Getting the value of current fog (Darkplaces)

[Alex]

Hey guys, hopefully someone can help me out here.

In short, I'm messing with the AI range function to vary with the level of fog intensity present in a given map. Lots of fog = less sight range. I could set this map by map, but I've also made a neat function where fog intensity varies/pulses within a map (i.e. blizzard white out effect, transient fog).

What I need to do is...
1. "Get" the value of fog.
2. Isolate only the intensity portion into a float (I don't care about red, green, blue, and all of the other values associated with "fog").

Any suggestions? Can this be done?

I've been messing around with DP builtin #448 cvar_string but no luck.

Thanks,
Alex

[Spike]

fog is a command. it is not a cvar. it cannot be got.
it is also clientside, not serverside.

[Cobalt]

Unless you code a seperate QC float for the fog before you pass it to the server console via QC, yea what Spike says.

Otherwise if you floated the last known fog value , it would be a string, then all you need to do is stof (string to float) and either do a localcmd if its single player, or stuffcmd to each playerslot that is active with a player. Its frowned on to stuffcmd in multiplayer, but it can be done and not use alot of resources depending on the engine being used, resources available and hardware power etc.

[Alex]

Ah, thanks guys, that helped me figure it out.

I actually do have a qc float for the fog intensity which I then ftos into a stuffcmd (this is for single player at the moment, so maybe it should be localcmd, I get fuzzy about the whole server/client distinction) so that I can create the varying fog effect in the first place. In short I think I was already set up for what I wanted without knowing it, though admittedly this is probably a hacky/sloppy way of doing things....

Thanks again,
Alex