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Supa Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 122 |

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject: |

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So... I'm dusting this discussion off and am requesting for a generic tutorial that shows how to stick something to a player.

There really isn't that much to it. You just need to create your flag/arrow/etc as a helper entity with the stuck-to player as its' owner and depending on what engine you're targetting you could attach it in one of two ways.
If it *has* to work on every NQ engine, you'll need to have the helper entity think every server frame, updating its' origin and angles to match the .owner's angles every time. Keep in mind that this will produce choppier updates in MP as the server framerate will be running at sys_ticrate (usually 20fps by default in most NQ servers), SP runs a physics frame with every rendered frame iirc. Related to that, you'd probably want to cap origin/angles updates to 10~20/second and make sure you don't have _too_ many attached entities at any one time, this method has a capability of producing waaay too much network traffic.
If you're using DP, all you need to do just read up on DP_GFX_QUAKE3MODELTAGS here. You don't actually need the attachee to have any tags in order to attach something, calling setattachment without providing a tag name will just attach the entity to the attachee's origin.
I think QW is supposed to have an entity field for this, but since I don't have much gamecode experience in QW I'll leave it to someone who does. :)

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ceriux Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 968 Location: Florida, USA |

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject: |

how about a reload with animations? im sure iv seen a thread for it multiple times. a step by step im sure would be helpful. _________________ QuakeDB - Quake ModDB Group

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Error Inside3D Staff Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 558 Location: VA, USA

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject: Centerprint Tutorial kind of thing! |

This will make a onscreen centerprint for important events that is always there:

Code:
/* Centerprint Messenger By: Error In Defs.qc you need to add this following at the bottom of the file:
void(entity client, string s, string s, string s, string s, string s, string s, string s) centerprint7 = #73;
.string message1, message2, message3, message4, message5, message6, message7;
*/
/*
messenger_init ();
sets all messages to blank with a few spaces
to make the messages not move down when there
are too many messages
Put the Following Code in PutClientInServer ();
located in client.qc:
messenger_init ();
*/
void() messenger_init =
{
self.message1 = " \n";
self.message2 = " \n";
self.message3 = " \n";
self.message4 = " \n";
self.message5 = " \n";
self.message6 = " \n";
self.message7 = " \n";
};
/*
add_message (entity slf, string new_mess);
Moves all the messages up one when a new message
is added to the queue.
Anytime you want to add a message to the queue
just call something like so:
add_message (self, "You gained 15 health\n");
*/
void(entity slf, string new_mess) add_message =
{
slf.message1 = slf.message2;
slf.message2 = slf.message3;
slf.message3 = slf.message4;
slf.message4 = slf.message5;
slf.message5 = slf.message6;
slf.message6 = slf.message7;
slf.message7 = new_mess;
};
/*
messenger_main ();
This is what makes your messages appear. Special
Note... since this will be called every frame, it
will overwrite all other centerprints.
Call this from PlayerPostThink in client.qc:
messenger_main ();
*/
void() messenger_main =
{
centerprint7 (self, self.message1, self.message2, self.message3, self.message4, self.message5, self.message6, self.message7);
};

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ceriux Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 968 Location: Florida, USA |

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:50 pm Post subject: |

i could see that code being used for a lot of things =) _________________ QuakeDB - Quake ModDB Group

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Error Inside3D Staff Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 558 Location: VA, USA

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: |

indeed, I made one that used timers to get rid of messages too. maybe I'll upgrade it soon. _________________ Inside3D : Knowledge Is Power Darkplaces Documentation Wiki

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lahore123 Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 1 |

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: |

Have you upgraded it. please share with us. Thanks _________________ הפצת ניוזלטר יעוץ עסקי

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