? About the Madness of the mods.

Hello all the monster is in.

Well there was some ? about why medkit and weapon ammo boxes where showing up on the screen when loading maps in some clients.

The items that come up when you connect to a map are not items on the map. They are items that the server is telling the client to load in to memory for the match. A good example of this is hook.
most mods will register lighting gun , when they register hook. So the hooks line do's not look gray.

Well in a mod like Freeze Plus 1.4 test3. Where you can have none weapon-replacement drops. Like the Ammo Boxes. When the cvar are set to /drops "1" you need to register the weapon-replacement along with the weapon. So if your weapon is Rail gun the client will load rail gun and slugs in to memory. This way if you die and weapon-replacements are being used it will not drop a blank model. The defalut drop in this case is the medkit. If for some resion there is no replacement set up for a given item. It will drop a holdable item.

Becouse a item is appering in the load screen when a macth starts. Do's not mean it is loaded on the map. For that matter you could have every item in the game load in to memery. Show up in the load screen. And if the map items are disabled. The item will never spawn on that map. Only items that are droped by someone will spawn.

Now on to /clearmap. /clearmap "1" will disable every item that would be loaded on a map from doing so. NOT EVEN CTF FLAGS will spawn if /clearmap is set to "1". Juat something to think about.

Any way I need to get a little ready rest