I have lots of other stuff on my agenda right now, I don't think I'd ever get around to re-doing this.
Instead I'll just help you if you have any problems.
First off, I had used some signature a while back to deal damage as if it was coming from the thrower, but I forgot what it was. I think it was "ExplosionCreate." It pushed the player back a little too when they got hit. But this could work just as well:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=111684
This is how I de-lethalized knives. I used an adt array to store each knife that was thrown and is lethal. In OnGameFrame I looped through this array (which isn't expensive because how many knives could be thrown at once?) and recorded it's position. I compared the last position to the current one and got a velocity out of it. If the velocity fell below a certain number the knife was no longer lethal.
That's a rough sketch of what I did. To store the information about the knife you'll actually need nested adt arrays. A "master" one to store the handles of adt arrays created for each thrown knife. And of course you must delete the arrays once the knife is no longer lethal.
Goodluck, hope I was clear enough.
EDIT: Actually this might be a better structure for tracking knives.
Code:
enum KnifeInfo
{
Knife_Thrower,
Knife_EntIndex,
Float:Knife_LastPosition
}
new Handle:g_hLiveKnives = INVALID_HANDLE;
public OnPluginStart()
{
g_hLiveKnives = CreateArray();
// don't forget to maintain this, clear it on map start, don't create it twice, etc.
}
OnKnifeThrown(thrower, entindex) // this is just a rough definition, fit the code within it into your code
{
new knifeinfo[KnifeInfo];
knifeinfo[Knife_Thrower] = thrower;
knifeinfo[Knife_EntIndex] = entindex;
knifeinfo[Knife_LastPosition] = clientpos; // put the client's current position
PushArrayArray(g_hLiveKnives, knifeinfo); // push the array into the master list to iterate in OnGameFrame
}
public OnGameFrame()
{
new size = GetArraySize(g_hLiveKnives);
for (new x = 0; x < size; x++)
{
// do yo thang
}
}
And I haven't done anything with it since. One day I'll try to finish it off.
Finish it when you can cuz we can wait a while longer for now.
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