respawn",
    "class" : "CBasePlayerItem",
    "library" : "mod",
    "return" : 
    {
        "type" : "CBaseEntity *"
    },
    "identifiers" : 
    [
        {
            "os"    : "windows",
            "mod"   : "tfc",
            "value" : 0x872E0
        }
    ]
} 


Works like a charm! But that of course doesn't change the fact that the other method should work as this virtual function clearly uses the value returned from the aforementioned function.

Anyway this can of course also be accomplished with hamsandwich for each individual weapon with Ham_Respawn.

[Arkshine]

After using your files, it was working, something wrong somewhere. Anyway, tried and you're right, it's somehow ignored or overwritten ; tried things without success. It's really weird. Wanted to test if it was the same by using a signature instead, but not the time to do it yet. I remember it works fine for CS and some functions, it should be the same for TFC. The truth is always elsewhere.