[Anathematized]

I got a little problem with temp ents. I set TE_SetupBeamFollow which I send only to a single player. The colours of beam are different for both teams and there appears a problem. Life time of a beam is 10 secs and when alive player is changing his team the colours blend each other and I get violet instead of red and blue :/

Is it possible to remove or kill a temp ent, which has been already sent to a client?

[Bacardi]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...mporary_entity

Originally Posted by Valve wiki Temporary entities are used by the server to create short-lived or one-off effects on clients. They are different to standard entities in that they are 'fire and forget'; once one has been created, the server has nothing more to do with it. TEs have no edict or entity index, and do not count toward the entity limit. TEs are unreliable and get dropped if too many are created at once. The maximum per update is 32 in multiplayer and 255 in single player.

How to stop TE

[Anathematized]

Thanks a lot, but how to make it visible only to a single player? When I spawn it as en entity all players are able to see the beam.

[berni]

I think you would need a SetTransmit hook or something (from SDKHooks ?) as the entity does not support showing itself to a certain player only.

[Anathematized]

Originally Posted by berni I think you would need a SetTransmit hook or something (from SDKHooks ?)

I read that using Hook_SetTransmit I can hide anything to anyone but still don't know how :/
Could you please explain how should I use it to hide an entity for all players except one chosen?

[Zylius]

Originally Posted by Anathematized I read that using Hook_SetTransmit I can hide anything to anyone but still don't know how :/ Could you please explain how should I use it to hide an entity for all players except one chosen?

public SpawnEntity(bla bla bla)
{
   //after you've spawned your entity
   SDKHook(entities[client], SDKHook_SetTransmit, Hook_SetTransmit);
}
public Action:Hook_SetTransmit(entity, client)
{	
	if(entities[client] && EntRefToEntIndex(entities[client]) == entity )
		return Plugin_Handled;
	return Plugin_Continue;
}

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Zylius public SpawnEntity(bla bla bla) { //after you've spawned your entity SDKHook(entities[client], SDKHook_SetTransmit, Hook_SetTransmit); } public Action:Hook_SetTransmit(entity, client) { if(entities[client] && EntRefToEntIndex(entities[client]) == entity ) return Plugin_Handled; return Plugin_Continue; }

As mentioned earlier, TEs have no edict or entity index, so this code doesn't exactly work.

[blodia]

Originally Posted by Anathematized I read that using Hook_SetTransmit I can hide anything to anyone but still don't know how :/ Could you please explain how should I use it to hide an entity for all players except one chosen?

[Zylius]

Originally Posted by Powerlord As mentioned earlier, TEs have no edict or entity index, so this code doesn't exactly work.

As I understood, OP started using regular entities

[Anathematized]

Yes. I finally create env_spritetrail entity insted of using tempents so SetTransmit should work. I think good idea would be changing topic title but I don't know if I should do this.
Zylius, I'll check your code when I come home. This will hide entities[client] for client? Is my thinking good? Sorry for stupid questions. This is my first time using SetTransmit.