I dont understand the last 3/4's of your post but theres a flag you can pass when you create a CVAR to make it shared between client and server. Sorry, dont remember its name right now. Just make the CVAR once in a file thats compiled into both, and give it that flag.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:27:49 -0700, Markus Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to share the same console variables between the client and > server in a file that is compiled into both dlls. What I do in my > shared file is create a pointer to the cvars like so: > ConVar *melee_dmg = cvar->FindVar( "melee_dmg" ); > > And this works fine for both client and server. Now, the actual cvar > is defined in the normal way in a seperate file, but it is only > compiled into the server. Compiling a cvar into both dlls causes one > to override the other, and thus the cvar(s) do not work. > > This seems like perfectly sound code as all goes well until actually > loading the dlls hot off the compiler. For some reason when I load my > mod, the Half-Life2 dlls are loaded instead. I am thinking the engine > decides something is wrong with my dlls, but I find this rather > irritating, as I would prefer a crash that I could perhaps debug.. All > this happens without any error output whatsoever. > > I assume that on the client, FindVar() can find the cvars. Perhaps > this is not the case. It is not really essential that the client knows > the value of the cvar, except maybe for flow control later on down the > road.. However, I am trying to avoid #ifdef hell as much as possible > as this is a shared file. > > Greetings, > -Markus > > _______________________________________________ > 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
