So I've been playing around with a few cosmetic items, such as showing a backpack when people have items in there inventory and such.
No plans, just learning how the system works currently.
But it appears that I can't think of a way to remove these client side models whenever the player is no longer been drawn, be it from teleporting or disconnecting etc.
I was after a way of detecting IF the player can still be drawn?
I mean I can hook disconnects and deaths and such, but no sure fired way to detect if they can be drawn still.
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Entity:Visible() might be what you are looking for.
That checks the PVS visibility, not line of sight. Basically "could I be rendering this" for the entity.
What I did to render items was to put all entities whom have cosmetic items and put them into a table. You check if those entities are no longer valid with an EntityRemoved hook, if they aren't remove all associated entities. Then I checked about every second or so if the entities in that table had left the PVS, if not I disabled the "updating" code of the entity and made it RenderMode none until it returns into the client's PVS, in which is is made visible and updates again.
[QUOTE=OzymandiasJ;42372130]Entity:Visible() might be what you are looking for.
That checks the PVS visibility, not line of sight. Basically "could I be rendering this" for the entity.
What I did to render items was to put all entities whom have cosmetic items and put them into a table. You check if those entities are no longer valid with an EntityRemoved hook, if they aren't remove all associated entities. Then I checked about every second or so if the entities in that table had left the PVS, if not I disabled the "updating" code of the entity and made it RenderMode none until it returns into the client's PVS, in which is is made visible and updates again.[/QUOTE]
Hmm, I thought of a similar method using a timer. I'm normally against repeated timers like this but 1 or 2 in client side code wouldn't hurt ;).
[QUOTE=Pantho;42372612]Hmm, I thought of a similar method using a timer. I'm normally against repeated timers like this but 1 or 2 in client side code wouldn't hurt ;).[/QUOTE]
I would actually really love a hook like "EntityLeftPVS" or something.
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