Is there a way I can have a weapon check to see if a player is the traitor?

[KarateWalrus]

I'd like to change stats on the gun depending on the player being the traitor or not. 'if client.IsTraitor' or something like that.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Me

[SweptThrone]

yeah it's almost exactly that, but a function. to :IsTraitor() instead of .IsTraitor

[KarateWalrus]

I tried
if client:IsTraitor()

but it says

attempt to index global 'client' (a nil value)

[KarateWalrus]

Oh see I was calling a global variable which traitor or innocent or detective can't be because then it would apply to everyone. But everyone has their own variable. I had to put it in a legitimate function that the game uses. So I found drawhud in weapon_tttbase. That is something that will get called everytime a weapon gets equipped. So now I can identify if a player is indeed a traitor or not and changes stats accordingly. I set to print to console to see if it was working and my name came up in the console when I Was the traitor so looks good. When I'm finished I would not have it print to the console, just change weapon stats.

function SWEP:DrawHUD()
local client = LocalPlayer()
if client.IsTraitor and client:IsTraitor() then
print(client)
//weapon stat changes go here
else
print("not traitor") 
end
end

[KarateWalrus]

Oh well balls. Sweps are loaded when the level loads. So changing the weapon's stats from within the lua file after the game has already loaded doesn't work. I suppose I could have a different version of the weapon be given to the traitor via some code to delete one weapon and go off a modified different .lua file for the weapon being picked up. So there'd be two lua files for the same weapon, one for traitors and one for everyone else. Anyhoo - that's another deal.

[2048khzgachirmx]

pseudocode

local stronkTs = {["weapon_m16"] = 1.25, ["weapon_deagle"] = 0.8} --means m16 will deal 125% dmg for T's and deagle will deal only 80% dmg for T's

hook.Add("ScalePlayerDamage", "ScaleTDamage", function(ply, hg, dmg)
local atk = dmg:GetAttacker()   
if not IsPlayer(atk) or not atk:IsTraitor() then return end --attacker is not a player or not a traitor; bail

local wep = atk:GetActiveWeapon():GetClass() -- there's probably a better way; if the attacker deals 100 prop damage
-- and holds an m16 during that time, the damage will be 125.
if stronkTs[wep] then     -- if there's an entry for the weapon the attacker was holding
dmg:SetDamage(dmg:GetDamage()*stronkTs[wep]) -- apply damage multiplier
end   

end)

[KarateWalrus]

ok I'll test this out

[TomatoSoup]

While what you wrote most recently should work, changing the stats should work. Can you post your code from this attempt?