I agree that Valve does need to offer more interfaces to plugins for things like this. Doing anything with entities is incredibly limited given the provided resources. However, I think each one of these things is a simple vfunc call away to the desired result. ent_fire and ent_name can be accomplished using the AcceptInput virtual function, and give can be done with GiveNamedItem. There is no hooking or sig scanning required unless you meant to do something more advanced like get at the event queue or something.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattieC Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:33 PM To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlcoders] Requesting (again): ent_fire and ent_name APIs for Server Plugins? -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Can you consider adding ent_fire and ent_name API equivalents for Source server plugins? (Ideally these interact via index/pointer rather than name, but if we can name entities by index that would be the same thing, really.) Getting access to the entity event/message queue without hacks/tricks would open many stable doors and I've voiced this opinion in the past. This is one of the biggest deficiencies of the server-side plugin SDK. Ideally, the "give" API (or any name-based entity creation method) would also be included, but there may be more mod-specific issues for you there, perhaps. Currently without hacks/hooks it's very difficult to emulate this. Is there any reason entity inputs/messaging weren't exposed via interfaces that server plugins can access? If the above is not possible, what kind of things could the Source engine offer for better entity manipulation? Thanks very, very much in advance--- -Mattie http://www.eventscripts.com -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
