Well UTIL_GetPlayerConnectionInfo wouldn't work because there's no entity so player is null. But engine->GetPlayerNetInfo might have worked as a hack. Good idea, but too late I already solved it manually. :)
At 2006/04/01 11:06 PM, Aaron Schiff wrote: >-- >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >Try this: call UTIL_GetPlayerConnectionInfo on the player...if both ping and >packetloss are 0, then the user isn't connected...(this *may *not be the >case for localhost users) > >On 4/1/06, Physical Mayhem Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Incidentally you can't simply keep a counter of connections and >> disconnections to get this number. I found this out the hard way when a >> client "reconnect" caused 2 disconnections in a row, followed by a >> connection. I've been unable to reproduce a "reconnect". If you do the >> "retry" command, you re-connect quickly, but that's not the same thing. >> >> Oh well, I hacked around it with a std::set of connected edict >> pointers. I'd post a patch, but all the code went in my custom mod class, >> and it's trivial anyway. >> >> At 2006/03/26 01:38 PM, Physical Mayhem Bug wrote: >> >Background: there's a bug or missing feature that doesn't allow a mod to >> tell how many player slots are really in use by clients. The mod can only >> tell how many slots have clients that have spawned into the server. So I >> think I have a hack in place involving counting connections and >> disconnections. >> > >> >This would be a lot easier if I made a FL_EDICT_IS_CONNECTED flag for >> m_fStateFlags but that's shared by the engine, so doing so seems >> questionable. Anyone know if adding new edict flags is allowed by the API? >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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 >> >> > > >-- >ts2do >-- > >_______________________________________________ >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
