[DarkPlaces] QC drawing graphics onto the screen?

[Nash]

Well, all I wanted to do was create a custom HUD and draw some in-game menus for the player inventory.

I'll just attach the stuff to the player's view and make use of DP's EF_NOGUNBOB. This CSQC stuff is way too complicated for me.

[daemon]

CSQC isn't too difficult... it's just that the people who know how to use it don't know how to explain it in an orderly manner. (I probably don't either )

but having said that... where you want to start is in CSQC_UpdateView (hopefully you already have some kind of csqc codebase)

for starters, try messing around in this function by adding some lines after R_RenderScene();

for example:

drawstring('320 240 0', "this is a string", '10 10 0', '1 1 1', 1, 0);

or

drawpic('320 240 0', "image.tga", '32 32 0', '1 1 1', 1, 0);

[Nash]

(hopefully you already have some kind of csqc codebase)

No, I don't. The only one available to me, from Nexuiz, is heavily convoluted and not suitable for learning from.

Care to post a clean CSQC base for modders?

Also, I think half of the problem would be solved if someone would be kind enough to give ANY kind of explanation on the parameters for most of the important built-in functions for CSQC. Yes I realize the types are named clearly but it doesn't really tell much IMO.

[daemon]

trying to get ahold of Dresk to see if I can post what he gave me... not really sure yet if i need to get permission first or credit anyone

[daemon]

Here's the CSQC codebase that Dresk put together:
http://www.daemonforge.org/files/source/csqc-scratch.zip

[Nash]

Much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm just wondering though, why is this file so hidden? Had it not been for this forum thread, I don't think it would be possible to ever get a hold of that file, heck no one would even know it exists.

[daemon]

I don't think it did exist at all until somewhat recently.

[xaGe]

Sweet...

[Sajt]

I'm just looking at it, haven't tried it. In main.qc, the CSQC_Parse_TempEntity() function has a TE_GUNSHOT handler, but doesn't do anything - it just says '//do something cool with TE_GUNSHOT!' This looks like something that will crash unless you comment the TE_GUNSHOT case out, or add code to parse the 3 coords and do something with them. (Since bHandled is true unless the switch hits the default case).

[daemon]

You're right. I just tried it and it crashes. That whole lower section of Main.qc is actually not used because of line 50 "#ifdef USE_CSQC_OPTIONALFUNCTIONS", but if you comment that out it will crash when TE_GUNSHOT is called.

I've just commented out those example lines inside CSQC_Parse_TempEntity and reuploaded the zip.
http://www.daemonforge.org/files/source/csqc-scratch.zip

[Nash]

Thanks for the fix, daemon!