Shared.GetEntitiesWithClassname() issue

Huze

I was hoping to use the data from Shared.GetEntitiesWithClassname("Player") to update my Insight player frames. This works perfectly except that Shared.GetEntitiesWithClassname only returns players that are currently on the screen for the spectator. Does anyone know if there is another function I can use to get all players connected to the server, or is this a dead end?

Thanks for any help.

player

Obviously only entities within range of the client are sent to that client respectively, otherwise it'd be horribly inefficient and cheat-prone. The only way to know who is connected to the server is to pull the data from the scoreboard (if we're aiming for compatibility with vanilla-servers anyway).

Asraniel

you will have to do, whatever you want to do, server side. As mentioned, for cheat and optimization reasons, the client becomes only what he needs. And it will get worse than now, because the client recieves too much information for the moment.

Huze

That's too bad. I was hoping spectators would somehow be able to obtain all that information. Thanks for the quick reply.

Asraniel

You can still make an exception in the server code for spectators, so that they recieve everything. But then you mod will be client and serverside.

Dghelneshi

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Our mod is impossible to make client side anyway. We already have network messages for the additional stuff, he just thought he had found an easier way to do it.