Local Effects

[BoringEquations]

Hi, does showing special effects for a local player cause desyncs?

 

[Tirlititi]

Creating special effect localy will indeed desync if it is what you mean.

This is safe :

local effect e
local string s=""
if (GetLocalPlayer() == GetTriggerPlayer()) then
    set s="MyEffect"
endif
set e=AddSpecialEffect(s,0,0)

This is unsafe (because the handle ids will desync) :

local effect e
if (GetLocalPlayer() == GetTriggerPlayer()) then
    set e=AddSpecialEffect("MyEffect.mdl",0,0)
endif

For what I know, only text tags can be created localy because their handle ids are ranked from 100 to 0.