[abgar]

Hi guys,

Below is an extract of the Grenade Smoke Colour plugin (https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=1613820) Thanks to HSFighter - awesome plugin

What I want to know is how would i need to adapt this so that i DONT need to use a CVAR?
Im assuming that I would remove the CVAR and add a new DispatchKeyValue... but I don't know much about CVARs - so how can I change this please?

Cheers

  
public OnPluginStart()
{
g_hCVColor  = CreateConVar("sm_grenadesmokecolor_color",  "0 255 0", FCVAR_PLUGIN);    
}


                    new iEntity = CreateEntityByName("light_dynamic");
                    if (iEntity != -1)
                    {
                        new iRef = EntIndexToEntRef(iEntity);
                        decl String:sBuffer[64];
                        GetConVarString(g_hCVColor, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "_light", sBuffer);
                        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "smokelight_%d", iEntity);
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity,"targetname", sBuffer);
                        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "%f %f %f", a[0], a[1], a[2]);
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "origin", sBuffer);
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "iEntity", "-90 0 0");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "pitch","-90");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "distance","256");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "spotlight_radius","96");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "brightness","3");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "style","6");
                        DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "spawnflags","1");
                        DispatchSpawn(iEntity);
                        AcceptEntityInput(iEntity, "DisableShadow");
                        
                        AcceptEntityInput(iEntity, "TurnOn");
                        
                        CreateTimer(20.0, Delete, iRef, TIMER_FLAG_NO_MAPCHANGE);

[Miu]

idk why you would want that but i guess change DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "_light", sBuffer); to DispatchKeyValue(iEntity, "_light", "0 255 0");

[abgar]

That worked perfectly thanks Miu

Out of curiosity, is there a good place that I can learn about spawning entities and setting the controls etc?

I really have no idea where to start but would like to learn.

Cheers

[Miu]

valve dev wiki has descriptions of some of the keyvalues, e.g. here's light_dynamic