Changing game description

[VinciT]

Is there a way to change a server's game description with SP? It's the string found in the 'Game' tab on the server browser:



SourceMod has 'OnGetGameDescription' for this, is there a way to achieve the same thing with SP?

[Ayuto]

It requires a hook. For which game do you want this?

[VinciT]

Half Life 2: Deathmatch

[Ayuto]

With version 319 you will be able to use this little snippet.

Syntax: Select all

from memory import get_virtual_function
from memory.hooks import PreHook

from engines.server import server_game_dll

@PreHook(get_virtual_function(server_game_dll, 'GetGameDescription'))
def pre_get_game_description(args):
    return 'Your description'

[iPlayer]

I looked at how SM (SteamWorks extension) does it, and it uses SetGameDescription from ISteamGameServer.
Isn't that better to use the function that is meant to set game description anyway?

https://github.com/KyleSanderson/SteamWorks/blob/master/Extension/gsnatives.cpp#L91
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/blob/master/mp/src/public/steam/isteamgameserver.h#L38

[Ayuto]

Yeah I didn't know that method exists.

However, getting this to work requires more work, because the ISteamGameServer header is missing (at least in CS:S). We should create a PR for that. For now the snippet should suffice. :P

[VinciT]

Works great, thank you so much Ayuto.