Player Death Types

[LilSumac]

In this addon I'm creating, I need a way to find out the damagetype that killed a player, such as explosion, crushed, etc. I wanted to store that type in the PlayerDeath hook, but so far I've had no luck. I've tried using inflictor:GetName() to see if the weapon that caused the death equaled a name (such as ttt_weapon_c4, or what have you), but so far, all the names are nil. I'd rather use the damagetype option, but I dunno how I could get that in the PlayerDeath hook, or anywhere for that matter. Any ideas?

[Vegasx]

Would inflictor:GetClass() work?

[LilSumac]

[QUOTE=vegasx;42730397]Would inflictor:GetClass() work?[/QUOTE]

That worked for some things. When using a weapon, it just returns 'player' instead of the weapon name.

[Gaming_Unlim]

You mean this?

[lua]
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "DeathType", function(ply, dmginfo, killer)
print(dmginfo:GetDamageType())
end)
[/lua]

[LilSumac]

[QUOTE=Gaming_Unlim;42749080]You mean this?

[lua]
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "DeathType", function(ply, dmginfo, killer)
print(dmginfo:GetDamageType())
end)
[/lua][/QUOTE]

Sort of, but I'm also looking for the name of the weapon, such as 'weapon_ttt_glock', etc. etc.

Edit: Also I don't think that second argument can use the CTakeDamageInfo methods. It's an entity, not a Damage class.

[arcaneex]

[lua]
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "Weapon name from killer", function( ply, dmg, killer )

if killer:IsPlayer() then

print(killer:GetActiveWeapon())

end

end)

[/lua]

Unless the killer switches weapons faster than lua runs, this should work.

[LilSumac]

[QUOTE=arcaneex;42751024][lua]
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "Weapon name from killer", function( ply, dmg, killer )

if killer:IsPlayer() then

print(killer:GetActiveWeapon())

end

end)

[/lua]

Unless the killer switches weapons faster than lua runs, this should work.[/QUOTE]

Looks good, I'll give it a try and see how it does.

EDIT: Worked like a charm, thank you!