Oh, and what I thought of just before I sent the mail (grr huh?) is that if you don't want to use pev->message you could just use classname, and strip off the "monster_" part (look at how the deathnotice is done where monsters are concerned)
-omega http://www.frontline2.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony "omega" Sergi Sent: September 18, 2003 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Displaying enemy name on HUD It doesn't USE targetname. What that is, is the ENTITY INDEX of the player; the client dll can read all players names from their entity index. Monsters don't _have_ names. So you'll have to change the whole id system so it sends the classname of the entity, but NOT as an entity index. Did you look at the code on the client side that processes it? Here is how I do it in FLF (based on Pink's original code, I optimized it to allow you to ID any monster (mainly for turrets here) in one if statement. First, inside the monsters spawn function, I fill pev->message (I use message because I'm already using netname for something else, but if you're not, you can use netname respectively) IE: pev->message = MAKE_STRING("Turret"); Then inside the ID function: //omega; modified to only allow you to id team-mates (you could use it to aim //over distances at the enemy, and in some cases see people who were //camouflaged) if (pEntity->Classify() == CLASS_PLAYER && pEntity->pev->team == pev->team) { Regular player id stuff; } //find out if it's a monster of any kind, if it is, then id it from its //"message" (set in the "monster" spawn function) else if (strstr(STRING(pEntity->pev->classname), "monster")) { CBaseTurret *pTur = (CBaseTurret *)pEntity; if (pTur->IRelationship(this)) sprintf (sbuf0, "%s[ Enemy %s ]", "%r", STRING(pTur->pev->message)); else sprintf(sbuf0, "%s[ Friendly %s ]", "%g", STRING(pTur->pev->message)); m_flStatusBarDisappearDelay = gpGlobals->time + 1.0; } I removed all tabs so that it fits inside the size restriction of plain text. -omega http://www.frontline2.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tuomo Virtanen Sent: September 18, 2003 6:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Displaying enemy name on hud Ok maybe i should clear somethings up a bit the code is actually in the original SDK and it does send data to client.dll so it can display the data that is Name, Health and Armor here is the original code: if (pEntity->Classify() == CLASS_PLAYER ) { newSBarState[ SBAR_ID_TARGETNAME ] = ENTINDEX( pEntity->edict() ); strcpy( sbuf1, "1 %p1\n2 Health: %i2%%\n3 Armor: %i3%%" ); // allies and medics get to see the targets health if ( g_pGameRules->PlayerRelationship( this, pEntity ) == GR_TEAMMATE ) { newSBarState[ SBAR_ID_TARGETHEALTH ] = 100 * (pEntity->pev->health / pEntity->pev->max_health); newSBarState[ SBAR_ID_TARGETARMOR ] = pEntity->pev->armorvalue; //No need to get it % based since 100 it's the max. m_flStatusBarDisappearDelay = gpGlobals->time + 1.0; } so i need to change this code to make it so that it sends the monster targetname as name i already made another copy of this code and changed the CLASS_PLAYER to CLASS_PLAYER_ALLY _______________________________________________ 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
