[KissLick]

Ciao guys,

I need to hide some players with SetTransmit and replace them with dummies (acting exactly like the hidden players).
Now I have it done with prop_dynamic_override and it works fine, except of animations...

1. Should I use bots? Can I spawn bot with entity index higher than MaxClients?
2. Should I stay with prop? How can I properly set animations to that prop and how to solve weapons.
3. Is there a better way, how to do that?

I know I asked a lot, but I hope, you will help me out.

[Benoist3012]

Originally Posted by KissLick Ciao guys, I need to hide some players with SetTransmit and replace them with dummies (acting exactly like the hidden players). Now I have it done with prop_dynamic_override and it works fine, except of animations... Should I use bots? Can I spawn bot with entity index higher than MaxClients? Should I stay with prop? How can I properly set animations to that prop and how to solve weapons. Is there a better way, how to do that? I know I asked a lot, but I hope, you will help me out.

1) No you cant tf2 is limited to 33 slot if you try more you will make your server crash and if it's for cs:go no it's also limited to 64 or 65
2)The imput SetAnimation can work
3)Actually no and attach weapons to a prop_dynamic can work but not like you want

[Chdata]

actually you might be able to attach weapons if you attach them to attachment points on the player model on the prop via SetParentAttachment


however it may be that TF2 does it some other way and that won't work.

[KissLick]

And is there any way, how to hook player animations and apply them to that prop_dynamic?

[Miu]

why not just make a normal bot/fake client and hide it from scoreboard?

[KissLick]

Originally Posted by Miu why not just make a normal bot/fake client and hide it from scoreboard?

But can I create bot with entity index higher then MaxClients?

[Miu]

No, why would you need to?

[KissLick]

I need to create dummy entity for every player in game. So if there is more than 32 players I would be be creating bots over the limit.

[psychonic]

What you want are NPCs, but i'm not sure how far you can go with them from just the server side. An extension using CEntity would be the most logical starting point for it.

[kadet.89]

You can actually create a new entity type with the CEntity extension and make it work as a player entity. But you will also have to rewrite a huge part of server functions.
You can use hoostage/npc entity as a base. Then just redefine all the limits and reattach every player from CCSPlayer to this entity. It should work as CSS NPC mod, but every npc will be under control of a certain player.

Have a look at this extension https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=127034

raydan has implemented such kind of thing, but he doesn't want to share it, we can only see how it works on his NPC and lobby servers. Here is the old thread https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=161331