Counting players ingame (Left 4 Dead voting plugin inside)

wgooch · **Author**

I'm writing a custom Left 4 Dead vote plugin and it's about 50% working now, but I'm still having trouble getting the game to decide how many votes to allow to be cast.

I can have it count the number of connected clients, but am stumped on how to get it to exclude bots or "fake clients" from being counted

Help would be appreciated

EDIT

Problem has been solved! I have released a beta for the votes in a post below!

CrimsonGT · 04-20-2009 , 18:14 Re: Counting players ingame

Do a for loop like for (new i=1;i<=MaxClients;i++) then inside of the for loop do if(IsFakeClient(i)) to find out if they are a bot or not.

wgooch · 04-20-2009 , 20:34 Re: Counting players ingame

So I would this inside of for?

Code:

if(IsFakeClient(i))
        {
        Bots=Bots+1
        }

Avitar · 04-20-2009 , 21:59 Re: Counting players ingame

Quote:

Originally Posted by wgooch

So I would this inside of for?

Code:

if(IsFakeClient(i))
        {
        Bots=Bots+1
        }

Yes...kinda... something like:

Code:

new clients = 0;
for (new a = 1; a <= MaxClients; a++){
        if( !IsFakeClient(a) ){
                clients++;
        }
}

.. should give you the number of real clients that are connected.

fyi there are lots of rtv / vote plugins around with source code on the site that might help you coding =)

wgooch · 04-23-2009 , 19:13 Re: Counting players ingame

I continue to get this message

Code:

L 04/23/2009 - 16:12:17: [SM] Native "IsFakeClient" reported: Client 5 is not connected
L 04/23/2009 - 16:12:17: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "l4dvotes.smx":
L 04/23/2009 - 16:12:17: [SM]   [0]  Line 17,

I'm wondering if a need a newer compiler?

msleeper · 04-23-2009 , 19:18 Re: Counting players ingame

Try this.

PHP Code:


			
new clients = 0;

for (new i = 1; i <= maxplayers; i++)

{

    if (IsClientConnected(i) && IsClientInGame(i))

    {

        if (!IsFakeClient(i))

            clients++;

    }

}

wgooch · 04-23-2009 , 19:23 Re: Counting players ingame

worked out great! Thanks

SirLamer · 04-23-2009 , 19:51 Re: Counting players ingame

msleeper's solution has redundant nesting.

Code:

new clients = 0; 
for (new i = 1; i <= maxplayers; i++) 
{ 
    if (IsClientConnected(i) && IsClientInGame(i) && !IsFakeClient(i))
    {
        clients++; 
    } 
}

If part of a condition test fails early, the subsequent calculations will not be performed and are not at risk of failing if a preceding condition serves as a test to see if the subsequent tests will cause corruption or crashing.

msleeper · 04-23-2009 , 19:53 Re: Counting players ingame

It wasn't redudant. In some cases you will get an error about IsFakeClient failing because they are not in-game.

EDIT
I saw your edit. I'm not sure what to tell you - I've seen it happen many times on my servers running L4D.

wgooch · 04-23-2009 , 20:59 Re: Counting players ingame

Alright I got a working beta for voting, it's still in testing so expect bugs!
Feel free to examine the sp and give some hints to a new coder

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