[cravenge]

About:

Recommended for servers that have survivor character changing plug-ins (e.g. Character Select Menu, Survivor Chat Select and Character Manager)

Apparently, playing as L4D1 survivors along the L4D2 crew looks fine in plain sight. But behind the scenes, something dangerous is happening.

Keep in mind that there are these "member variables" under classes and structs within the game and most of said member variables, which are related to survivor characters, are multidimensional arrays and can only hold up to 4 indexes max per dimension.

So what happens is this: once Bill, Zoey, Francis and/or Louis is/are added into the gameplay, stuff goes haywire and since the member variables I mentioned can only account for 4 survivor characters (mainly 0 to 3 or Nick to Ellis), it's more likely that the next member variable or variables will be overwritten and it's because of the L4D1 survivors' character indexes being higher than 3.

For those who have noticed, a recent update was released for L4D2 which finally stopped Zoey from crashing on Windows. It may seem like there's nothing else to worry about from that point on but that's wrong.

ConVars:

• survivor_character_fixes_version
  → Version of this plug-in

Requirements:

✧ SourceMod 1.11+
✧ My fork of the Source Scramble extension

Thanks:

🎮 EdisonGar, Rise and Cuba - For helping me test

Related Plug-ins:

☞ [L4D/L4D2] Dialogue Criteria Fixes

Changelog:

0.1 (02/12/22)
* First release

[Sev]

L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Exception reported: Invalid entity index passed for return value
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Exception reported: Invalid entity index passed for return value
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set
L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre

[cravenge]

Originally Posted by Sev L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace: L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Exception reported: Invalid entity index passed for return value L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace: L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Exception reported: Invalid entity index passed for return value L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] Call stack trace: L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [0] DHookReturn.Value.set L 02/12/2022 - 140:42: [SM] [1] Line 178, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::dtrPlaye rByIndex_Pre

Update to the latest version of DHooks.

[Toranks]

L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: SourceMod error session started
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: Info (map "c1m2_streets") (file "D:\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\sourcemod\logs\errors_202 20213.log")
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Exception reported: Signature for "ConvertToExternalCharacter" is broken!
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] [0] SetFailState
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] [1] Line 66, D:\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\sourcemod\scripting\survi vor_character_fixes.sp::OnPluginStart
L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Unable to load plugin "survivor_character_fixes.smx": Error detected in plugin startup (see error logs)

[cravenge]

Originally Posted by Toranks L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: SourceMod error session started L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: Info (map "c1m2_streets") (file "D:\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\sourcemod\logs\errors_202 20213.log") L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Exception reported: Signature for "ConvertToExternalCharacter" is broken! L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Blaming: survivor_character_fixes.smx L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Call stack trace: L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] [0] SetFailState L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] [1] Line 66, D:\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\sourcemod\scripting\survi vor_character_fixes.sp::OnPluginStart L 02/13/2022 - 05:22:21: [SM] Unable to load plugin "survivor_character_fixes.smx": Error detected in plugin startup (see error logs)

Was there any recent update that I didn't notice? I'm asking cuz it's fine on my end.

[Toranks]

Originally Posted by cravenge Was there any recent update that I didn't notice? I'm asking cuz it's fine on my end.

Maybe it's incompatible with 1.11, latest stable is 1.10, but I've 60 mods and all of them works ok...

SourceMod Version Information: SourceMod Version: 1.11.0.6826 SourcePawn Engine: 1.11.0.6826, jit-x86 (build 1.11.0.6826) SourcePawn API: v1 = 5, v2 = 16 Compiled on: Nov 30 2021 08:264 Built from: https://github.com/alliedmodders/sou...ommit/329d5872 Build ID: 682629d5872 http://www.sourcemod.net/

[strikeraot]

Originally Posted by Toranks Maybe it's incompatible with 1.11, latest stable is 1.10, but I've 60 mods and all of them works ok...

nah, i'm using 1.11 and it's working fine

[sorallll]

Originally Posted by Toranks Maybe it's incompatible with 1.11, latest stable is 1.10, but I've 60 mods and all of them works ok...

Maybe you have other plugins that detoured the ConvertToExternalCharacter function

[king kong]

L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Exception reported: Signature for "ForEachSurvivor<ClosestSurvivorDistanceScan> " is broken!
L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Blaming: server fixes\survivor_character_fixes.smx
L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] [0] SetFailState
L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] [1] Line 114, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::OnPlugin Start
L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Unable to load plugin "server fixes\survivor_character_fixes.smx": Error detected in plugin startup (see error logs)

[XiLuo]

Originally Posted by king kong L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Exception reported: Signature for "ForEachSurvivor<ClosestSurvivorDistanceScan> " is broken! L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Blaming: server fixes\survivor_character_fixes.smx L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Call stack trace: L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] [0] SetFailState L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] [1] Line 114, C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\crap\Shared Plugins\survivor_character_fixes.sp::OnPlugin Start L 05/19/2023 - 02:47:06: [SM] Unable to load plugin "server fixes\survivor_character_fixes.smx": Error detected in plugin startup (see error logs)

The new signatures for "l4d2 ForEachSurvivor<ClosestSurvivorDistanceScan>" I made was "\x55\x8B\xEC\xA1\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x57\xBF\x2A \x2A\x2A\x2A\x39\x78\x2A\x7C\x2A\x53\x8B\x5D\ x2A\x56\x57\xE8\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x8B\xF0\x83\x 2A\x2A\x85\xF6\x74\x2A\x8B\x46\x2A\x85\xC0\x7 4\x2A\x8B\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2B\x41\x2A\xC1 \x2A\x2A\x85\xC0\x74\x2A\x8B\x16\x8B\x82\x2A\ x2A\x2A\x2A\x8B\xCE\xFF\xD0\x84\xC0\x74\x2A\x 83\xBE\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x74\x2A\x8B\xCE\xE 8\x2A\x2A\x2A\x2A\x83\x2A\x2A\x75\x2A\x8B\x86 ", but not test yet