CounterStrikeSharp plugin for CS2 retake servers — makes selected players visually highlighted (glow) through walls and smokes for all other players.

Antibait is a server-side admin tool for CS2 retake servers. It lets admins put specific players in a permanent glow visible through walls and smokes by everyone on the server, or automatically highlight the last surviving player of each team when they are the final one alive.

The plugin is built on top of CounterStrikeSharp and is fully compatible with CS2Retake, CS2-SimpleAdmin, and the breakerandopendoor orchestration plugin commonly found on retake servers.

• Permanent glow — toggle a persistent through-wall highlight on any player; survives round changes
• Last-alive auto-glow — automatically highlights a watched Counter-Terrorist player when they are the sole surviving CT of the round
• Team-colored highlights — Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists get distinct colors; fully configurable
• CS2-SimpleAdmin integration — commands appear automatically in the SimpleAdmin menu if the plugin is loaded
• Crash-safe — entity creation is guarded against the breakerandopendoor entity-scan window at round start
• Lightweight — no database, no external dependencies beyond the CSS API

1. Download the latest release ZIP from the Releases page.
2. Extract and copy the addons/ folder into your CS2 server root, merging it with the existing addons/ directory:

game/csgo/addons/counterstrikesharp/plugins/Antibait/
    Antibait.dll
    lang/
        en.json
        fr.json

3. Restart the server or run css_plugins load Antibait in the server console.
4. A configuration file will be created automatically on first load at:

game/csgo/addons/counterstrikesharp/configs/plugins/Antibait/Antibait.json

The config file is generated automatically with the following defaults:

{
  "AdminPermission": "@css/cheats",

  "PermanentGlow_R": 255,
  "PermanentGlow_G": 50,
  "PermanentGlow_B": 50,

  "LastAlive_T_R": 255,
  "LastAlive_T_G": 130,
  "LastAlive_T_B": 0,

  "ConfigVersion": 1
}

All commands require the AdminPermission flag defined in the config (default: @css/cheats).

Toggles a permanent through-wall glow on the target player. The glow persists across round changes until toggled off.

!antibait_glow PlayerName
css_antibait_glow PlayerName

• <name> — partial or full player name (case-insensitive). If multiple players match, the command lists the matches and asks for a more specific query.
• Running the command again on the same player removes the glow.

Adds or removes a specific player from the last-CT-alive watch list.

!antibait_last PlayerName
css_antibait_last PlayerName

• <name> — partial or full player name (case-insensitive).
• When active, the player glows only when they are the sole surviving Counter-Terrorist of the round.
• Running the command again on the same player removes them from the watch list.
• Multiple players can be watched simultaneously; whichever one is the last CT alive will glow.
• The watch list persists across round changes; the active highlight resets each round.
• If the watched player also has a permanent glow, the permanent color takes priority.

When both permanent and last-CT-alive conditions apply to the same player, permanent always wins:

flowchart TD
    A[Player has glow condition] --> B{Permanent glow set?}
    B -->|Yes| C["Red (255, 50, 50)\nadmin-defined, persists across rounds"]
    B -->|No| D{Sole surviving\nwatched CT?}
    D -->|Yes| E["Orange (255, 130, 0)\nauto, round-scoped"]
    D -->|No| F[No glow]

If CS2-SimpleAdmin is loaded on the server, Antibait registers itself in the admin menu automatically (no additional configuration needed). An Antibait category will appear with:

• Permanent Glow on Player — player picker to toggle permanent glow
• Toggle Last CT Alive Glow — toggle the last-CT-alive feature

The integration is purely optional; the plugin works standalone if SimpleAdmin is absent.

Tested and designed to run alongside:

CS2 does not expose a reliable per-player glow property via CSS. Instead, Antibait creates two prop_dynamic entities per highlighted player:

• ModelRelay — invisible entity (RenderMode = None) that follows the player pawn via FollowEntity
• GlowEnt — the actual glow entity (follows ModelRelay), with GlowType = 3 (through-wall) and GlowTeam = -1 (visible to all)

Network visibility of these entities is controlled per-viewer via the CheckTransmit hook, so each player sees only the glows they should see.

EventRoundStart fires during breakerandopendoor's entity-scan window (round_start extra-1 through extra-4). Creating CDynamicProp entities while entities are still in the engine's staging list causes a WriteEnterPVS: GetEntServerClass failed server crash. Antibait uses a _safeToCreate flag that is only set to true inside EventRoundFreezeEnd, which fires after all scans complete. All entity creation (round start, player spawn, last-CT-alive trigger) is gated on this flag.

git clone https://github.com/NeuTroNBZh/Antibait.git
cd Antibait
dotnet build -c Release

The compiled DLL and assets are output to:

addons/counterstrikesharp/plugins/Antibait/

This project is licensed under the MIT License.