Annoying problem

[Orion]

I played Quake with no mods active a few minutes ago, and sometimes an annoying bug happens: when I gib a monster, his head is still "alive". His head "runs" over the floor and can shoot or use melee attacks. As the head is non-solid it is unkillable. And I almost always die because of these heads that don't stop following and shooting me!

I know how to fix that, but what exactly causes this?

[Spike]

by no mods...


which engine were you using?...

[Orion]

Fitzquake

[Error]

well there's your problem right there

*cough*
















...no really...

[Spike]

I do not recall ever seeing such a bug. But then I've also not used fitzquake much.
Try updating?

[Spirit]

That does not seem normal. Have you tried a clean installation (no savegames, no config etc)?
Fitzquake is a great engine.

[Orion]

Man that is VERY RARE to happen. But happens. And also I'm not sure if I definitely fixed the problem. I just put a self.think = SUB_Null; on ThrowHead(). But at least it didn't happen anymore...

Maybe this happens because for exaple a monster is gibbed EXACTLY when it starts to run one of his animation frames.. EXACTLY when it executes one of his animation no matter what. And then, the self.nextthink = -1; on ThrowHead may by owerwriten by that one happened in the frame. That's why it's rare to happen though.

[frag.machine]

Are you really sure you're running vanilla QuakeC ? I already found this bizarre bug when messing around with new monsters (regardless the engine), and suddenly every time I blasted a grunt his head pursuited me trying to avenge the rest of his gibbed body... Don't recall how I fixed that though.

[redrum]

I have the same problem on my server!

How do you fix???

[metlslime]

I'm flattered to be given credit for what sounds like an awesome mod!

[xaGe]

LMAO... Ahh priceLESS!

I'm flattered to be given credit for what sounds like an awesome mod!

[r00k]

zombies like 100 comming at u robotron style and they turn in to floating biting skulls, when shot!!

[negke]

In this sense, inserting the tarbaby code in ThrowHead() sounds like a good idea.

[jim]

Sounds great

[Orion]

@redrum just put in ThrowHead() (self.think = SUB_Null;) after self.nextthink = -1;