[sslice]

There's always the 'player_spawn' game event, lol.

You could also try hooking IVEngineServer::CreateEdict.

[Drunken F00l]

Hooking CreateEdict doesn't work because the edict is created before the CBE networkable. I used to use this though and then just hook the CBE next frame. If I do that though, I miss all of the KeyValue calls .

[sslice]

Just curious... what do you need the KeyValues for?

[Drunken F00l]

+copyent

[cybermind]

Originally Posted by bailopan Actually, one really hacky possibility is to change the return address on the stack with a pre-detour, then when the function returns, it returns to a second post detour, where you can do your thing and then jump to the original return address.

That would be require your hook installation code running at the same time as the target function (or called from it) since that's all done during run-time as opposed to load-time. So you'd already need another hooking mechanism to do this. Interesting method for executing code in a remote process though...

[Fredd]

Drunken F00l@: have you ever got this working, im very interested in this and i have been looking for something like this rather than then you using a hassle entity listener...

[Drunken F00l]

Yes, I did get this working eventually but then decided I didn't need to use the system anyways.

Basically, I ran through every entity in the entity dictionary. I made one of each (except for a few exceptions like "player") and then made a DVP hook to the function I wanted hooked on every entity.

Another possibility is to hook the dictionary's create function and hook each entity as it's created. I've never tried it, but it might work for you.

[Fredd]

ok a few things, the EntityFactoryDictionary doesnt seem to have the function from what i was, but when i scrolled down i saw a IEntityFactory class with the following functions

virtual IServerNetworkable *Create( const char *pClassName ) = 0; virtual void Destroy( IServerNetworkable *pNetworkable ) = 0;

if this is is the class you are talking about, first how do i hook these functions do i need to use "GET_V_IFACE_*" or something to get the pointer of the class and then use "SH_ADD_HOOK_MEMFUNC" just like when hooking anything in the standard interfaces? and second if this were to work or something would i only be able to hook networkable entities? because i was kinda of planning to hook like everything in the game..

thanks,

[Drunken F00l]

Ya, you could hook Create on every entity factory and then hook each enitity that gets created. I've never done that, but it could work. Hook it like you would as if it were any other interface. Make it a post hook so that you can then hook the return value (the newly created entity).

Also, I'm not sure if it would limit you to networked entities or not. I suppose you could try it and find out.