Other Auto-setting a title before a name for a specific faction

So, I got a quick question, as I'm not entirely sure how to do this. Basically, I'm making a military faction, and whenever someone creates a new character for it I want a title (Rct. for recruit) automatically added to the beginning of their name. I've been snooping through the framework, specifically cl_character.lua in the client folder of the libraries folder, and I found a part where it starts a datastream called "CreateCharacter" and gives the info given from the character creation process. I don't know how CW datastreams work, but I'm assuming if I can "hook" the datastream when it starts, I can just concatenate "Rct." onto the name with the passed info before the character creation process in the framework. I would hope there would be a way to do this with a schema file, but I guess I'm okay with editing the framework in a little way like this. Anyways, here's the section of the code where I found the datastream if you need more context:

Code:

function Clockwork.character:OpenNextCreationPanel()
    local activePanel = self:GetActivePanel();
    local nextPanel = self:GetNextCreationPanel();
    local panel = self:GetPanel();
    local info = self:GetCreationInfo();
   
    if (info.index > 0 and activePanel and activePanel.OnNext
    and activePanel:OnNext() == false) then
        return;
    end;
   
    if (!nextPanel) then
        Clockwork.plugin:Call(
            "PlayerAdjustCharacterCreationInfo", self:GetActivePanel(), info
        );
       
        Clockwork.datastream:Start("CreateCharacter", info);
    else
        info.index = nextPanel.index;
        panel:OpenPanel(nextPanel.vguiName, info);
    end;
end;

 

This is where plugins come into play. Make a plugin with an sv_hooks file and put this in it.

Code:

function PLUGIN:PlayerAdjustCharacterCreationInfo(player, info)
   if info.faction == FACTION_WHATEVER then
     local title = "Rct."

     info.name = ("%s %s"):format(title, info.name)
   end
end

 

Dude, you're a life saver! I didn't even know that a function like that exists. Beats having to do a bunch of crap with datastreams and modifying the framework. BTW, would this work with a schema instead by just replacing PLUGIN? I'm assuming so from what I know of clockwork

 

Yes. Anywhere you see Clockwork.plugin:Call it means that clockwork is about to do something, and you can interact with it in a plugin or schema. If you are making a schema, you can simply replace PLUGIN, yeah.

 

Unless I am retarded, you could look into the HL2RP combine core hooks too to get an idea of how to do things.