DP_QC_FINDCHAIN question

[frag.machine]

I was checking DarkPlaces built-ins library and found this useful alternative to the regular find(). But I was not able to understand two important details:

1) why findchain() and find() have two different signatures ? You cannot inform the start entity like in regular find();

2) from what I understand from DP source code, non-solid entities are always discarded. Regular find() does not ignore those. Is this correct ?

[FrikaC]

The start entity parameter for find is meant for iteration, since findchain chains the entities, you don't need to iterate in that way.

As for 2, I don't know what you mean, unless you're referring to findradius, which is a different animal.

[frag.machine]

The start entity parameter for find is meant for iteration, since findchain chains the entities, you don't need to iterate in that way.

Fair enough to me.

As for 2, I don't know what you mean, unless you're referring to findradius, which is a different animal.

Yeah, turns out I was looking the findradius implementation also and got confused. Guess I need to sleep more and code less.

[Sajt]

In darkplaces, findradius only returns SOLID_NOT entities if the cvar sv_gameplayfix_blowupfallenzombies is enabled. Quake never returned SOLID_NOT entities. Unfortunately in darkplaces, sv_gameplayfix_blowupfallenzombies defaults on, which is a major gameplay change from Quake.