[Dr. Greg House]

Hi guys!

I have a "tf_projectile_rocket" and I'd like to make it explode whenever I want to. It does not accept the input "explode". Furthermore I have tried to call "RocketTouch(CBaseEntity *)" where I specified the rocket itself as the collision partner. This seems to work sometimes, on all the other occasions the explosion seems to take place where the last explosion did and not where the rocket currently is.

As always I'm more than thankful for any ideas.

House

[Root_]

This might work for you.

[Dr. Greg House]

Works.

Thank you Root.






PS: ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

[Dr. Greg House]

Okay, I'm going to have to take that back.
Either it never worked or it stopped working now. The rocket seems to just disappear.

[Leonardo]

I tried to make something like this in my Homing Rocket plugin, but no luck :/

You always can destroy it (input "Kill" or something) and create a (fake) HL2 explosion.

[Dr. Greg House]

Yeah the issue is that I'd like to keep this as simple as possible and furthermore later on identify the explosions with the rockets and with the attacker (which would be the "ownerEntity" prop).
I'd like to have/find some kind of unused prop actually intended for or which I could use to "tag" the explosion entities.

[Root_]

AFAIK there are no netprop to explode rocket just in time. You can try this way, but its untested.

#define DELAY 3.0
#include <sdkhooks>
public OnEntityCreated(entity, const String:classname[])
{
    if (strncmp(classname, "tf_projectile_", 14) == 0) // Compare first 14 characters and hook projectiles only
        SDKHook(entity, SDKHook_SpawnPost, OnEntitySpawned); // ... when it's just spawned
}
public OnEntitySpawned(entity)
{
    SetEntProp(entity, Prop_Data, "m_nNextThinkTick", -1); // It will block grenades exploding for demoman. May also help with rocket projectiles
    CreateTimer(DELAY, Timer_ExplodeProjectile, EntIndexToEntRef(entity), TIMER_FLAG_NO_MAPCHANGE);
}
public Action:Timer_ExplodeProjectile(Handle:timer, any:ref)
{
    new entity  = EntRefToEntIndex(ref)
    if (entity != INVALID_ENT_REFERENCE)
    {
        SetEntProp(entity, Prop_Data, "m_nNextThinkTick", 1); // this will trigger demoman grenades to be exploded just now
        SetEntProp(entity, Prop_Data, "m_takedamage", 2);
        SetEntProp(entity, Prop_Data, "m_iHealth", 1);
        SDKHooks_TakeDamage(entity, 0, 0, 1.0);
    }
}

Otherwise you have to teleport breakable entity at the rocket position.

[Dr. Greg House]

May I ask why this should work particularly?
From what I can see, all you do is disable the rocket's "cronjobbed" logic.

So far I am fine with creating explosions by myself. The issue I am having with the "solution" is that I am looking for a prop I can use to "tag" the explosions to the rocket's entity, so I can identify what caused the kill without having to have a global adt-array to store and link the entities together.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House So far I am fine with creating explosions by myself. The issue I am having with the "solution" is that I am looking for a prop I can use to "tag" the explosions to the rocket's entity, so I can identify what caused the kill without having to have a global adt-array to store and link the entities together.

You mean like setting the env_explosion's m_hOwnerEntity datamap? (oh, and dispatching the TeamNum key)

Although that's more for setting the player rather the rocket.

[Dr. Greg House]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House Yeah the issue is that I'd like to keep this as simple as possible and furthermore later on identify the explosions with the rockets and with the attacker (which would be the "ownerEntity" prop). I'd like to have/find some kind of unused prop actually intended for or which I could use to "tag" the explosion entities.

AHEM.

:p

And yes.