Death Screen

[Suicidal Dog]

I am trying to make a death screen appear when a player dies and want to use the PlayerDeath hook to get the killers name weapon and other such info. I am just asking someone to give me a little bit of code where a VGui appears on death and I can use the attacker, inflictor and victim parts of player death. My previous efforts haven't ended too well and just want someone to show me how I would do this by coding it, just an example of the attacker and other parts of the PlayerDeath hook being used.

[MrPresident]

Use PlayerDeath to get the info you want and then send those to the player with a net message.

Then use a HUDPaint hook and a LocalPlayer():Alive() check to draw info to their screen when they're dead. The info you want needs to be sent from the server though.. here is a mockup..

this is VERY rough and probably (definitely) won't actually work..

SERVER CODE

Code: Lua

1. util.AddNetworkString("send_death_info")
2.  
3.  
4. function PlayerDies( ply, infl, attacter )
5.         local killer = attacker:Nick()
6.         local weapon = attacker:GetActiveWeapon():GetClass()
7.        
8.         net.Start( "send_death_info" )
9.         net.WriteString( killer )
10.         net.WriteString( weapon )
11.         net.Send( ply )
12. end
13. hook.Add( "PlayerDeath", "MyPlayerDeathHook", PlayerDies )
14.  

CLIENTSIDE CODE

Code: Lua

1. AddCSLuaFile()
2.  
3. local killer = ""
4. local weapon = ""
5.  
6. net.Receive( "send_death_info", function( ply, len )
7.         killer = net.ReadString()
8.         weapon = net.ReadString()
9. end )
10.  
11. function DeathScreen()
12.         if LocalPlayer():Alive() then return end
13.         FANCY HUD CODE HERE TO DISPLAY THE STUFF YOU WANT TO DISPLAY...
14. end
15. hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "MyDeathScreen", DeathScreen )
16.  

That will get you going.. anything more than that, and you're just asking someone to do it for you, in which case you should just come out and ask someone to do it for you...

[iViscosity]

Code: Lua

1. function PlayerDies( ply, infl, attacter )
2.  

Attacter?



EDIT: I just realized too, I don't think you need to do attacker:GetWeapon():GetClass() because 'inflictor' is the entity used to kill the person. Can't you just use inflictor:GetClass()? Also I think you'd need to check for if you fell or killed yourself because then the attacker wouldn't have a weapon, or the attacker == victim

[Suicidal Dog]

Use PlayerDeath to get the info you want and then send those to the player with a net message.

Then use a HUDPaint hook and a LocalPlayer():Alive() check to draw info to their screen when they're dead. The info you want needs to be sent from the server though.. here is a mockup..

this is VERY rough and probably (definitely) won't actually work..

SERVER CODE

Code: Lua

1. util.AddNetworkString("send_death_info")
2.  
3.  
4. function PlayerDies( ply, infl, attacter )
5.         local killer = attacker:Nick()
6.         local weapon = attacker:GetActiveWeapon():GetClass()
7.        
8.         net.Start( "send_death_info" )
9.         net.WriteString( killer )
10.         net.WriteString( weapon )
11.         net.Send( ply )
12. end
13. hook.Add( "PlayerDeath", "MyPlayerDeathHook", PlayerDies )
14.  

CLIENTSIDE CODE

Code: Lua

1. AddCSLuaFile()
2.  
3. local killer = ""
4. local weapon = ""
5.  
6. net.Receive( "send_death_info", function( ply, len )
7.         killer = net.ReadString()
8.         weapon = net.ReadString()
9. end )
10.  
11. function DeathScreen()
12.         if LocalPlayer():Alive() then return end
13.         FANCY HUD CODE HERE TO DISPLAY THE STUFF YOU WANT TO DISPLAY...
14. end
15. hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "MyDeathScreen", DeathScreen )
16.  

That will get you going.. anything more than that, and you're just asking someone to do it for you, in which case you should just come out and ask someone to do it for you...

Thanks man extremely helpful, glad this community exists.

[MrPresident]

Attacter?



EDIT: I just realized too, I don't think you need to do attacker:GetWeapon():GetClass() because 'inflictor' is the entity used to kill the person. Can't you just use inflictor:GetClass()? Also I think you'd need to check for if you fell or killed yourself because then the attacker wouldn't have a weapon, or the attacker == victim

Yeah, there are lots of things you'd need to do. This was just to give him an idea of which hooks to use and how to go about it. I didn't intend to have written out everything.

To rule out non-player attackers, you could always do

Code: [Select]

if not attacker:IsPlayer() then return end