[Riotline]

G'day,
I've been messing around with the Attributes of Items/Weapons (in TF2) and it seems when I PrintToChat an attribute's key valued description (e.g. #Attrib_DamageDone_Negative) it will format into "% damage [blah blah blah]" but if I do anything else to the formatted string it goes to the '#Attrib_DamageDone_Negative'.

I'm wondering if there's a way to reliably obtain the actual description rather than the placeholding name for the description (i.e. grab the "% dmg" from the "#Attrib_...").

[PC Gamer]

You didn't mention if you are trying to view static attributes of items or attributes that you applied. How you view attribute data will largely depend on how you applied them.

You may consider using [TF2/CS:GO] Econ Data written by the talented nosoop. Here's a link: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=315011

The commands you may be interested in are: TF2Econ_GetAttributeName(), TF2Econ_GetAttributeDefinitionString(defindex , "description_string", ...), and TF2Econ_GetAttributeDefinitionString(defindex , "description_format", ...)

I hope this helps.

[Riotline]

Cheers for that; however, I am already using nosoop's Econ Data for grabbing the descriptors from the items_games.txt (? forgot actual file name lmao).
Issue I'm having is that when Printed alone, as a string, it appears as the descriptor as shown in game and in the wiki of attributes; however, when anything else is in the formatted string, it will revert into the items_games.txt (?) identifier for the description instead (e.g. #Attrib_DamageDone_Negative).

Expected Result from "%s" : % damage done
Actual Result from "%s" : % damage done
Expected Result from "10%s" : 10% damage done
Actual Result from "10%s" : 10#Attrib_DamageDone_Negative

[nosoop]

It sounds like you'll want Powerlord's PrintValveTranslation stock for this (or the raw TextMsg usermessage that it wraps). It does have its limitations, though.