[NothingButSciFi]

Hi, I want to give a player a specific unlockable weapon (eg. the sniper the huntsman).
I do that like this:

new Handle:giveNamedItem = INVALID_HANDLE;
new Handle:weaponEquip = INVALID_HANDLE;

public OnPluginStart()
{
    StartPrepSDKCall(SDKCall_Player);
    PrepSDKCall_SetFromConf(OffsCfg, SDKConf_Virtual, "WeaponEquip");
    PrepSDKCall_AddParameter(SDKType_CBaseEntity, SDKPass_Pointer);
    weaponEquip = EndPrepSDKCall();

    StartPrepSDKCall(SDKCall_Player);
    PrepSDKCall_SetFromConf(OffsCfg, SDKConf_Virtual, "GiveNamedItem");
    PrepSDKCall_AddParameter(SDKType_String, SDKPass_Pointer);
    PrepSDKCall_AddParameter(SDKType_PlainOldData, SDKPass_Plain);
    PrepSDKCall_SetReturnInfo(SDKType_CBaseEntity, SDKPass_Plain);
    giveNamedItem = EndPrepSDKCall();
}

public GiveWeapon(client, String:weapon[])
{
    new weapon = SDKCall(giveNamedItem , client, weapon, 0);
    SDKCall(weaponEquip, client, weapon);
}

The OffsCfg contains the correct offsets.
Now, if I call GiveWeapon(client, "tf_weapon_compound_bow"); to give the client the huntsman the client gets the huntsman and it's fully usable but the model is wrong, in first person it shows the engineers pistol... I don't know how it looks like in 3rd person view since I can't taunt with this weapon.

Somebody knows what I have to do to use the correct model and make it tauntable?

[bl4nk]

The last param for GiveNamedItem is suppose to be an instance of CScriptCreatedItem that tells the server the information needed to properly spawn the weapon. Sadly, we don't really have access to that, so unless you reverse engineer the class and use an extension, I don't think there's a way to do it.

[NothingButSciFi]

And that will never be part of the core?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by NothingButSciFi And that will never be part of the core?

The "core"? No. The SM TF2 extension? Possibly, if someone cares to go to the work of figuring it out and implementing it.

[EHG]

There is a very easy way to do it.
Write a script to check for client buttons.
Or to check if client is using the compound bow.
If the client switches to his primary weapon set the weapon alpha to 0 and use the code from the equipment manager to attach the compound bow model to the client.
And of course if the client switches to another weapon, set alpha to 255 and remove compound bow model.

I will need to make a script with this myself actually, so if you are willing to wait I will have it done in a week or so.

[Damizean]

You can set the item definition index to the bow's before equipping it to the client. It will appear correctly as the bow but with wrong animations IIRC.

[EHG]

If my method is used with the sniper the animations should be correct since the equipment manager attaches the joints in the bow to the correct joints on the sniper skeleton.
Thus as the sniper moves so will the bow.

I will test it as soon as I get home.

[Damizean]

The view model won't be shown correctly, though.

[EHG]

What if our two methods are combined?
Mine to fix world model animations and yours to fix client view model