Oh, if you want the owner, you should try something like GetOwner() or
GetOwnerEntity() on the NPC to get his owner ;)
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:30:46 +0200, Matthew Dryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> But the information I'm trying to pull is actually a player...it's just
> the owner of this particular NPC...:S
>
> Emiel Regis wrote:
>> You cannot type_cast from player to npc safely, because they differ
>> considerably. You should think of other way of doing this, I guess ;)
>>
>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:15:40 +0200, Matthew Dryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hey all, I'm not familiar with pointers...wondering if you can give me
>>> a
>>> push in the right direction:
>>>
>>> if ( pKiller->IsNPC() )
>>> {
>>> // CAI_BaseNPC *pNPC = (CAI_BaseNPC*)pKiller;
>>> CAI_BaseNPC *pNPC = dynamic_cast<CHL2MP_Player*>(pKiller);
>>> if ( pNPC->LikesMaster() )
>>> pKiller = pNPC->GetMasterPlayer();
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'm getting these errors:
>>>
>>> hl2mp_gamerules.cpp
>>> ..\shared\hl2mp\hl2mp_gamerules.cpp(452) : error C2440: 'initializing'
>>> :
>>> cannot convert from 'CHL2MP_Player *' to 'CAI_BaseNPC *'
>>> Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
>>> reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
>>> ..\shared\hl2mp\hl2mp_gamerules.cpp(454) : error C2440: '=' : cannot
>>> convert from 'CBasePlayer *' to 'CHL2MP_Player *'
>>> Cast from base to derived requires dynamic_cast or static_cast
>>>
>>> The idea is that if my monster likes me and kills another player or
>>> monster...it will make the killer the owner of said monster...meaning I
>>> killed the player.
>>>
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