[Tauphi]

wtf ... how can I stop steam overwriting my gametypes.txt when i start TF2 ? :-O

[BAILOPAN]

We're going to be releasing a solution to this soon.

[Tauphi]

ok ... i spawned the sentry ... and updated it to level 2 ... heres the result:

delta entity: 58
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_flCycle, DPT_Float, index 1, bits 10, value 0.000
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_nNewSequenceParity, DPT_Int, index 6, bits 3, value 7
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_nResetEventsParity, DPT_Int, index 7, bits 3, value 5
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iAmmoShells, DPT_Int, index 9, bits 9, value 120
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_nModelIndex, DPT_Int, index 264, bits 11, value 364
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iHealth, DPT_Int, index 305, bits 13, value 90
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iMaxHealth, DPT_Int, index 306, bits 13, value 90
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iUpgradeLevel, DPT_Int, index 320, bits 3, value 2
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iState, DPT_Int, index 323, bits 3, value 3
+ DT_ObjectSentrygun m_iUpgradeMetal, DPT_Int, index 324, bits 10, value 0
= 156 bits (20 bytes)

i have added all these changes to my spawn script, but it has no effect ... still the same problems :-/

here my current test-code:

PHP Code:

#include <sourcemod>
#include <dbi>
#include <timers>
#include <events>
#include <clients>
#include <sdktools>

new Float:ori[3];

public Plugin:myinfo = {
    name = "bla",
    author = "bla",
    description = "bla",
    version = "bla",
    url = "bla"
};

public OnPluginStart() {
    RegConsoleCmd("say", Command_Say);
}

public Action:Command_Say(client, args) {
    new String:text[192];
    GetCmdArg(1,text,sizeof(text));

    if ( StrEqual(text,"sentry") ) {
        //time to move away
        GetClientAbsOrigin(client,ori);
        CreateTimer(1.0,CreateSentry,client);
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    return Plugin_Continue;
}

public Action:CreateSentry(Handle:timer,any:client) {
    new Float:vbm[3];
    vbm[0] = 24.0;
    vbm[1] = 24.0;
    vbm[2] = 66.0;

    new Float:mwc[3];
    mwc[0] = 1.0;
    mwc[1] = 0.5;
    mwc[2] = 0.0;

    new Float:angle[3];
    GetClientAbsAngles(client,angle);
    angle[0] = 0.0;
    angle[2] = 0.0;

    new team = GetClientTeam(client);

    new ent = CreateEntityByName("obj_sentrygun");
    DispatchSpawn(ent);
    //
    TeleportEntity(ent, ori , angle , NULL_VECTOR );
    
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_flAnimTime") , 51 , 4 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_nNewSequenceParity") , 4 , 4 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_nResetEventsParity") , 4 , 4 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iAmmoShells") , 150 , 4, true );
    //SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_nModelIndex") , 353 , 4 , true );
    SetEntityModel(ent,"models/buildables/sentry1.mdl");
    SetEntDataEnt( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_nSequence") , 0 , true );
    SetEntDataFloat( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_flPlaybackRate") , 1.0 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iMaxHealth") , 200 , 4, true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iHealth") , 200 , 4, true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_bBuilding") , 0 , 2, true );
    SetEntDataFloat( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_flPercentageConstructed") , 1.0 , true );  
    SetEntDataVector( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_vecOrigin") , ori , true );
    SetEntDataVector( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_angRotation") , angle , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_bPlacing") , 0 , 2, true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_bDisabled") , 0 , 2 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iObjectType") , 3, true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iState") , 1, true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iUpgradeMetal") , 199 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_bHasSapper") , 0 , 2 , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_nSkin") , team==3?1:0 , 1 , true ); //paint red or blue
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_bServerOverridePlacement") , 1 , 1 , true);
    SetEntDataVector( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_vecBuildMaxs") , vbm , true );
    SetEntDataVector( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_flModelWidthScale") , mwc , true );
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iUpgradeLevel") , 1 , 4, true );  
    SetEntData( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_iAmmoRockets") , 0 , 4, true );
    SetEntDataEnt(ent, FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_hBuilder"), client , true);
    SetEntDataFloat( ent , FindSendPropOffs("CObjectSentrygun","m_flCycle") , 0.0 , true );

    SetVariantInt(team) //Prep the value 3 for the call below
    AcceptEntityInput(ent, "TeamNum", -1, -1, 0); //Change TeamNum to 3, 3=Blue Team | 2 = Red Team

    SetVariantInt(team) //Same thing again but we are changing SetTeam
    AcceptEntityInput(ent, "SetTeam", -1, -1, 0); 
} 


ah ... and when i spawn it, i got the following errors:

CBaseAnimating::SequenceDuration( -1 ) out of range
CBaseAnimating::SequenceDuration( -1 ) out of range
CBaseAnimating::SequenceDuration( -1 ) out of range
CBaseAnimating::SequenceDuration( -1 ) out of range
CBaseAnimating::SequenceDuration( -1 ) out of range

[BAILOPAN]

You should DispatchSpawn() after setting those properties.

[Tauphi]

but the most settings have no effect, when i set them before i spawn it ... has no model ... no updatemetal ... no team ...

or do i have to set them in another way ?

[BAILOPAN]

Another option would be snapshotting two sentry guns (one from the game and one from you) and seeing what the difference was. However I don't think there's a way to do this in a script yet... might be an interesting feature request

[Tauphi]

i did that for hours ... building one sentry ... save all numbers bigger than 0 and use them in my spawned one ...

could you make one or two tests with my test-plugin, too? perhaps you have an idea? you are more skilled in those things than me ;D

[Scuzzy]

did anyone ever get the spawning of a TF2 sentry to work?

Scuzzy

[bl4nk]

I tried to do it, and unless it belonged to a player, it wouldn't funciton properly.

[naris]

Originally Posted by Tauphi wtf ... how can I stop steam overwriting my gametypes.txt when i start TF2 ? :-O

Change the ownership of gametypes.txt to a user other than what you use to update steam and run the games as (and DON'T update or run as root).

I use a steam user (and a steam group) to run the game and he owns all the files.

in /opt/steam/ or whereever you put your server files:

as root:
chown -R steam:steam *

chown root:root gametypes.txt
chmod go-w gametypes.txt

use this command to update (or login as steam to do it)

sudo -u steam ./steam -command update -game tf2 -yada yada yada

use this command to run the game (I put it in a script)

sudo -u steam srcds_run -yada yada yada

or even better, run it in a screen so you can see the output

sudo -u steam screen -d srcds_run -yada yada yada