Best way to retrieve steamid / gametag?

[Tuck]

whats the fastest way to retrieve steamid from userid? and retrieve players gametag from steamid/userid ?


currently i would retrieve it this way;

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from Source import Player

for player in Player.Players():
    if player.GetUserID() == userid:
        steam_id = player.GetNetworkIDString()
        tag = player.GetName()

[Monday]

Well if you had the player instance already you could use IVEngineServer.GetPlayerNetworkIDString()

[Tuck]

so looping true all the IPlayerInfo are the fastest way possible if only information i have is userid?

[Monday]

I believe so.. We may later add library methods that do the looping for you, but all that will provide is a little less work on your end.

Satoon has been messing with the player stuff much more than I have, so maybe he will chime in.

[Tuck]

I believe so.. We may later add library methods that do the looping for you, but all that will provide is a little less work on your end.

Satoon has been messing with the player stuff much more than I have, so maybe he will chime in.

well looping is fine though, maybe it's just me but wouldnt a api that stores the IPlayerInfo in a dict where each key is a userid be even faster than having to loop?

[Monday]

I'm not sure about this... but I think this would work:

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myPlayer = Player.PlayerOfUserid(userid)
steamid = myPlayer.GetNetworkIDString()
tag = myPlayer.GetName()

Try it out?

well looping is fine though, maybe it's just me but wouldnt a api that stores the IPlayerInfo in a dict where each key is a userid be even faster than having to loop? :)

Not really.. the problem with that is it will slow down the plugin itself, because it has to do all that work regardless if you use the functionality or not.

[Tuck]

I'm not sure about this... but I think this would work:

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myPlayer = Player.PlayerOfUserid(userid)
steamid = myPlayer.GetNetworkIDString()
tag = myPlayer.GetName()

Try it out?

Oh damn i feel stupid the PlayerOfUserid method (think i read about it yesterday) forgot all about that xD

Thanks a bunch :) was just what i was looking for :)

[BackRaw]

Oh damn i feel stupid the PlayerOfUserid method (think i read about it yesterday) forgot all about that xD

Thanks a bunch was just what i was looking for

Don't feel stupid^^ feel..... surprised that this works