[jacek2144]

hello is there any possiblity to detect how many specific entities example info_target is on map and be checked each frame so if we got 10 info_target it prints 10 if 5 got destroyed it prints 5 and 6 created it prints 11

Thanks

[MasterOfTheXP]

Certainly.

PHP Code:

#include <sourcemod>
#include <sdktools>

public OnGameFrame()
{
    new count, String:cls[14];
    for (new Ent = MaxClients + 1; Ent <= 4096; Ent++)
    {
        if (!IsValidEntity(Ent)) continue;
        GetEntityClassname(Ent, cls, sizeof(cls));
        if (!StrEqual(cls, "info_target", false)) continue;
        count++;
    }
    // Print("%i", count);
} 


I've done horrible, horrible things with strings OnGameFrame before, so that shouldn't cause any real performance loss. Probably.

[Sreaper]

Additionally you can type report_entities in console to get the information you seek.

[asherkin]

Christ, that's terrible. Use FindEntityByClassname.

[Impact123]

According to my profiling using FindEntityByClassName is 16x faster than MasterOfTheXP's version.
Still i doubt it's clever to do this every frame, maybe you can grab the count once and use OnEntity - (Created|Destroyed) from SdkHooks to update it.

Yours sincerely
Impact

[MasterOfTheXP]

Originally Posted by asherkin Christ, that's terrible.

I know, right??? I tried report_entities myself and it completely disappointed me.
Just kidding, I know my methods are awful compared to things that more intelligent people use

Originally Posted by Impact123 Still i doubt it's clever to do this every frame, maybe you can grab the count once and use OnEntity - (Created|Destroyed) from SdkHooks to update it.

Yeah, it's almost always better to hook stuff rather than framing it, no matter how good/fast it is.

[shavit]

I would use decl instead of new in OnGameFrame.

[minimoney1]

Originally Posted by shavit I would use decl instead of new in OnGameFrame.

It wouldn't really make that much of a difference in this case. It's a very small string.

[ReFlexPoison]

Originally Posted by shavit I would use decl instead of new in OnGameFrame.

Also the string wouldn't be populated if the entity isn't valid.

Gotta love decl

[Impact123]

Decl is fine if you know how to work with it.

PHP Code:

decl String:str[999];

// Safe now
str[0] = '\0'; 


Yours sincerley
Impact