How to tell if the player is aiming straight up?

[DusterdooSmock]

How can i tell it the player is aiming straight up?
I've already tried this:

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if(pointcontents(self.origin) == CONTENT_SKY)

But, sadly it didn't work.

Is there another way to check if the player is aiming up?

Thanks.

[ceriux]

maybe use something like this instead?

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.vector      v_angle;      // view / targeting angle for players

[Spike]

check self.v_angle_z or something.
of course, it'll never be directly upwards, because you can't aim directly upwards in quake - you can normally only aim within 150 degrees.
and even in engines with such cheats enabled, there is always network precision issues, so really the best you can do is within 11 degrees of directly vertical or something clumsy like that.

[mh]

v_angle is the one. By default Quake limits the pitch angle to between 80 and -70 degrees, so 80 is straight up. Some engines have relaxed this limitation, so that pitch can go from 90 to -90, and other engines have cvar-ized it, so a player might want to set a cl_maxpitch of 45 for some reason.

The values of cl_maxpitch, cl_fullpitch, pq_fullpitch or whatever cannot be reliably accessed from QC as QC runs on the server and these cvars only exist on the client.

[DusterdooSmock]

check self.v_angle_z or something.
of course, it'll never be directly upwards, because you can't aim directly upwards in quake - you can normally only aim within 150 degrees.
and even in engines with such cheats enabled, there is always network precision issues, so really the best you can do is within 11 degrees of directly vertical or something clumsy like that.

It didn't work. I checked for self.v_angle_z to equal 90 and i tried 150, but maybe i was doing it wrong..

This is how i tested it:

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if(self.v_angle_z == 90)
      centerprint(self, "You're aiming at the ceiling dumbass!\n");

[mh]

Check my post above: 90 is not a valid value in most engines, 80 is the default max pitch. Also bear in mind what Spike said about network precision and 11 degrees or thereabouts. So you should really be checking for > 65 or so.

[DusterdooSmock]

No luck, I even checked to see if it was > 0 but even that didnt work.

[metlslime]

1. Positive values of pitch indicate looking downwards. Negative values are for looking up.

2. In default engines, -70 is the highest you can look upwards.

3. With 8-bit angles, the angle is sent over the network to the nearest multiple of 1.4 degrees, so add a margin of error of 1-2 degrees to be safe

4. angles are stored as pitch,yaw,roll i think, so _x is pitch, _y is yaw, and _z is roll -- you will have to check to confirm this.

[DusterdooSmock]

1. Positive values of pitch indicate looking downwards. Negative values are for looking up.

2. In default engines, -70 is the highest you can look upwards.

3. With 8-bit angles, the angle is sent over the network to the nearest multiple of 1.4 degrees, so add a margin of error of 1-2 degrees to be safe

4. angles are stored as pitch,yaw,roll i think, so _x is pitch, _y is yaw, and _z is roll -- you will have to check to confirm this.

OK, i got it to recognize the angles..now i just have to do some adjusting.

Thanks guys.