How to get info from another specific player at any time?

In my mod, players will select a target and shoot at it instead of aiming and shooting. I need to be able to save what who/what this target is and be able to draw info about the target at anytime. What is the best way to go about this? I thought about saving the target as a whole copy but I think that would only save the data at that moment and would not update. I think ehandle might be the right way to go, but I don't know how those work at all really. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[z33ky]

I think the UserID would be a good way to go.
But to be honest, I don't know if that's the best one.

[Varsity]

CBasePlayer* m_pCurTarget = MyGetTargetFunc()

That stores a pointer to the entity. You can then use "->" (instead of ".") to access its components.

You could use an EHandle too, but that makes things a bit more complex without helping you in this situation.

[Tony Sergi]

ehandles are not complex varsity, and they're safe.

I've read about EHANDLES on the wiki site, but I'm still not entirely sure how to use them.

The way a target is selected is by the player "shooting" but if no target is selected it will attempt to select whatever is under the crosshair via a traceline. Would I then just do something like

EHANDLE pTarget = tr.m_pent; (once it is determined the object hit is another player ofcourse)

And to access stuff would just be pTarget->GetPositionFunction() and it would be able to access that player's current position so I can use it for other things?

[Tony Sergi]

Yeah, and you can cast the ehandle to an actual player class to access stuff other than just cbaseentity.

ie: ToSDKPlayer(m_Ehandle.Get())->SomePlayerOnlyFunction();

OK, great this helps a lot.