[BAILOPAN]

hardcoded offset. only works on windows and is hugely subject to recompiles of any sort.

[Ryan]

Hmm a line similar to this code was pulled from NemoD for the tempent effects. Are you sure fysh did signatures for everything? Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for...

[BAILOPAN]

Actually, my mistake, it looks a bit different. Looks like it grabs an offset from a virtual function pointer. It might be okay then, since it's only using offsets to find distances.

[Mani]

Didn't fysh just externally link to te in his linux code and add the server_i486.so lib into his makefile ?

My version for both linux (Bailopan deserves some credit for this as I'd got it slightly wrong initially) and windows (Lance VOrgin):-

I've sent this to a few people but it should probably be posted as public too. The class ManiGameType corresponds to the gametypes.txt file that I use for compatibilty across different source games.

The gpManiGameType->GetLinuxBin() function returns "./cstrike/bin/server_i486.so" for CSS. It should be different for each mod that it runs on.

	if (effects && gpManiGameType->GetAdvancedEffectsAllowed())
	{

#ifdef __linux__
		void	*handle;
		void	*var_address;

		handle = dlopen(gpManiGameType->GetLinuxBin(), RTLD_NOW);
	
		if (handle == NULL)
		{
			Msg("Failed to open server image, error [%s]\n", dlerror());
			gpManiGameType->SetAdvancedEffectsAllowed(false);
		}
		else
		{ 
			Msg("Program Start at [%p]\n", handle);

			var_address = dlsym(handle, "te");
			if (var_address == NULL)
			{
				Msg("dlsym failure : Error [%s]\n", dlerror());
				gpManiGameType->SetAdvancedEffectsAllowed(false);
			}
			else
			{
				Msg("var_address = %p\n", var_address);
				temp_ents = *(ITempEntsSystem **) var_address;
			}

			dlclose(handle);
		}
#else
		temp_ents = **(ITempEntsSystem***)(VFN2(effects, gpManiGameType->GetAdvancedEffectsVFuncOffset()) + (gpManiGameType->GetAdvancedEffectsCodeOffset()));
#endif
	}

Mani

[Ryan]

How does this work exactly? are you locating some known/available class or function, then offsetting the memory location to the hidden class that the known class is a part of?

Also Mani, can you show your define of VFN2? I've seen a few different implementations of it and am not sure which one to use if using the code you've provided.