[Mecha the Slag]

Originally Posted by [AAA] Thrawn this also lights up in some situations in which it shouldnt, e.g. when standing directly in front of a wall -> no flames, but light. awesome plugin nonetheless.

Yeah. There's really no safe way to do it, unless I hook TF2_CalcIsAttackCritical, which I suppose is entirely possible with a timer and such. I'll look into it in the future.

also 1.2 is out, fixed a bug with light in water.

[wasder]

Also it lights when you are scared and press fire.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_fHBJCIxSwOQ/TQ...ve_b2a0037.jpg

[FoxMulder]

Originally Posted by Leonardo also, I've never seen EntRefToEntIndex() in other plugins.

That function looks like it came out January 2010 (this year) and if I knew about it I would be using it.

[Thrawn2]

actually you could just hook the flamethrower entity
and watch this netprop: CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (offset 5156)

the higher the more flames the flamethrower generates aka the strength of the flames.

• 0 --> no flames. (even when a player is attacking a wall)
• 1-10 -> starting/stopping
• 11-13 --> hold mouse1 for a second.

no need to check for INATTACK etc.

just to promote my dev plugin a bit more:

CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 0 to 8
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 8 to 12
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 12 to 11
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 11 to 5
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 5 to 0
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 0 to 4
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 4 to 13
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 13 to 12
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 12 to 11
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 11 to 12
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 12 to 7
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CTFFlameThrower->m_iActiveFlames (5156) changed from 7 to 0

oh, and is it possible to SetTransmit hook dynamic light entities? so players who dont want it can turn it off?
edit: just checked. yes, it is.

also: you could create the light entity with every spawn of a tf_weapon_flamethrower and destroy the light when the flamethrower entity gets destroyed. Then fire the TurnOff / TurnOn inputs when needed, which is much less overhead than creating and destroying the light.

feature requests in short

• use m_iActiveFlames for brightness value and light on/off state
• use a SetTransmit hook on each light_dynamic and give clients a "all lights", "no lights" and a "only my light" option (an optional usage of clientprefs would be superb)
• use the TurnOff, TurnOn inputs for entity reuse + code saving

[Mecha the Slag]

That's beautiful Thrawn, although the entire preference thing is a bit overkill imo. Yes it would be a nice feature, but it overcomplicates it.

I'll definitely hook that prop though, didn't know it existed!

[FoxMulder]

Nice research Thrawn. I hope to see your suggestions implemented.

[Skyrider]

I don't think this works on the DEV builds of sourcemod/metmaod.

MetaMod:Source v1.9.0-devV, SourceMod v1.4.0-dev

Reloaded the plugins multiple times and even restart the map once.. It doesn't seem to work.

And yes, I have the extension and the plugin loaded just fine:

72 "[TF2] Ignite Light" (1.2) by Mecha the Slag

[Drixevel]

Same here, haven't bothered to get it working though since all the other plugins work on this thread. People on fire, fire arrows, and flares emit light but not the flamethrower.

[xomp]

The Burning Bodies Light one posted by naris isn't working for me. On Linux. Every other plugin does work though.

Also, when a medic is healing it seems to glow as well. And also with dispernsers healing folks they are glowing too.

[Polaris117]

Your plugin has a real great success on my server, so it would be really pleasant if you could fix the some issues there are, like the flamethrower that lights on when facing a wall.

Thank you very much!