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yes, i've run into this problem before.
you don't notice it right away because normally you're outputting to the console via dprints or whatever, so they are done incrementally, but if you try access multiple ftos() at the same time, the pointer to the string will only be the last one you called.

you can force the player's viewpoint to snap to player.angle by setting player.fixangle to 1 as well.

ew no, that's not what i was saying: make some kind of extra copy in memory of the game state so you take your snapshot of the game; "save" to another memory, essentially, and then slowly write it out over time. i'm just thinking it's probably way faster to duplicate everything in a save f...

this is probably dumb, but, could you make some kind of extra copy in memory of the game state and then just slowly write out a save file while letting the engine continue to run?
so the save might take 500ms, but the game doesn't have to wait while it does it.

welllll... maybe i'm just a dork, but it seems like the 3/4 to 1 second save time is pretty long for how little there is. oblivion saves 4-5mb files in about that long. mostly, i'm thinking about it from an autosave viewpoint where even the smallest hitch is both a dead giveaway that a save took pla...

are you talking about when you're standing on a train, you move with it? that's handled completely by the engine.

hey guys... i don't really know what's going on here re: saving (i don't know much about the technical aspects of the engine except where they relate to qc or mapping directly), but i thought i'd just ask: why does saving in quake take so long? the files are tiny, usually half a megabyte. there can'...

iirc, deathmatch 2 is commented in a spot as 'old silly rules'.
look in items.qc in the places which handle item respawning.

sure. you'll need to do a little bit more house keeping with a sprite, since it will be an actual entity, instead of a tempentity that is removed by the engine. essentially, you just put in the standard spawning stuff in the place of the particle call: entity guy; guy = spawn(); setmodel(guy, "...

thanks for letting me know about FTE_GFX_QUAKE3SHADERS. didn't know about that.

ok, well, thanks for confirming that.
what i've been doing so far is just testing for DP_ENT_TRAILEFFECTNUM which, afaik, only DP supports. of course, if anyone adds that in, but not external textures, it'll cause problems. :\

i suppose i'm just missing something obvious. :P basically, i want to detect if the engine running a progs.dat has support for the q3 style shaders (via .shader files). i think only DP can do this anyway, so a way to detect if the engine is specifically darkplaces would work too. is this possible? i...

ceriux and nahuel have the right idea i think. if you're still interested in .rc and .cfg files... .rc is the only config file hard coded by the engine to run. if you open up pak0.pak, there's a quake.rc file in there and if you open that, you can see it is actually running the exec config.cfg and e...

1. self is foo remember, a removed entity's pointer is still locked to the entity for ~2 seconds, afterwhich the entity pointer is freed for use with another entity. if you spawned another entity 3 seconds later, it would probably take this edict slot, and self (if it was called later on) would be t...

in nahuel's post, he just means in the worlspawn entity, add a new key with the name "fog" and the value "0.2 0.2 0.2 0.25" (no quotes).