New guy alert! Custom key values?

[Willem]

This is probably obvious but here goes...

I'm getting my feet wet in QuakeC lately and I'm wondering if it's possible to read custom key/values from the entity? Like if I define a custom combo:

"mykey" "123"

Can I get that value out somehow when I'm in QuakeC? What is the function call I would use?

[Spike]

.float mykey;

then read mykey to find out what the mapper stored in it.
At load time the engine looks for the field with that name and stores its value into it. Its just a regular field.

Don't create too many special fields for every single different sort of entity because the field takes memory for every single entity (in dp thats up to 4*32767=128kb of memory per new field). Also don't make the names too long because qbsp has entity segment limits too (depends on the compiler).

[Willem]

Ahh OK, that makes sense then. Thanks!