WardsPlacedChangedEvent does not fire

[jfbn]

The event PlayerWardsPlacedChanged does not fire when the player places a ward.

Other events are firing in my test setup so I guess it's specific to this event.

GameState.Player.LocalPlayer.WardsPlaced also does not change.

Semi related request:

Is there any chance you can expand the Ward related events to contain information about where the ward was placed? This data is the reason I tried this library out. I am working on another DOTA project that deals with ward positions and I want to use this to debug ward positions.

[antonpup]

Hello Johan,

The player detail for placed wards is only available in spectator mode. At least that's what I have documented for that field, https://github.com/antonpup/Dota2GSI/blob/master/Dota2GSI/Nodes/PlayerProvider/PlayerDetails.cs#L209.

I am not sure that Dota 2 itself exposes positional information for wards. Even if it does, the positional coordinates are usually only available while spectating a game. At least for CS2, no positional coordinates are available when a local player is in the game.

You might be able to get placed ward locations from the Minimap provider, https://github.com/antonpup/Dota2GSI/blob/master/Dota2GSI/Nodes/MinimapProvider/MinimapElement.cs.

[jfbn]

Hey @antonpup thank you for taking your time to answer.

I was hoping to use this tool as a crutch for debugging player (playing) related events. Unfortunately it is not that helpful for me to extract the events from a replay, as my research revolves around understanding the bounding boxes that events are grouped into (the map is enourmous but events such was wards being placed are grouped into a 128 x 128 grid).

I suspect that you may be right about using the MinimapProvider as a means of extracting locations.

Can you say anything about whether or not this will run on a live game?

[antonpup]

You would have to try it out in a local/practice match. What I know is that most/all data is available when spectating a match (you can see both teams and the game is delayed so there isn't much issue with cheating), but during the game, some information is not available.