Hi ppl, I'm working on a mod for the Return To Castle Wolfenstein game and I really need some help/advise. I imported a new game character into the game that is considerably taller then the standard players and I need to raise the camera(?) view that a player is using when they are that new character to the new height. I've been combing over the source code but I can't find anything but a few references to DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT. Since RTCW is so simular to Q3 maybe someone can point me in the right direction or file and I'll hopefully take it from there?
Many Thanks!!!
Much Help Needed
This is a Quake 1 site....
but maybe find the definition of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT (which I imagine is 22), add a TALL_VIEWHEIGHT or something with a bigger number, and go through all references of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT in the code, using TALL_VIEWHEIGHT instead if you're the tall person? (Up to you how to figure out when you're the tall person though... )
but maybe find the definition of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT (which I imagine is 22), add a TALL_VIEWHEIGHT or something with a bigger number, and go through all references of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT in the code, using TALL_VIEWHEIGHT instead if you're the tall person? (Up to you how to figure out when you're the tall person though... )
F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe.
True, but since RTCW is a stepchild of Q3 I thought I'd give it a try.Sajt wrote:This is a Quake 1 site....
Plus you good folks here understand the code and talk about it!
I'll try that.. thanks, Sajt.Sajt wrote: but maybe find the definition of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT (which I imagine is 22), add a TALL_VIEWHEIGHT or something with a bigger number, and go through all references of DEFAULT_VIEWHEIGHT in the code, using TALL_VIEWHEIGHT instead if you're the tall person? (Up to you how to figure out when you're the tall person though... )
Hi Spike, I got the new model into the game but it's about twice the height of the average player..(which is what I want)Spike wrote:Are you sure you need to change the camera and not the player size instead?
So when you're that new player you should be looking down on the other players, instead of eye-to-eye like it is now.
I went into third-person-view and used debug_bullets to check out some things and the bounding box, camera, and bullets are still looking the same as if it was still one of the regular soldiers.
I'm not a coder or scripter but I've been reading the source file for about 2 weeks now and its starting to make 'some' sense to me.
I made a few small changes to test my ability, compiled it, and it does work.
But here's a question to confirm my newness to coding...
Is the Bounding Box and Hit Box the same thing?
Ooh, I didn't know RTCW had hitboxes!
Raelyn, you're also going to want to increase the bbox size. If anywhere it says something like this in the Q3 code: (I haven't seen the Q3/RTCW code really so I don't even know if they use the same Vector macros as Quake did)
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 32);
Use this instead for the tall guy
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 72);
Or maybe they have it like this
vec3_t mins = {-16, -16, -24};
vec3_t maxs = {16, 16, 32};
Whatever it looks like, just take the 32 and change it to a bigger number
Raelyn, you're also going to want to increase the bbox size. If anywhere it says something like this in the Q3 code: (I haven't seen the Q3/RTCW code really so I don't even know if they use the same Vector macros as Quake did)
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 32);
Use this instead for the tall guy
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 72);
Or maybe they have it like this
vec3_t mins = {-16, -16, -24};
vec3_t maxs = {16, 16, 32};
Whatever it looks like, just take the 32 and change it to a bigger number
F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe.
Ahhhh.. you must be right. I made a character run against a wall in DevMode to test this and sure enough the box I'm seeing is just touching the wall.Supa wrote:I'm not very knowledgeable in Q3 gamecode, but I'm pretty sure the bounding box is for collisions against the world and the hitboxes are for collisions against traces.
The hit box must be tighter against the character or I would be able to score hits alot better then I do.
Thanks for answering that, Supa!
Sajt wrote:Ooh, I didn't know RTCW had hitboxes!
Raelyn, you're also going to want to increase the bbox size. If anywhere it says something like this in the Q3 code: (I haven't seen the Q3/RTCW code really so I don't even know if they use the same Vector macros as Quake did)
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 32);
Use this instead for the tall guy
VectorSet(mins, -16, -16, -24);
VectorSet(maxs, 16, 16, 72);
Or maybe they have it like this
vec3_t mins = {-16, -16, -24};
vec3_t maxs = {16, 16, 32};
Whatever it looks like, just take the 32 and change it to a bigger number
I know where this is! They use the vec3_t mins description.I'll try this out now. Many Many thanks, Sajt!
I'll let you guys know how it works out.