[eyal282]

As the title mentions, how can I know a client's original clan tag unaffected by sourcemod?

[DarkDeviL]

Originally Posted by eyal282 As the title mentions, how can I know a client's original clan tag unaffected by sourcemod?

It won't be completely impossible to do, but I haven't yet seen a "very simple way" (e.g. a simple command) to get this information though:

Query "cl_clanid", if it returns number "4" for the Valve group, you can execute (for example via SteamWorks), a HTTP call to:

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/4

You will be re-routed to the right group URL based on the ID automatically (e.g. "/groups/VALVE").

Then you parse the HTML contents, where you see:

<div class="grouppage_header_name" style="">
				Valve				<span class="grouppage_header_abbrev" style="">[VALVᴱ]</span>
</div>

The contents of the <span> is the current "original" clan tag.

Explanation of "current": Based on my experience, it seems like either the game or the Steam client is caching some group values on start, so if you have changed your group's clan tag at 11:09 CEST, but your client started the game on 11:08 CEST or before, that client may ship the wrong clan tag to the server (but correct cl_clanid), until the next time they start the game and/or the next time they log on to Steam, so there may be situations where it wouldn't be 100% exact, but that would assume a change has been made though.

[eyal282]

Originally Posted by arne1288 It won't be completely impossible to do, but I haven't yet seen a "very simple way" (e.g. a simple command) to get this information though: Query "cl_clanid", if it returns number "4" for the Valve group, you can execute (for example via SteamWorks), a HTTP call to: https://steamcommunity.com/gid/4 You will be re-routed to the right group URL based on the ID automatically (e.g. "/groups/VALVE"). Then you parse the HTML contents, where you see: <div class="grouppage_header_name" style=""> Valve <span class="grouppage_header_abbrev" style="">[VALVᴱ]</span> </div> The contents of the <span> is the current "original" clan tag. Explanation of "current": Based on my experience, it seems like either the game or the Steam client is caching some group values on start, so if you have changed your group's clan tag at 11:09 CEST, but your client started the game on 11:08 CEST or before, that client may ship the wrong clan tag to the server (but correct cl_clanid), until the next time they start the game and/or the next time they log on to Steam, so there may be situations where it wouldn't be 100% exact, but that would assume a change has been made though.

I never understood how to make https calls, can you explain to me how it's done?

[Papero]

You could cache the tag as soon as it get sent to the server like here: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...07&postcount=6

[extremeg]

Another way would be if you want to get the current clantag and save in a variable of the user with:

char clanTag[64];
CS_GetClientClanTag(client, clanTag, 64);

[shavit]

very very very pseudo code

#include <sourcemod>
#include <cstrike>

char gS_OriginalClan[MAXPLAYERS+1][32];
bool gB_SMChange = false;

public void OnPluginStart()
{
	< hook clan tag changes here > (OnClanChanged);
	< alternatively, query cl_clanid in OnClientSettingsChanged and compare to the previous value >
}

public void OnClientPutInServer(int client)
{
	CS_GetClientClanTag(client, gS_OriginalClan[client], 32);
	SetClanTag(client, ":D");
}

public void OnClanChanged(< prototype >)
{
	if(!gB_SMChange)
	{
		int client = < get client index from userid >;
		< copy clan tag to gS_OriginalClan[client] >
		
		< optional: run any action you want to run in-case you want to do something when people manually change their clan tag >
	}

	gB_SMChange = false;
}

void SetClanTag(int client, const char[] tag)
{
	gB_SMChange = true;
	CS_GetClientClanTag(client, tag);
}

fill in the missing parts, then it should change the players' clan tags to ":D" while storing the original one in gS_OriginalClan[client]