[DarkPlaces] QC drawing graphics onto the screen?

[Nash]

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to draw some graphics onto the screen during gameplay using QuakeC?

I've perused all the built-in functions of QuakeC and scanned dpextensions.qc but I can't seem to find anything that would help me do this.

What I intend to achieve is along the lines of a "current objectives" panel similar to Quake 2, and maybe an in-game inventory screen thingy.

I have made custom graphics for the windows, consoles and stuff using Photoshop, but I can't seem to find a way to draw them in-game using QuakeC.

Do I have to resort to modifying DP's source to achieve this?

[Sajt]

That would be a job for Client-Side QuakeC.


... Unfortunately, nobody knows how to use it. Or if it even exists.

[Nash]

Looks like I'll just have to modify the source to do this. :(

[xaGe]

..And if it did exist a tutorial on how to use it would be great...

That would be a job for Client-Side QuakeC.


... Unfortunately, nobody knows how to use it. Or if it even exists.

[leileilol]

what happened to tei's showlmp :S

[Nash]

I guess this mod has it hard-coded then?

[GiffE]

I guess this mod has it hard-coded then?

Chris uses CSQC

[Nash]

So why this is Client-Side QuakeC so secretive, so mysterious? Is there a good reason why no one really wants to talk about it in particular?

[xaGe]

CSQC is an abbreviation for Client-Side QuakeC... Which has very little if no documentation and apparently only a handful of people in the world understand how to use with regards to Darkplaces & FTEQW...

I guess this mod has it hard-coded then?

Chris uses CSQC

[Nash]

After some searching, I found out that Nexuiz has CSQC code in it. So off I went to download the game, and copied over the CSQC sources into my mod's folder.

I'm going to try figure it out, but before that, I need to find out how to get it to even compile. Here is what frikqcc 2.6 spits out:

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warning: LINK:0:System defs do match internal crcs.


Anyone knows what's going on?

[Sajt]

Well that's just a warning. It means it won't work as server-side QC progs.dat, which is quite the point, so you can ignore it.

For the record I use FTEQCC. If you can't get something to compile in FrikQCC, there's a chance it uses some FTEQCC only features. (see here for the latest build of FTEQCC)

[Nash]

Thanks. I used to have trouble deciding which compiler to use, but I went with Frik's for some reason I can't remember. :?

(I think it was the lax error check/warnings... FTEQCC always produces tons of warnings even with the stock ID1 QC)

[leileilol]

fteqcc has issues with functions like trace_plane_normal though

[Nash]

Yeah I went back with FrikQCC because FTEQCC doesn't support arrays.

[Chris]

FTEQCC supports arrays just fine.

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 float NUMBER_OF_SLOTS = 12;
 .entity myslot[NUMBER_OF_SLOTS];      /* FTE compiler arrays, you must use fteqcc to compile this */




Then in a function...

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for(nCnt = 0; nCnt < NUMBER_OF_SLOTS; nCnt++)
   {

    self.(myslot[nCnt]) = spawn();
      self.(myslot[nCnt]).owner = self;
   }


stuff about FTEQCC arrays:

* they can only be declared globally, no
local entity army_array[50]; etc

* You cannot compare 2 arrays unless referenced as a pointer using an entity, in example:

Valid:

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local entity slot, slotb;

slot = self.(myslot[(self.activeslot - 1)]);

slotb = self.(myslot[(self.activeslot)]);

slot.power = slotb.power;


Invalid:

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self.(myslot[(self.activeslot - 1)]).power = self.(myslot[(self.activeslot)]).power;