I think that A is the crux of the thing not working in one sense. If you're sending a message on the entities' spawn (or playing an event), the event is sent to clients far before they are in a state to 'play the event'.
Why not cache the values you need from your entity in member variables in your keyvalue function, and then send them in InitHUD (just search by classname, and xmit the data to the clients as they connect). At least anything I've done that involves some map entity that is relevant to the client (I render mine with yummy triAPI), I took that approach and once I realised it was probably good to free the memory for it (big oops in an internal build), it's been flawless. One message isn't too costly, paticularly if it's just an 'on/off' type (one byte). Cheers, Pat 'sluggo' Magnan Tour of Duty mod http://www.tourofdutymod.com At 08:16 AM 10/27/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Just taking a swing here at this. But 2 problems I see right off with this system is the fact that A.) With a entity being in the map (your grate to emit steam) its spawn function is called generally when the map is still loading (your not in the map yet). So wouldnt sending a playevent while your not fully in the game, b\c the server is still loading, pretty much void that call ? B.) If this is a multiplayer mod then the other clients would not get this event b\c its only called on map load. So clients connecting after that load would never get the msg. Thats the 2 possible problem areas Im seeing right off. -Brandon "Axis" Russell Programmer for Day of Defeat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlcoders-admin@;list.valvesoftware.com]On Behalf Of Persuter Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] Problem with client-side events Hey folks. I have a question about client-side events. I'm trying to program something simple here: an entity that sends a message to the client-side telling it to start a particle system when it spawns, i.e., a grate from which dynamic steam emits, or something similar. I have the following code: void CParticleEmitter::Spawn( void ) { Precache(); PLAYBACK_EVENT_FULL( FEV_GLOBAL | FEV_UPDATE, edict(), m_usStartParticle, 0.0, (float *)&g_vecZero, (float *)&g_vecZero, 0.0, 0.0, type, 0, 0, 0 ); } void CParticleEmitter::Precache( void ) { m_usStartParticle = PRECACHE_EVENT( 1, "events/particle.sc" ); } (type, by the way, is the type of system to add) Now, this all works fine and dandy, the event gets precached, the playback function goes through fine, the problem is that on the client side the corresponding function never gets called. On the client-side dll, I've added the function declaration in both ev_hldm.cpp and hl_events.cpp, and I've added the HookEvent in hl_events.cpp as well. I dunno, I'm perfectly able to do weapons but for some reason this one has me at a loss, and the one client-side non-weapon event in the SDK isn't much help. Am I missing something required in the spawn function or on the client side that is simply part of the weapons code? Thanks for any help. Persuter _______________________________________________ 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
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