[edon1337]

Hi, I've been going thru some issues with my latest code, I'm unable to remove the 'DEAD' flag from scoreboard for some reason, and I'm trying to do something: When Player1 infects Player2 it should show up in the kill-feed like this:

Player1 ☠️ Player2 or Player1 ☠️ Player2

Player2 color depending on his team, but instead it's always showing:
Player1 ☠️ Player2

PS: TEAM_MONSTER == 2 (TEAM_CT)

PHP Code:

InfectPlayer( iVictim, iAttacker )
{
    InfectionMsg( iVictim, iAttacker );

    cs_set_user_team( iVictim, TEAM_MONSTER );
    g_iPlayerTeam[ iVictim ] = TEAM_MONSTER;
    
    RemoveDeadFlag( iVictim );
}

RemoveDeadFlag( iPlayer )
{
    message_begin( MSG_ALL, g_iMsgScoreAttrib ) 
    { 
        write_byte( iPlayer ) 
        write_byte( 0 ) 
        message_end( ) 
    }
}

InfectionMsg( iVictim, iAttacker )
{
    message_begin( MSG_BROADCAST, g_iMsgDeath )
    write_byte( iAttacker ) // killer
    write_byte( iVictim ) // victim
    write_byte( 1 ) // headshot flag
    write_string( "infection" ) // killer's weapon
    message_end( )
} 


[edon1337]

Here's the answer on how to solve the issues in case someone needs them since nobody helped me:

1. All I had to do to remove the "DEAD" flag was change MSG_ALL to MSG_BROADCAST for some reason.
2. Creating a 0.1s task after sending Infection Message and then changing the player team inside the task will make it work, the reason:

When you send infection message it is called twice, not sure about the in-between delay of the messages though. So:

• Attacker is CT, victim is T
• You send infection message
• Right message is sent, CT attacker kills T victim
• Victim team is changed to CT
• Message is sent again with changed teams (both CT)
That's why it always showed victim team CT.

[Bugsy]

Thanks for posting your solution. FWIW, I did try but it was not working for me so I didn't bother to reply. I dug up this thread which was of no help.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by Bugsy Thanks for posting your solution. FWIW, I did try but it was not working for me so I didn't bother to reply. I dug up this thread which was of no help.

Thanks for your time.
I'm still not sure what's causing it to get called twice though.

[Bugsy]

What do you mean by twice

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by Bugsy What do you mean by twice

I debugged and DeathMsg was sent twice, first is because of what I sent manually but the second one?

[Bugsy]

InfectionMsg() does not trigger the actual DeathMsg event..if you hook DeathMsg and call InfectionMsg(), DeathMsg is not called. I would need to see more of your code.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by Bugsy InfectionMsg() does not trigger the actual DeathMsg event..if you hook DeathMsg and call InfectionMsg(), DeathMsg is not called. I would need to see more of your code.

My bad, I was thinking InfectionMsg was somehow called twice, but now I see it's not.
So what's the reason I have to set a 0.1 second delay to make it work properly?

When I don't set a 0.1s delay it shows always CT, but when I set a 0.1s delay, it shows the right team.

Works:

PHP Code:

InfectPlayer( iVictim, iAttacker )
{    
    InfectionMsg( iVictim, iAttacker );
    set_task( 0.1, "DelayedTeamChange", iVictim + TASK_TEAM_DELAY );
}

public DelayedTeamChange( iVictim )
{
    iVictim -= TASK_TEAM_DELAY;

    cs_set_user_team( iVictim, TEAM_MONSTER );
    g_iPlayerTeam[ iVictim ] = TEAM_MONSTER;
    
    RemoveDeadFlag( iVictim );
} 


Doesn't work:

PHP Code:

InfectPlayer( iVictim, iAttacker )
{    
    InfectionMsg( iVictim, iAttacker );
    
    cs_set_user_team( iVictim, TEAM_MONSTER );
    g_iPlayerTeam[ iVictim ] = TEAM_MONSTER;
    
    RemoveDeadFlag( iVictim );
} 


[HamletEagle]

Things don't happen instantly, so DeathMsg is likely processed by the game after the team change you made. Setting the task delays the team change after DeathMsg was sent.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle Things don't happen instantly, so DeathMsg is likely processed by the game after the team change you made. Setting the task delays the team change after DeathMsg was sent.

Yeah that must be it.