[saucex4]

Howdy,

I've been writing a plugin for L4D2, and I'm trying to come up with a solution for a plugin that is loaded late (ie after a round has started let's say in survival). However, it seems that GameRules_GetRoundState() doesn't work for L4D2.

The server console gives me a "m_iRoundState" not found on the gamerules proxy error.

Am I doing something wrong here, or is there an alternative method for obtaining the state of a round?

public APLRes:AskPluginLoad2(Handle:myself, bool:late, String:error[], err_max) {
    loadLate = late;
    return APLRes_Success;
}

public OnPluginStart() {

// check if plugin was loaded late
    if (loadLate) {
        // do some stuff
        ...

        if (GameRules_GetRoundState() == RoundState_RoundRunning) { 
               // do some other stuff 
              ..
        }
    }
    
}

[ProdigySim]

You're correct that m_iRoundState is not a public field in L4D2's gamerules.

This list from the wiki has the correct list of available properties.

I haven't seen anything similar to a "roundstate" in gamerules in my diassembly... So your best bet would probably have to be checking something like m_iRoundTime or similar. I can't really give you any pointers other than to poke around and see if you can find some props that are -1 between rounds or something.

Other than that, I've found some moderately-round-state-ish variables in CDirector and its fellow classes... though I haven't looked into survival specifically. In order to actually use those, you'd need l4d2_direct. If you get to that point you may want to consider first how important detecting late loads really is to you.

[saucex4]

Great links PSim!

Dude you're answering all my questions on the steam forums as well ^_^;

Thanks for all the help!