[hlstriker]

Warning: Valve does not want you changing weapons into an economy item (this means changing to any of the cool knives.)

Read this post before venturing further into the tutorial!

Well, now that you're not supposed to use plugins that change your weapons to be something from the economy I'll go ahead and show you how to change your weapons to be something from the economy.. without creating a new entity! Whatever you do don't use this tutorial to change your weapons to be something from the economy. May your !knife server crashes be a thing of the past (which should be a thing of the past anyway since you're not running those plugins anymore, right?)

Note this is not complete code and is merely used to demonstrate how you can gracefully change a weapon based on its item definition index. Obviously it's not limited to knives only. Try turning your AK into a knife!

PHP Code:

new const g_iItemDefinitionIndexes[] =
{
    59,    // T Default
    42,    // CT Default
    512,    // Falchion
    500,    // Bayonet
    508,    // M9 Bayonet
    506,    // Gut
    505,    // Flip
    507,    // Karambit
    509,    // Huntsman
    515    // Butterfly
};

public OnClientPutInServer(iClient)
{
    SDKHook(iClient, SDKHook_WeaponEquipPost, OnWeaponEquip_Post);
}

public OnWeaponEquip_Post(iClient, iWeapon)
{
    static bSkipNextEquip[MAXPLAYERS+1];
    if(bSkipNextEquip[iClient])
        return;
    
    // Call RemovePlayerItem() so we never see the original knife model.
    RemovePlayerItem(iClient, iWeapon);
    
    // Set the definition index between RemovePlayerItem() and EquipPlayerWeapon().
    SetEntProp(iWeapon, Prop_Send, "m_iItemDefinitionIndex", g_iItemDefinitionIndexes[A_FANCY_INDEX]);
    
    // We must call EquipPlayerWeapon() again to fix the animations and because we called RemovePlayerItem().
    // Make sure we skip the next equip hook so we don't infinitely loop!
    bSkipNextEquip[iClient] = true;
    EquipPlayerWeapon(iClient, iWeapon);
    bSkipNextEquip[iClient] = false;
} 


And now you're smart, good job!

[SM9]

You may want to change this to a PreHook, Otherwise Falchion and Butterfly will have bugged animations.

It took me a while to figure out that it was just a simple change to prehook.

Edit: (Its really as simple as this and you will get perfect results everytime without glitches)

PHP Code:

public OnWeaponEquip_Pre(iClient, iWeapon)
{
    RemovePlayerItem(iClient, iWeapon);
    SetEntProp(iWeapon, Prop_Send, "m_iItemDefinitionIndex", g_iItemDefinitionIndexes[A_FANCY_INDEX]);
} 


[_GamerX]

If I use this on my mod my server will get banned?

[sneaK]

Originally Posted by _GamerX If I use this on my mod my server will get banned?

Yes.

[Neuro Toxin]

I built an API for this before GSLT came in...


https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=2307658