Game weapon manager

Entity description

It is used to limit the number of a particular weapon type in the world. Useful in places where NPCs are spawning rapidly, dying, and dropping weapons.

This entity conducts a count of all the weapons in the world of my type and see if we have a surplus. If there is a surplus, try to find suitable candidates for removal. Right now we just remove the first weapons we find that are behind the player, or are out of the player's PVS.

Note:This code is designed to not remove weapons that are hand-placed by level designers. It should only clean up weapons dropped by dead NPCs, which is useful in situations where enemies are spawned in for a sustained period of time.

Warning:This entity is designed using UTIL_GetLocalPlayer, which returns NULL in any type of multiplayer game.

In code it is represented by class CGameWeaponManager, defined in basecombatweapon_shared.cpp.

Keyvalues

Weapon Classname (weaponname) <string>

Classname of the weapon type to limit.

Max Allowed in Level (maxpieces) <integer>

The maximum amount of the specified weapon type allowed in the world.

Ammo modifier (ammomod) <float>

Modifier for amount of ammo dropped by a weapon.

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

Inputs

SetAmmoModifier <floatRedirectInput/float>

Adjust the ammo modifier.