[Silent_Water]

Port of
Simple Team Balancer 0.0.0 for DOD:S
(Original version 1.4.0 by Antithasys)

Hello,

I've found this great plugin for TF2 for controlling Team Balance.

So I've ported it to DOD:S because I never could make it better by myself. It is coded very clean and transparent and works stable on our servers.

That's all - if you want it, change it yourself. Its so easy that everyone can do it.

[DJ Tsunami]

Well you could've at least asked the original author

[Antithasys]

Not really sure how to respond to this. You clearly didn't ask and just copied 99.9% of the code; although you do give me credit throughtout. If you would have asked, I mite have even helped.

From looking the only thing you changed was the events hooked. Not really sure if that is good enough to make it work in DOD without other modifications since I don't really know the game.

I do know that it won't get approved for the simple reason that you didn't change the public cvar and you can't use one already in use.

[madmonkey]

Nice one,
but can you make a cvar for the time :
A player will not be switched more than once in 5 (default) minutes.

or can i self change the time in the .sp ?

[ThatGuy]

Originally Posted by Silent_Water P The following console variables do NOT work in DOD:S stb_uberlevel - Min level medic must have to have priority over other players. Setting to 0 will rarely switch a living medic stb_mp_autoteambalance stb_mp_teams_unbalance_limit

Why not remove them if they don't work?

[DontWannaName]

You dont need to know how to code to edit an existing plugin, you just need the events changed for DOD. He didnt know how to take them out.

[Silent_Water]

Originally Posted by Antithasys Not really sure how to respond to this. You clearly didn't ask and just copied 99.9% of the code; although you do give me credit throughtout. If you would have asked, I mite have even helped. From looking the only thing you changed was the events hooked. Not really sure if that is good enough to make it work in DOD without other modifications since I don't really know the game. I do know that it won't get approved for the simple reason that you didn't change the public cvar and you can't use one already in use.

Sorry Antithasys, yes you are right. I better had to contact you BEFORE I published this. And you are right, I have just modified your code a bit to work with DOD:S. I noted this above.

What should I do? Your plugin thread is clearly marked as to be ONLY for TF2. And you noted that your project is finished. When I post there, no one who is interested in DOD:S plugins will notice this. So I've started a new thread.

Please could you add a simple game type check to your plugin to make it work with DOD:S as well? My thread can be removed then...

I could contribute what is needed with DOD:S to make it work. Hint:

#define TF2 0
#define DODS 1
new gameType = TF2;
/*... */
decl String:gameName[80];
GetGameFolderName(gameName, sizeof(gameName));
if(StrEqual(gameName, "tf2"))
    gameType = TF2;
else if(StrEqual(gameName, "dod"))
   gameType = DODS;
/* ... */
if (gameType == TF2) {
/*... */
} else if(gameType == DODS) {
   HookEvent("player_death", HookPlayerDeath, EventHookMode_Post);
   HookEvent("player_team", HookPlayerChangeTeam, EventHookMode_Pre);
   HookEvent("dod_round_start", HookRoundStart, EventHookMode_PostNoCopy);
   HookEvent("dod_round_win", HookRoundEnd, EventHookMode_Post);
   HookEvent("dod_point_captured", HookControlPointCapture, EventHookMode_PostNoCopy);
}

Thank you!

[Silent_Water]

Originally Posted by DontWannaName You dont need to know how to code to edit an existing plugin, you just need the events changed for DOD. He didnt know how to take them out.

I did know and I took out some handlers. The two convars mp_autoteambalance and mp_teams_unbalance_limit are specified for the new source engine, but actually do not work with DOD:S - Look here

I left them just for compatibility reasons and because I would not change to much of the original code. But you are right - I have could take them out.

There will be no further releases of my modification. I'm glad it works on our servers and I just would have some people to participate. Therefore I published this.

I DID NOT PUBLISH IT AS MY PLUGIN - IT'S JUST A MODIFICATION TO WORK WITH DOD:S.

over and out.