How to make player invisible?

[8guawong]

How to make player invisible?

Game: CSGO

[Hedgehog]

Look into setcolor function of EZSP library: http://forums.sourcepython.com/showthread.php?603-EZSP-Libary-to-easily-access-SP-modules-amp-functions&highlight=alpha

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[L'In20Cible]

There is no known way to change the alpha of a player on CS:GO. This is a limitation of the engine itself and there is nothing we can do about that. I think this is just hard-coded/handled client-side and such information is ignored to the transmited data or something like that.

[Hedgehog]

In case you are looking for fully invisibility: (solutions from SM forums)

• Hook SetTransmit (read this: http://forums.sourcepython.com/showthread.php?570-Best-way-to-hook-something-on-player)
• Set m_flModelScale player prop to 0.00000001
• Set m_fEffects player prop to 32 (invisible) and m_fEffects to 129 (visible)

[8guawong]

nah don't need this anymore! i was thinking of putting one bot on the server and make him invisible to solve round /map restart problem :P
no need now since L'In20Cible fixed the switch_team function

[L'In20Cible]

• Set m_fEffects player prop to 32 (invisible) and m_fEffects to 129 (visible)

Well, I would not recommend hard-coding m_fEffects values. I'd rather suggest you to look at the following code.

Syntax: Select all

from constants import EntityEffects
from events import Event
from players.entity import PlayerEntity
from players.helpers import index_from_userid

@Event
def player_jump(game_event):
    # Get a PlayerEntity instance of the player...
    player = PlayerEntity(index_from_userid(game_event.get_int('userid')))
    
    # Get the current player's effects...
    effects = player.get_prop_int('m_fEffects')
    
    # Is the player already visible?
    if not effects & EntityEffects.NODRAW:
        
        # Add the NODRAW effect to the player...
        player.set_prop_int('m_fEffects', effects | EntityEffects.NODRAW)
        
    # Otherwise...
    else:
        
        # Remove the NODRAW effect from the player...
        player.set_prop_int('m_fEffects', effects & ~EntityEffects.NODRAW)

This is how it should be done. This will properly toggle the player invisibility without altering any other effects.

[satoon101]

Actually, I found this SM plugin during a search last night to try and figure this out:
https://github.com/Zipcore/Hide_And_Seek

I haven't had time to test anything with its method, as of yet, though.

[L'In20Cible]

I searched over the whole code and didn't find anything related to changing player color?

[satoon101]

I believe this is where it changes the alpha:
https://github.com/Zipcore/Hide_And_Seek/blob/master/addons/sourcemod/scripting/hide_and_seek.sp#L700

It seems that it sets the RenderMode to RENDER_TRANSTEXTURE, which is 2.

[L'In20Cible]

I think it is some code for the CS:S version. I already tested all RenderModes and nothing worked.

[Ayuto]

To make an entity completely invisible (even the weapons a player has) I hooked CBaseEntity::SetTransmit() with SPE some years ago. http://forums.eventscripts.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=45739&p=399762&hilit=SetTransmit#p399762

I'm pretty sure this will also work with CS:GO. And doing this with SP will be much easier.

[satoon101]

While invisible is nice, I would really like to find a way to change the player's alpha, if it is at all possible.

[Hedgehog]

In case of educated guess it can be caused by game default players skins (some tricky textures etc).