What sort of low level hacks are you considering?
You may want to look into what Pavol Marko did for SourceMod, a general manager for creating iterated lists of hooks to members in virtual interfaces: http://www.sourcemod.net/devlog/index.php?p=17 (this gives metamod style functionality for things like IVEngineServer and the GameDLL interface).
Entities are a bit different, of course, because you need to hook non-virtual things (so far)... Lance can probably tell you more about this if you ask him nicely, he's done it :)
---David "BAILOPAN" Anderson http://www.sourcemod.net/
Michael Hobson wrote:
Alfred,
Thank you for the quick reply.
At 05:40 PM 2/19/2005, you wrote:
They are loaded just after the DllInit() call to the game server dll. What are you doing that requires a particular ordering of load?
So the Game DLL's - DLLInit() is called, passing in the engine interfaces and what have you.
Then any server plug-ins specified in the mods '/addon' folder get their DLLInit() calls.
Then the map begins loading and we start spawning game entities ?
The reason I asked is because I am considering some really evil low-level [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to provide some of the the API hooking functionality that Metamod provided which the server plugin interface does not.
Particularly with regard to tracking the game DLL's entity creation and possibly modifying those entities as can be done with Metamod, but there are other ideas I have that are not very concrete yet.
Mostly, I'm scoping out capabilities at the moment.
- Alfred
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael A. Hobson Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:21 AM To: HLCoders Subject: [hlcoders] Server Plug-in Loading Order
Jay, Yahn or Alfred:
Does the engine load server plug-ins *before* or *after* a mod's game DLL and is this order guaranteed (even on Linux ) ?
Michael A. Hobson yahoo: warrior_mike2001 icq: #2186709 mike (at) crusader (dash) services (dot) com
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