[Dr. Greg House]

Yesterday someone has contacted me through the steamforums and asked me how to do this. We both found out that this is surprisingly not as easy as simply reading out a variable, but I have come up with a solution which I would like to share.
This prints a simple notification to anyone when a car alarm has been set off. It contains who did it and whether it has been set off by either touch or shooting at it.

Changes 1.1:
-Added game sanity check at the beginning

EDIT:
For some reason there seems to be an issue regarding the liability of this prediction. I have removed this plugin until further notice.

[eric0279]

It indicates that the car was hit while the alarm was not triggered (Weapon: Molotov)

[Marcus101RR]

The Event "explain_disturbance" kinda solves that easily, which is the director's Hint method but works only on enabled. Best thing to do is hook the entity "prop_car_alarm".

[Dr. Greg House]

Which is what I have been doing. The first issue was that "OnCarAlarmStart" both activator and caller are the entity id of the car. That is not a real issue at all because you can circumvent this with takedamage etc.. The real issue is that it seems to be impossible to determine whether that alarm car is really activated or not, at least from within a plugin. This is why I have removed the plugin for now.

Originally Posted by Marcus101RR The Event "explain_disturbance" kinda solves that easily, which is the director's Hint method but works only on enabled.[...]

Which is also exactly why it is not an option.

[Marcus101RR]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House Which is what I have been doing. The first issue was that "OnCarAlarmStart" both activator and caller are the entity id of the car. That is not a real issue at all because you can circumvent this with takedamage etc.. The real issue is that it seems to be impossible to determine whether that alarm car is really activated or not, at least from within a plugin. This is why I have removed the plugin for now. Which is also exactly why it is not an option.

Removing it may not be a wise idea, as one, we could help and test it along side, and two, it may get unapproved.

[lightpro]

What this plugin can do. I don't understand

[Marcus101RR]

Originally Posted by lightpro What this plugin can do. I don't understand

Suppose to inform the group about the car going off, but the problem is shooting next to it, or throwing stuff next to it will cause it to chirp once, which apparently also triggers his plugin. He needs to use another hook to determine if the car was startled.

[disawar1]

I found some old unreleased plugin. There is no guarantee that it works and I don't support it but may be useful.

[Marcus101RR]

Originally Posted by disawar1 I found some old unreleased plugin. There is no guarantee that it works and I don't support it but may be useful.

I was not aware that the event existed...

[Dr. Greg House]

Originally Posted by disawar1 I found some old unreleased plugin. There is no guarantee that it works and I don't support it but may be useful.

Good job!
I didn't come up with using the panic event. However I would not use the car alarm event and rather hook the car directly to find out which car was actually triggered. Also I am not sure why that clear timer exists, however, what should be done is to buffer both events (in that case the clear timer would be needed), because I don't know which one will fire at first and if that order is guaranteed to be static.