[Mr. Zero]

Health Glows

About:

A much requested plugin by many player and owners from my community server.
Its simple yet useful for servers with increased survivors.

I always said I had no intention of releasing it. Not because I want to keep the code a secret (please its like 300 lines or less and I have posted many, many times on how to do it yourself) but rather because it was "not up to code" if you pardon the pun, with the rules around here.
However it is Christmas only once a year so what the hell. I spend a few mins to clean up the code so everybody could enjoy it

Straight forward plugin, it uses the glow functions from L4D2 in order to show the other survivors what your current health by the color of your glow.

By default its green glow for more than 39 hp, yellow for more than 24 hp, red for 24 or less hp and white glow for survivors that are black and white.

Description:

Gives the Survivors a health glow around them.

Known Problems / Things to Notice:

• To change the colors of the glows or their type, you will have to recompile. I could have put cvars for each and every glow state, type, color, flashing, range and min range but that would mean the plugin would produce around 30 or so cvars to do something as simple as displaying glows.
  
  I felt it was a bit unnecessary so instead they are easy to edit in the source file. Open the healthglow.sp source file and you will find in the top all of the defines required to change the glow color and so on.

• Currently there is a bug with Versus mode. Infected players will sometime show a health glow despite many player team checks. Reason why is not known at this moment, however a quick fix for this would be to recompile the plugin without green health glows.

• L4DStocks is required if you wish to compile a version yourself. You can get it here.

Changelog:

Version 1.0.1 - 07/02-2011
~ Fixed yellow and red glow being displayed to early. Yellow glow is now displayed at 39 HP and red at 24 HP.
~ Fixed invalid client index on update glow event.
~ Reordered the script a bit.
~ Updated glow function calls to the newest L4DStocks version

Version 1.0.0 - 15/12-2011
Initial release

The ZIP file is for the source of the plugin, not required for running the plugin.

[disawar1]

Сool, are you reading my mind?))) I wanted to do something like that. Nice job thanks, like it)

[Zbeer]

Thank you!

[h401019]

i want a plugins can clear see Health Glows in realism...,Thx

[MasterMind420]

There's a cvar to turn on and off the glow in realism, do a google search and look through the cvar lists...

[adrianman]

looks like those stocks need L4D2_RemoveEntGlow and L4D2_IsPlayerSurvivorGlowEnable in order for someone to compile the plugin

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by adrianman looks like those stocks need L4D2_RemoveEntGlow and L4D2_IsPlayerSurvivorGlowEnable in order for someone to compile the plugin

Doh, my bad.

Updated the stocks with the functions needed.

[adrianman]

thanks,very much appreciated

[adrianman]

one bug i found,infected ghosts are shown too,i was able to see a green ghost shape of a bot hunter as he was about to spawn there

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by adrianman one bug i found,infected ghosts are shown too,i was able to see a green ghost shape of a bot hunter as he was about to spawn there

Infected should never be colored, versus mode?

I have had a bug where the glow sticks around after the player leaves, leaving a glow hunter silhouette. Not sure how to fix it as removing glow on OnClientDisconnect throws a error about net prop not existing.