[Mathias.]

Is it possible to make a part of the smoke grenade invisible.
I want to make a plugin to make smoke not going throw walls.

Thank you,
black-rabbit

[Mathias.]

Any one have an idea about it?

[Lord Canistra]

Well, unless you modify client particle effect, this is pretty much impossible to do.

[Peace-Maker]

Maybe spawning another solid type of entity invisibly in the wall would work? I'm unsure where the smoke goes through. Did you have any special place in mind?

[Mathias.]

I think smoke going throw everything. As I though I think it is impossible but who know! With all the great coder we got in this community maybe someone will get a idea about it.

[Lord Canistra]

The best idea I can come up with is modify clients particle file so that smoke particles will collide with world and check (if possible) LOS to origin, that is, point of nade explosion before getting spawned.

[blodia]

the last time i checked (can't remember if it was before the orangebox update or after) when the smoke grenade detonates it creates an env_particlesmokegrenade entity which is a brush volume that is filled with the smoke particles. i remember trying to change the min/max bounds of the volume which made the smoke particles invisible for some reason. best bet is to try messing around with that entity.
its pointless considering changing any client side files since you can't... a lot of entities use fixed files and since you can't force clients to download files they already have or edit the entities client side.

[Mathias.]

Will it be possible to remove default smokegrenade and create a loop throw the smoked zone and create a small smoke effect for each coordination if their no wall. Also it will evade almost all cheats to force the client to see throw smoke at the same time because it will be a custom effets?

If anyone could post a little idea about it it will be answome.

For flash is it possible to fade to white client screen as the same for flash style and remove the default flash effect to also avoid hacks to bypass flash?

[necavi]

black-rabbit: that actually is possible, I was doing much the same thing at once point, although simply turning off smoke for some clients (never got it to work entirely). All it requires is to hook the creation of the entity env_particalsmokegrenade, kill it and replace it with your own.

[Lord Canistra]

>much the same thing
>simply turning off smoke

Then it's not "much the same thing" at all.