[wgooch]

I'm trying to write a plugin for sourcemod that allows you to equip a weapon to a player and remove weapons from players using RemovePlayerItem and EquipPlayerWeapon, I need to know how to create the weapon entity then get it's index so that it may be equiped to the player, and I need some sort of way to get the index of the weapon that I want to remove from the player. I'm guessing I can do something like that by using GetPlayerWeaponSlot, but I don't know what slot each weapon shows up in.

[wgooch]

I've got this code up for equipping a player with a weapon

public Action:EquipPlayer(client, args)
{
    if (args < 2)
    {
        ReplyToCommand(client, "[SM] Usage: sm_equip <#userid|name> <Item>");
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    decl String:target_name[MAX_TARGET_LENGTH];
    decl target_list[MAXPLAYERS], target_count, bool:tn_is_ml;
    
    decl String:arg[65], String:itemclass[82];
    GetCmdArg(1, arg, sizeof(arg) );
    GetCmdArg(2, itemclass, sizeof(itemclass) );
    
    new item = CreateEntityByName(itemclass[82], -1);
    DispatchSpawn(item)
    if ((target_count = ProcessTargetString(
            arg,
            client,
            target_list,
            MAXPLAYERS,
            0,
            target_name,
            sizeof(target_name),
            tn_is_ml)) <= 0)
    {
        ReplyToTargetError(client, target_count);
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    
    for (new i = 0; i < target_count; i++)
    {
        PerformEquip(client, target_list[i], target_name, item);
    }
    
    return Plugin_Handled;
}
stock PerformEquip(client, target, const String:target_name[], item)
{
        EquipPlayerWeapon(target, item);
        ShowActivity2(client, TAG, "Equiped %s with weapon", target_name);
}

But when I run it I get this error

[SM] Native "DispatchSpawn" reported: NULL not allowed
[SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "itemgive.smx":
[SM]   [0]  Line 74, C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\_addons\sourcemod\scripting\itemgive.sp::EquipPlayer()

Line 74 reads DispatchSpawn(item)

[Kigen]

new item = CreateEntityByName(itemclass[82], -1);
DispatchSpawn(item)

is bad, use:

native GivePlayerItem(client, const String:item[], iSubType=0);

i.e., new ent = GivePlayerItem(target, item);

ent has your entity index stored for you. The player already has the weapon and everything so you won't need to worry about associating it with a player or using DispatchSpawn().

[wgooch]

Very helpful, thanks!

I'm still stumped on how to get the ent index of a weapon a player is holding

[CrimsonGT]

GetEntPropEnt() for the m_hActiveWeapon property I believe it is.