Blue head in FitzQuake

[Chrispy]

Hey guys, have you ever encountered this problem before?

When I try run my mod in FitzQuake, and shoot a soldier, I get a blue head instead of a regular head... This does not happen in regular WinQuake and DarkPlaces when running my own mod.



(Sorry for the console being in the way... but you can see the head anyway)

I've pinpointed the problem to my progs.dat... but what is the problem?

I've tried using both the FitzQuake executable, as well as compiling my own FitzQuake. If I run FitzQuake without my mod on the target line, there's no blue heads.

Thanks in advance.

All my mod is, is a couple of editted .mdls, and some QC edits where you get pretty much more gore and what not.

[Sajt]

Just a guess.. do you have painskins in your mod? When gibbed I think a monster entity actually turns into the head instead of spawning a new entity for it. Maybe .skin is still set to 1, and maybe FitzQuake shows blue for invalid skins.

[Chrispy]

As a matter of fact I do... removing the pain skin code has fixed it, but I'd really like to keep that feature in FitzQuake...

I'll try look at what you said about the monster entity turning into a head.

* Edit: Fixed! Thanks man!

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void() army_die =
{
   self.skin = 0;
// check for gib
   if (self.health < -20) // -35 default
   {
      sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "player/udeath.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
      ThrowHead ("progs/h_guard.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
      //return;
      // return effectively skips the else statement
   }
   else {
   // else if our weapon doesn't do so much damage, throw less gibs
      ThrowHead ("progs/h_guard.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
   }
// regular death
   sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "soldier/death1.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
   if (random() < 0.5)
      army_die1 ();
   else
      army_cdie1 ();
};

Below army_die you'll see the "self.skin = 0" which has fixed it. When the soldier dies you don't see his actual body (you just see gibs), so a self.skin = 0 works just fine.

Feel free to suggest better code though, even though this seems to be fixed... for now.

[Nahuel]

As a matter of fact I do... removing the pain skin code has fixed it, but I'd really like to keep that feature in FitzQuake...

I'll try look at what you said about the monster entity turning into a head.

* Edit: Fixed! Thanks man!

Code: Select all

void() army_die =
{
   self.skin = 0;
// check for gib
   if (self.health < -20) // -35 default
   {
      sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "player/udeath.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
      ThrowHead ("progs/h_guard.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
      //return;
      // return effectively skips the else statement
   }
   else {
   // else if our weapon doesn't do so much damage, throw less gibs
      ThrowHead ("progs/h_guard.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
      ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
   }
// regular death
   sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "soldier/death1.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
   if (random() < 0.5)
      army_die1 ();
   else
      army_cdie1 ();
};

Below army_die you'll see the "self.skin = 0" which has fixed it. When the soldier dies you don't see his actual body (you just see gibs), so a self.skin = 0 works just fine.

Feel free to suggest better code though, even though this seems to be fixed... for now.

You only need to duplicate the skin of the model h_guard.mdl






If you use QME is very easy (right button in the skin)


Enjoy!

[Nahuel]

Sorry, my solution (duplicating skins) works fine, but is some stupid. You do not need duplicate skins.
Sorry, I never test my pain skin code in fitzquake.

the correct code is ;


void() army_die =
{
// check for gib
if (self.health < -35)
{
sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "player/udeath.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
ThrowHead ("progs/h_guard.mdl", self.health);
ThrowGib ("progs/gib1.mdl", self.health);
ThrowGib ("progs/gib2.mdl", self.health);
ThrowGib ("progs/gib3.mdl", self.health);
return;
}
// regular death
sound (self, CHAN_VOICE, "soldier/death1.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
if (random() < 0.5)
{
army_die1 ();
self.skin=1;
}
else
{
army_cdie1 ();
self.skin=1;
}
};

[leileilol]

i'd rather fix the engine to make it use the skin 0 for invalid skins

[Sajt]

Actually it seems to me like a good feature to point out invalid skin index.

Anyway, you should set self.skin=0 only when the monster is gibbed. Otherwise set self.skin=1 as in Nahuel's code, so dead guards always have the pain skin.

[Chrispy]

i'd rather fix the engine to make it use the skin 0 for invalid skins

Yeah I'm with you on that one.

Thanks everybody. Right now self.skin = 0 is doing the trick, since you won't see the soldier's body when he dies (just gibs/limbs).