[L4D2] How can I make entity to be visible through the walls?

Dragokas · **Author**

I need to separate survivor players by teams (in Realism mode),
so I'd like 1st player can only see 2nd (and vice versa) through the wall, 3 can only see 4 e.t.c.

How can I attach something to the player, and activate glowing on that entity, that is visible through the wall only for a specific player?

Marttt · *Last edited by Marttt; 10-20-2020 at 09:27.*

Use SetTransmit I think it should work, like the Witch Glowing plugin

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=2656161

If I'm correct, you need to "duplicate" the entity
And SetTransmit is this new entity, also setting the glow

The only behavior that I have experienced is that sometimes making this (SetTransmit to hide entities with glowing attributes) it appears on the position 0,0,0 of the map, invisible but with glowing

Also there is another option that is to use SendProxy Manager, here is the link https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=169795
The links were removed from the main post but you can find on github something related
I never get success in using it but they say that "should" be possible.

Dragokas · *Last edited by Dragokas; 10-20-2020 at 11:34.*

You don't understand. It is for L4D2. There are no "prop_glowing_object" entity (like in your link). Even if it was, it doesn't react on SetTransmit.
Also, I can't use such entities, because of "Realism" game mode. Such entities are invisible there by default.
They can't be seen through the wall in Realism.

As about SendProxy, I was unsuccessful in an attempt to compile it for L4D. Maybe, somebody other can.

Marttt · *Last edited by Marttt; 10-20-2020 at 13:30.*

I wasn't suggesting you to use the prop_glowing_object, but to clone the entity, set GlowOverride on it and SetTransmit in the new entity only for the clients that must see
I don't know if in realism glow override works...anyway seems that I can't help, sorry.

Dragokas

Ahh, you didn't mention about "GlowOverride" before. I will try it. Thanks.

However, still searching for similar solution for L4D1 as well (using entities other than "prop_glowing_object" since they are also losing "visible through the wall" ability in realism).