Rewriting player_hurt dmg_health

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to adjust a throwing knife mod (http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=125226) so that if a player has some throwing knives left and they knife someone then it will deal the amount of damage a throwing knife usually would rather than the usual amount. This is because players often complain that they are trying to throw a throwing knife (which does 57hp damage) when they are in close quarters combat, but since they are too close to the victim it performs a standard left click knife attack (17hp damage) instead.



I went ahead and added this to OnPluginStart, just like the other hooks:

Code:

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HookEvent("player_hurt", EventPlayerHurt, EventHookMode_Pre);

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and have written this action:

Code:

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public Action:EventPlayerHurt(Handle:event,const String:name[],bool:dontBroadcast) { // Checking for left click knifings that should be throwing knives instead



    if (GetConVarBool(g_CVarEnable)) {

        decl String:checkWeapon[32];

        GetEventString(event, "weapon", checkWeapon, sizeof(checkWeapon));

        if (!StrEqual(checkWeapon, "knife")){

            return Plugin_Continue;

        }

        new client = GetClientOfUserId(GetEventInt(event, "userid"));

        if (!IsFakeClient(client) && StrEqual(checkWeapon, "knife") && (g_iKnives[client] > 0)) {

            LogMessage("Knife health should be adjusted to %d", StringToInt(g_sDamage));

            SetEventInt(event, "dmg_health", StringToInt(g_sDamage));

            LogMessage("Knife health actually adjusted to %d", GetEventInt(event, "dmg_health"));

        }

        return Plugin_Changed;

    }

    return Plugin_Continue;

}

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I *thought* that this would hook the player_hurt event before it was actually fired, check to make sure that it is a knife being used, change the damage the knife is applying, and then fire the weapon. I added the LogMessage()s to debug and it spits out the correct information:

Code:

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L 10/21/2011 - 18:51:42: [cssthrowingknives.smx] Knife health should be adjusted to 61

L 10/21/2011 - 18:51:42: [cssthrowingknives.smx] Knife health actually adjusted to 61

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I'm not really sure why this isn't working, unless it is changing the notification after the fact even though I am Pre-Hooking.



Any ideas?



Once I get the damage adjustment working correctly then I will subtract a knife from the player as if he had actually thrown a knife.

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