Death timer?

[redrum]

Guys once again I am in a bind.
I'm trying to get a timer started when the player dies and stops when the player respawns and grabs his first item.

In Clientobituary() I tried:

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targ.deathtimer = time + 3;    //(I want my actions to take place 3 seconds after death)

if (targ.deathtimer == time)
if (targ.netname == "redrum")
   stuffcmd(targ, "say nice shot!\n");

Stopping the timer would be easy, so I don't need help with that part.
Any suggestions?

[Willem]

I'm new to QuakeC but would:

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if (targ.deathtimer >= time)

Be any more reliable? Checking for == with floats is often bad news in C based languages.

[Orion]

ClientObituary() is only called after a player is killed... if you check for that in there it won't work properly.

Remove the time check but keep this line and add another after it:

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targ.deathtimer = time + 3;
targ.dontloop = 0;


and put this new one in PlayerPreThink():

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if (self.deathtimer < time)
if (damage_attacker != self)
if (!self.dontloop)
{
         self.dontloop = 1;
         stuffcmd (self, "say nice shot!\n");
}


And at the very top of the file, add this line:

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.float dontloop;

And it should work.