[psychonic]

I did some messing around with the new "dropped" weapons in TF2, and figured I'd share my findings.

Test plugin attached with gamedata. Creating a dropped weapon works fine with zero quirks. (Everything is initialized properly). And picking any dropped weapon entity works as well. You do still have to manually remove/unequip weapons when "dropping" them (else, you're just creating a copy).

glhf

[Potato Uno]

So this actually makes a direct call to the game's drop weapon function? Holy shit, you are the boss. <3

EDIT: Just gonna throw my fail attempt at making a dropped weapon here https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=265850 as it requires no gamedata (temporary alternative if the gamedata ever breaks).

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno EDIT: Just gonna throw my fail attempt at making a dropped weapon here https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=265850 as it requires no gamedata (temporary alternative if the gamedata ever breaks).

Seeing that is what made me want to toy with this. There's another 30+ variables that get copied over from the original weapon that aren't getting set in that snippet (some of them netprops, and some not), which explains why you said you had some issues with it.

[Powerlord]

Out of curiosity, does CBaseCombatCharacter::Weapon_Detach need to be called somewhere? I'm not sure what it does, but I noticed TF2 uses it internally right before it removes the old weapon when a player swaps their weapon with one on the ground. That is, after the new dropped weapon is created and initialized, but before the one they have equipped is destroyed.

(Side note: It's not called when a player dies and drops a weapon)

[psychonic]

When using the function for picking up weapons in the plugin on the first post, I believe it automatically handles removing the entity for the existing equipped weapon.

One thing that I forgot to note is that iirc, when picking up a dropped weapon with this method, the dropped one stays on the ground. You would have to manually remove that one.

I didn't test anything with removing current weapon when making a dropped copy of it.

[Michalplyoutube]

So how we apply attributes?
Easiest would be TF2 Attrib but is there any other way?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Michalplyoutube So how we apply attributes? Easiest would be TF2 Attrib but is there any other way?

Create a weapon with TF2Items. Use that weapon as the source for the dropped weapon. Then, remove that weapon entity.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Michalplyoutube So how we apply attributes? Easiest would be TF2 Attrib but is there any other way?

If you're using TF2Items, its TF2Items_OnGiveNamedItem is still called when you pick up an item from the ground. I assume CTFPlayer::PickupWeaponFromOther calls OnGiveNamedItem.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by psychonic Create a weapon with TF2Items. Use that weapon as the source for the dropped weapon. Then, remove that weapon entity.

Does that work if you pass its weapon with the world as the client?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Does that work if you pass its weapon with the world as the client?

World as client will very likely not work. There's a better chance that INVALID_ENT_REFERENCE would.