[Luke Penny]

This plugin will help add some realism and variety to Left 4 Dead, by randomizing the amount of ammunition in the guns around the map, as well as right away when you start in the saferoom.

The default minimum and maximum amount of ammunition the guns can have them are:

Shotguns (Both pump and auto) = 64 min, 158 max
Assault Rifle = 180 min, 450 max
Uzi = 240 min, 680 max
Huntingrifle = 90 min, 230 max

The plugin changes the ammunition stores of all guns on the map every 120 seconds. These are guns that are placed by the director or statically in the map, and the amount of ammo the survivors have in their gun is not changed every 120 seconds, only if they pick up a new gun, it will have the different ammo reserve. This does not change how much ammo you have per clip, just how much ammo is in the gun. This can make games more interesting, as sometimes you may have lots of ammo, and other times you may have to start using nothing but pistols.


Please give feedback and suggestions!

Cvars:

l4d_smgammo_min
l4d_smgammo_max
l4d_rifleammo_max
l4d_rifleammo_min
l4d_huntingrifleammo_min
l4d_huntingrifleammo_max
l4d_shotgunammo_min
l4d_shotgunammo_max

They should be pretty self explanitory, the minimum and maximum amount of ammo that the guns can have.

ChangeLog

1.0 - Initial Release
1.1 - Added cvars (thanks to M249-M4A1)

[M249-M4A1]

What exactly do you mean by "use cvars for the min and max values of GetRandomInt"?

Do you mean create a convar with the min and max defined? (see API)

or did you mean use GetConvarInt for the GetRandomInt function (have a min and max convar for each weapon cat.)

[Luke Penny]

To use a GetConvarInt for the GetRandomInt function. I tried a couple tests but could not get that to work.

[M249-M4A1]

Thats's because you have variables like Shotgun defined as floats, when GetRandomInt and GetConvarInt return integers (notice all the tag mismatch errors when compiling)

i uploaded a version of what i think u were trying to get at. i created a min and max convar (named it differently to avoid conflicts) and removed tag mismatch errors from your original post. i havent tested this, but it should work and do what u were trying to do

[Luke Penny]

The version you posted there had some issues, you got some of your min and max's messed up, hah. Fixed, corrected, and tested, uploaded new version.

[M249-M4A1]

Yeah I hadn't had the time to test it because there were so many convars confusing me haha, glad it helped

[triggerman]

is the maximum amount of ammo i can get from an ammo pile changed?

[Luke Penny]

I do believe so, the plugin changes the maximum amount of ammo a gun can carry periodically, so the maximum ammo you can get from an ammo pile is also changed. I may add something so that ammo piles always fill weapons up to a certain level.

[birno]

Hi,

I want to use this plugin in L4D2, but gives me an error message:

L 04/28/2010 - 18:54:18: [SM] Native "SetConVarInt" reported: Invalid convar handle 0 (error 4)
L 04/28/2010 - 18:54:18: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "VaryingAmmo.smx":
L 04/28/2010 - 18:54:18: [SM]   [0]  Line 95, /home/groups/sourcemod/upload_tmp/phpN8WyKg.sp::GunTimer()

Maybe you can do compatible with that game?

[birno]

Please somebody fix this.
As I see the code I really don't understand why doesn't work.