[sfPlayer]

I'm trying to use GetEntDataString to fetch string_t m_ModelName defined in baseentity.h.

GetEntDataString will just return some garbage which might be a raw pointer value since it contains non printable characters and is equal for two entities using the same model.

My example code:

stock getBlockType(const entity) {
    if (!IsValidEntity(entity)) {
        return BLOCK_TYPE_INVALID;
    } else {
        new offset = FindDataMapOffs(entity, "m_ModelName");

        SayToAll("offset m_ModelName: %i", offset);

        if (offset != -1) {
            new String:buffer[255];
            GetEntDataString(entity, offset, buffer, 255);

            SayToAll("block model: %s", buffer);

            return BLOCK_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
        } else {
            return BLOCK_TYPE_INVALID;
        }
    }
}

How can i get the real model string?

[BAILOPAN]

Indeed, m_ModelName is a string_t which is a pointer. You will need to file a feature request to read strings of this nature.

Setting strings like this is a much different story -- the strings aren't modifiable generally because they're pooled in game memory. You'd have to allocate/pool a new string.

Thus if you only need to read, the feature will be much easier for us to implement.

[sfPlayer]

done at http://bugs.alliedmods.net/index.php...1258&project=5

thx