Cafu Engine

I want to be able to heal a player, so i write a member Function of EntHumanPlayerT TakeHeal() that gives the Player +20 Health

So in Think() I write a Code that starts a trace, get an EntityID if the crosshair is on a player i would heal.

So now the problem
With GetBaseEntityByID i get just a BaseEntityT, but this doesnt have the member function TakeHeal. So i need a EntHumanPlayerT.

Could I convert the BaseEntityT to EntHumanPlayerT or could I get a EntHumanPlayerT by a EntityID??

i belive the second one but im not positive and havent played with much yet so try it and find out!!! you cant hurt anything... too bad... just save first.

if "ptr" is the pointer to the BaseEntityT

so "(EntHumanPlayerT *) ptr" is a pointer to the same entity but seen as a EntHumanPlayerT.

but don't forget to test if the entity is really a player, not an other entity (invisible or a weapon...)

So I write

BaseEntityT* HitEntity = EngineFunctions->GetBaseEntityByID(EngineFunctions->Ca3DEWorldHandle, HitEntityID);
((EntCompanyBotT*)HitEntity)->TakeHeal();

Edit: I include "CompanyBot.hpp" and it works fine

Edit:
Hmm, with EntHumanPlayerT instead of EntCompanyBotT it works fine

BaseEntityT* HitEntity = EngineFunctions->GetBaseEntityByID(EngineFunctions->Ca3DEWorldHandle, HitEntityID);
((EntCompanyBotT*)HitEntity)->TakeHeal();

Thank you very much

Nice to see that you and the others solved the problem even before I noticed the first post.

Camille is right: If you are sure that the BaseEntityT* actually points to a EntHumanPlayerT*, casting the pointer as you did is no problem.

Another approach would be to keep the code that you have in "TakeHeal()" just where you want to apply it, and work with the BaseEntityT* directly, like this: This variant is not very OO, but also works without the potentially unsafe pointer cast.