Reliably track individual players?

[cesig]

I'm trying to put together a map with a nonstandard gameplay type, and I'm having issues. Specifically, I need to be able to track individual players based on who triggers what trigger. I've seen a tutorial on how to do this, but I haven't had much luck implementing the idea so far. But I've heard it works.

But even if I do implement this, how can I track when a player dies? I need to reset the triggers in case a player dies midway through, but I haven't found a way to do that.

Basically, I'm maintaining a list of players, and I need to remove dead players from that list. But I don't know how. I even tried to reset everything on respawn, but I couldn't figure out how to trigger stuff on respawn. Plus, if a player dies and logs out, the whole system is borked from then on out.

Ideas?

 

[cesig]

I just found this thread. I'll have to see if it will help me do what I need to do. http://tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=635

 

[A Boojum Snark]

I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want, there isn't a whole lot that can be done with the player as an entity. Sadly, I could tell you in an instant how to do this back with the awesome TFC entities... still irks me that they made TF2 so rigid.

 

[cesig]

I feel the same way! Remeber the Rock? That map was awesome. I can't wait for someone to make a TF2 ver.....oh wait...YOU CAN'T DO IT IN TF2.

Hopefully they'll open it up some in the upcoming patches.