Adjusting nails to new r_viewmodeloffset

[JasonX]

I'm using Baker's r_viewmodeloffset and i'm trying to adjust the nails based on that. Is it possible? Or is the tutorial bugged?

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[Baker]

I'm using Baker's r_viewmodeloffset and i'm trying to adjust the nails based on that. Is it possible? Or is the tutorial bugged?

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r_viewmodeloffset adjusts the viewmodel's appearance on the client.

The server doesn't know anything about client preference settings (i.e., the server does not know your viewsize, fov, your mouse sensitivity, the value of a view variable like r_viewmodeloffset, etc.)

And the origin and angles of nails being fired lives in the QuakeC source of progs.dat and is hardcoded:

Using the Rocket as an example ....

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/*
================
W_FireRocket
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*/
void() W_FireRocket =
{
    local    entity missile, mpuff;
   
    self.currentammo = self.ammo_rockets = self.ammo_rockets - 1;
   
    sound (self, CHAN_WEAPON, "weapons/sgun1.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);

    self.punchangle_x = -2;

    missile = spawn ();
    missile.owner = self;
    missile.movetype = MOVETYPE_FLYMISSILE;
    missile.solid = SOLID_BBOX;
    missile.classname = "missile";
       
// set missile speed   

    makevectors (self.v_angle);
    missile.velocity = aim(self, 1000);
    missile.velocity = missile.velocity * 1000;
    missile.angles = vectoangles(missile.velocity);
   
    missile.touch = T_MissileTouch;
   
// set missile duration
    missile.nextthink = time + 5;
    missile.think = SUB_Remove;

    setmodel (missile, "progs/missile.mdl");
    setsize (missile, '0 0 0', '0 0 0');       
    setorigin (missile, self.origin + v_forward*8 + '0 0 16');
};

Notice the set origin ^^^ [this sets the initial position of the rocket] is the player location (self.origin) plus a little bit of forward padding [i.e, the start origin is directly in front of the player]. [QuakeC isn't really my strong suit, but nevertheless ...].

You'd have to play with the setorigin a bit to make a rocket fire from the side a little, but you'd also have to play with the angles a bit too doing a destination calculation so it achieved a somewhat similar intended fire angle.

You'd be better off asking the QuakeC guys how to achieve that, I'm sure there has to be angle calc code for some side mounted weapon somewhere. I'm not too familiar with the QuakeC math functions versus, say, the engine C functions.