creating your own entity

mooman2 · **Author**

Anyone know how I would go about installing a new entityfactory in the entityfactorydictionary? I've gone as far as linking/hooking the ientityfactory interface, but I can't get it to do what I want.

c0ldfyr3 · 05-26-2007 , 10:03 Re: creating your own entity

CreateEntityByName

mooman2 · 05-26-2007 , 14:38 Re: creating your own entity

I know how to do that but when I try something like CreateEntityByName("customentity") it gives

Code:

Attempting to create unknown entity customentity!

I've looked in the SDK and you have to create your own EntityFactory and install it into the dictionary.

c0ldfyr3 · 05-26-2007 , 17:12 Re: creating your own entity

Oops didn't read your question fully the first time, my mistake.

BAILOPAN · 05-26-2007 , 22:56 Re: creating your own entity

Remember that you can't truly have your own entity unless it piggy backs off another. You can't modify the send tables server-side and have the client-side tables mismatch.

mooman2 · 05-26-2007 , 23:43 Re: creating your own entity

I'm only trying to create an NPC based off CAI_BaseNPC. I'm sure it's all serverside, there's no sendtables but just datadescriptions.

L. Duke · 05-27-2007 , 00:07 Re: creating your own entity

I was on a Japanese server that had head crabs working.

I tried getting it to work by spawning a "monster_generic" but I never could get the AI to work right.

mooman2 · 05-27-2007 , 00:22 Re: creating your own entity

Is this Japanese server still online? I might be able to learn something from it.

L. Duke · 05-27-2007 , 10:00 Re: creating your own entity

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=42912

Functor · 05-28-2007 , 11:27 Re: creating your own entity

Hi, I am the author of so-called "Japanese server".

I use CAI_BaseNPC for the headcrabs and Gregory the Crazy.
The key is not CreateEntityByName, but New reimplemented by malloc + the initializer function: CAI_BaseNPC::CAI_BaseNPC. It is not quite difficult.
More complex thing is to reimplement its behavior; CAI_BaseNPC is the dumbest NPC, therefore all their base are belong to you(TM).