quakec cvar change

[behind_you]

is there a way to change a cvar, every time i shoot with a shotgun for example?

[Nahuel]

mmm. do you want that a specific function is realized as if it was lowering the command line and writes there something?
Is it that or I understood badly?

[behind_you]

lets say i had a shotgun. Everytime i shoot with it, i want the sv_maxspeed to become 250. How do i accomplish this?

[Ranger366]

lets say i had a shotgun. Everytime i shoot with it, i want the sv_maxspeed to become 250. How do i accomplish this?

stuffcmd (self, "sv_maxspeed 250\n");

called in W_FireShotgun or whatever, a very hacky thing

[Nahuel]

lets say i had a shotgun. Everytime i shoot with it, i want the sv_maxspeed to become 250. How do i accomplish this?

stuffcmd (self, "sv_maxspeed 250\n");

called in W_FireShotgun or whatever, a very hacky thing

I agree

[behind_you]

thanks u guys!

[behind_you]

ok now whenever i shoot with the shotgun it says 'sv_maxspeed' changed to '250.' how do i make it not say that?

[mh]

ok now whenever i shoot with the shotgun it says 'sv_maxspeed' changed to '250.' how do i make it not say that?

You can't. It's a server cvar, which means that any changes made to it are broadcast to all connected clients.

By the way, if you're going to do this, do it carefully. People might have set their own values for cvars that suit the way they like to play the game, and they won't take kindly to you stomping all over their settings. At the very least save out the previous value and restore it properly when done - don't assume that it's always at the default.

[behind_you]

ok can i stop from broadcasting all server cvars? Im making a single player mod so it should matter, right? Or do bots get affected by this sort of thing?

[Ranger366]

ok can i stop from broadcasting all server cvars? Im making a single player mod so it should matter, right? Or do bots get affected by this sort of thing?

Only clients (and fakeclients eventually) get affected by it.
I think with "bots" you mean enemies such as the ogre or the enforcer - they dont get affected.

[behind_you]

im using frikbots, they arent getting affected, right? Nd that stupid broadcast message is pissin me off.

[mh]

You can't stop it broadcasting unless you modify the engine.

[behind_you]

You can't stop it broadcasting unless you modify the engine.

Where specifically? Thats what im currently trying to find out

[Spike]

stuffcmd(foo, "sv_foo\n");

forgive me while I vomit....

*vomits*

try localcmd("sv_foo\n"); instead. It'll probably work more reliably.

Won't silence the prints though.
You should use grep/find-in-files for that instead. "'%s' changed to '%s'\n" will probably turf something up.

[mh]

In the Cvar_Set function, this is the block of code that you need to remove:

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   if (var->server && changed)
   {
      if (sv.active)
         SV_BroadcastPrintf ("\"%s\" changed to \"%s\"\n", var->name, var->string);
   }