[Sunyata]

What a great plugin this is! Well done xerox8521. I'm just amazed no-one had thought about adding this med-kit control mechanism into this game sooner rather than later. But it's here now, and that's all that matters!

I've tested your L4D1 version out on my Windows and Linux server using SM 1.8x, and there have been no issues whatsoever, none that I can see anyway. And I've got a lot of plugins on my server, and your plugin seems to be behaving admirably.

Thanks for making this, I'm so glad someone acted on my request. Your plugin is so very much appreciated by me,

Cheers,
Sunyata

[xerox8521]

Update 1.2.1 L4D Only:
I've redone the code so its now working the same as the L4D2 Version without staggering the player.

Also attached the respective 1.8 Version (L4D Only). Please make sure to use the latest gamedata from the main post.

[Sunyata]

Hi xerox8521,

The new L4D1 plugin is working just fine. So I'm using your new one now, although I didn't mind the old one either. So I would have been happy both ways.

Again, many thanks for your efforts,
Sunyata

[Maur0]

Originally Posted by xerox8521 Update 1.2.1 - Accidently broke the plugin when checking for the use type. This only affected the L4D2 Version. Which is now fixed. Thanks for the report. @Lux I'll look into that function thanks!

Many thanks! And this plugin is very good, now players will not be able to heal at more than 50HP

Spoiler

(or steal kits)

.

Nice job!

[HarryPotter]

I set

PHP Code:

mkp_minhealth 5 


When I have health lower than 40, but higher than 5

The 3 other bots are trying to use kit on you and keep shoving XD
Kind of funny but a little annoying.
They don't focus on zombies when holding kits.


Is there any way to stop bots from thinking to use kit?

[cravenge]

Originally Posted by fbef0102 Is there any way to stop bots from thinking to use kit?

sb_temp_health_consider_factor           : 0.5      : , "sv", "launcher" : Temporary health is multiplied by this when SurvivorBots consider who needs healing

If you pick a survivor up, they have 30 temp health, which is multiplied by that factor. So 30 temporary health x0.5 = 15 percieved health. The bot will heal itself below 30 health, which it is (according to what the code is telling it) This will only work if they have temporary health. If they have only permanent health they will still try to heal soon as they hit 30. This might make them heal human players less, if the players have temp health.

[Sunyata]

My threshold is set to 30 HP on my server, the bots will still try and heal me or themselves between this 40 and 30 temp-HP mark. However, setting "sb_temp_health_consider_factor" to "9.9" in the 'sourcemod.cfg' file will stop the bots from holding a medkit. I can't understand why Value doesn't have a CVAR equivalent for this for permanent health too. Seems most odd.

One way to manually stop the bots from always holding their kit between my 40 to 30 perma-HP mark, is to have the bots take pills for themselves, or for the player to take pills which will also stop the bots from holding their medkit to try heal you. During a combat situation of course, the bots will put their medkit away anyway, just so that they can fight, and if they already have pills, will automatically take them during such combat situations too. This temporary HP pill top-up even stops them from holding the kit while the pills HP top-up lasts.

One way to perhaps address this issue with the perma-HP itself is to add a trick to the plugin code, where adding HP using the game's "pain_pills_health_value" and adjust it to have a temp-HP value of 10, so that should the bot go to grab their medkit at the 40 HP mark, the temp-HP value would get added onto the green/yellow perma-health bar. It's just a 2 cents suggestion unless someone else has any better way to address this perma-HP issue.

[cravenge]

More additional info:

If you want the bots to heal at a lower temp health value, you want to set that value to be a higher value. 1.2 to should make them consider 25 temp health to be 30 permanent. If you set it to 2, they should consider 15 temp to be 30 health. If you set it to 6 they should consider 5 temp to be 30 permanent. Etc.

Originally Posted by Sunyata ... unless someone else has any better way to address this perma-HP issue.

The only way so far is to utilize the L4D2_OnUseHealingItems forward from the Left 4 Downtown 2 extension / Left 4 DHooks Direct plugin.

[Sunyata]

Originally Posted by cravenge More additional info: If you want the bots to heal at a lower temp health value, you want to set that value to be a higher value. 1.2 to should make them consider 25 temp health to be 30 permanent. If you set it to 2, they should consider 15 temp to be 30 health. If you set it to 6 they should consider 5 temp to be 30 permanent. Etc.

Indeed, that would be the rule.

[HarryPotter]

Originally Posted by cravenge If you pick a survivor up, they have 30 temp health, which is multiplied by that factor. So 30 temporary health x0.5 = 15 percieved health. The bot will heal itself below 30 health, which it is (according to what the code is telling it) This will only work if they have temporary health. If they have only permanent health they will still try to heal soon as they hit 30. This might make them heal human players less, if the players have temp health.

Thanks a lot.

More additional info: The only way so far is to utilize the L4D2_OnUseHealingItems forward from the Left 4 Downtown 2 extension / Let 4 DHooks Direct plugin.

Originally Posted by Silvers Forward L4D2_OnUseHealingItems is blocked in Linux L4D1/L4D2 to prevent crashes. Waiting for DHooks update to support object returns.

Waiting