The official way to do this with the template is to copy all the SDK stuff and rename it to what you want
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Bob Somers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. > > So I'm trying to create a custom player by deriving it from CSDKPlayer, > like so: > > class CMyPlayer : public CSDKPlayer > { > // player things > }; > > I've got both the server and client players skeleton class build, I've > linked the class to the player entity with LINK_ENTITY_TO_CLASS, and > setup a simple send/recv table that just networks one boolean > temporarily. > > Lastly, I edited the _client.cpp file to instantiate a an instance of > my CMyPlayer class instead of CSDKPlayer when creating new players. > > However, now when I run the mod I break at an assertion: > > File: game\server\util.cpp > Line: 144 > Assertion Failed: FindFactory(pClassName) == NULL > > I looked into it a bit and it looks the server keeps a dictionary of > entity factories for producing entities of certain types. My guess is > that it can't find a factory to build my custom player class. I tried > looking for an example of building a CEntityFactory for it, but > couldn't find anything. Is this something I need to build myself and > call InstallFactory(), or should one of the macros be creating that? > > Lastly, am I doing something horribly wrong? i.e. should not be > subclassing CSDKPlayer? Thanks. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- - Stephen Swires _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
