Library

Server-side library functions for UPS.

Summary

Library	Server-side library functions for UPS.
Functions
playDenySound	Takes care of playing the “access denied” sound to a client.
PLAYER: UPSGetOwnedEnts	Gets a table of entities this player owns.
getUIDOwnedEnts	Gets a table of entities this uid owns.
replicatedWritableCvar	This function is mainly intended for use with the menus.

Functions

playDenySound

function playDenySound( ply )

Takes care of playing the “access denied” sound to a client. IE, use this when they try to grab a prop they cannot.

Parameters

ply	A valid player object to the play the sound to

PLAYER: UPSGetOwnedEnts

Gets a table of entities this player owns. The table is indexed by entity and the value is always true. The table is done this way so you don’t have to search the table for an entity.

Returns

The table.

getUIDOwnedEnts

function getUIDOwnedEnts( uid )

Gets a table of entities this uid owns. The table is indexed by entity and the value is always true. The table is done this way so you don’t have to search the table for an entity.

Returns

The table or nil if the uid isn’t known.

replicatedWritableCvar

function replicatedWritableCvar( sv_cvar,
cl_cvar,
default_value,
save,
notify,
access )

This function is mainly intended for use with the menus. This function is very similar to creating a replicated cvar with one caveat. This function also creates a cvar on the client that can be modified and will be sent back to the server. The value of the client cvars are updated on spawn menu open and only sent back to the server if changed on spawn menu close.

Parameters

sv_cvar	The string of server side cvar.
cl_cvar	The string of the client side cvar. THIS MUST BE DIFFERENT FROM THE sv_cvar VALUE.
default_value	The string of the default value for the cvar.
save	Boolean of whether or not the value is persistent across map changes.
notify	Boolean of whether or not value changes are announced on the server
access	The string of the access required for a client to actually change the value.

Returns

The server-side cvar object.