Solved Track explosive owner

Is there a route to take to track who threw a grenade, timed explosive, or fired a rocket so you can track who killed who with an explosive? Or is that a no go right now?

 

I've add the OnWeaponThrown(BasePlayer player, BaseEntity entity) hook a while back so you could use that one.

 

Thanks Mughisi. I'll see what I can do.

 

Hello Mughisi, The OnWeaponThrown helped me to track the owner of all explosives except for the rockets. Do you know of anyway to do this? I was messing about and used a Raycast that went out from the rocket itself backwards. It detects the player almost all the time now, but if it explodes immediately, it may or may not detect the player. Is there any good way to track a rocket's owner at the moment, or has no one else tried? I can post my code if you want to see what I have for it, but it's messy. Just let me know if you want to see what I've got.

 

In the hook's defense, a rocket is shot and not thrown You should be able to grab the position of the rocket when it spawns and then just grab the player by using a spherecast or something, if a lot of players are in the spherecast it will grab multiple people though but you just need the cast to be just big enough to get the player and not anything else Or I might look into adding the hook OnFireRocket

 

That's the problem I saw with a spherecast, so I use a raycast that shoots out of the rockets rear. If you manage to get OnFireRocket that would be great. xP
[DOUBLEPOST=1432007761,1431813114][/DOUBLEPOST]For anyone that comes across this thread, I just added a pull request (#360) for OnRocketFired which functions the same way that OnWeaponThrown does. I'm hoping this will get merged, because if it does it means we will also be able to track rocket owners.

 

Code:

[HookMethod("OnWeaponThrown")]
        void OnWeaponThrown(BasePlayer player, BaseEntity entity)
        {            entity.name = String.Format("{0}[{1}]", entity.name, player.userID); //Combines to create: item/timed.explosive.deployed(Clone)[76561198076504297]        }

Code:

if (hitInfo.Initiator.ToString().StartsWith("item"))
                {
                    string[] attackerArray = hitInfo.Initiator.name.ToString().Split('/');
                    attacker = attackerArray[attackerArray.Length - 1]; //timed.explosive.deployed(Clone)[76561198076504297]                    if (hitInfo.Initiator.GetType().ToString().EndsWith("Explosive"))
                    {
                        string[] attackerArray2 = attacker.Split(new Char[] { '(', ')', '[', ']' }); //'timed.explosive.deployed' 'Clone' '' '76561198076504297' ''
                        weapon = attackerArray2[0]; //timed.explosive.deployed                        attackerID = attackerArray2[3]; //76561198076504297
                        attacker = BasePlayer.Find(attackerID).displayName; //tarper24
                    }
                }

This is code taken from my plugin that I'm currently working on. It works every time to track the owner of a thrown explosive. I also have added a hook for rockets locally. Once they add that hook, rockets will be able to be tracked in a similar manner. I only need to know the owner of the explosive, so I only attach the ID, but you could attach any information you wanted.

I hope this helps clear things up on how you can use these hooks to track the owner, and other things, if you needed.