-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] That's what I've done...sig scan for the event queue and some of the overloads of AddEvent. With CreateNamedEntity, KeyValues, and AddEvent, you can do some cool stuff. For example, I have a trip mine setup that works completely based on those three things without need for the plugin to monitor players and see which player's tripmine killed which player.
It would be nice to have access to those things via plugins without hacking, but so far we haven't seen much in the way of access to mod-specific functions. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tony Paloma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
