[muukis]

I am matching players by their score and want to shuffle teams based on their score (to make teams even).

I don't know if this works yet, but I hope it does I have some doubts, because I'm not sure if players can swap team to Spectators - Can they? They certainly cannot swap to a team that is already full?

Is there a "best practice" for swapping teams or players?

PHP Code:

// Change Survivors team to Spectators (TEMPORARILY)
for (i = 0; i < GetArraySize(SurvivorArray); i++)
    ChangeClientTeam(GetArrayCell(SurvivorArray, i), TEAM_SPECTATORS);

// Change Infected team to Survivors
for (i = 0; i < GetArraySize(InfectedArray); i++)
    ChangeClientTeam(GetArrayCell(InfectedArray, i), TEAM_SURVIVORS);

// Change Spectators (TEMPORARILY) team to Infected
for (i = 0; i < GetArraySize(SurvivorArray); i++)
    ChangeClientTeam(GetArrayCell(SurvivorArray, i), TEAM_INFECTED); 


[muukis]

That did not work... We were ghosting as infected and the survivors were at the saferoom at the round start. We ran team shuffle and I kind of got in to the survivors side, but as Hunter. I was ghosting as a Hunter (like I was before team swap) but my GUI was Survivors. I was propably not visible to others as well. I was teleported to the saferoom when the swap took place.

So just by running the ChangeClientTeam did not work for me. What else do I have to give attention to?

[muukis]

It seems the Infected players don't swap in control of the existing Survivor characters but instead creates new ones. Any ways to put the players in control of the existing survivors? Or can I just execute some command that restarts the map? In the case of restart does the scores get reset? Is there any other (better) methods to restart a map other than console command map <current mapname> <current gamemode>?

[Dragonshadow]

take a look at the current teamswap plugins and see how they do it

[muukis]

I think I solved the problem. I was looking at some plugins code and came to conclusion that it required some SDK calls. I'll have to run some tests.

[Downtown1]

I would just look at the sm_swap* commands from L4D1/L4D2 Score/Team Manager. It's been pretty much the same for 6+ months, it's survived the test of time heh.