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visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:01 pm
by ceriux
Visual Equipment mod release:
download
readme
mods mainly for coop and ffa use because the armor makes it to where you cannot see your custom colors.
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okay so iv been attempting to get visual gear/weapons into quake. essentially what i did was edit the original player model i split the head from the body and weapons. the only part of the players model that it is still tied to the original player ent is the head model.
i spawn a new ent (pbody) and give it , it's own model. i then give the ent a think and next think which points to my body_think function. the body_think function tells pbody, that its frames are the same as its parents frames. the parent being the player/owner of pbody.
here's the thing i join the game with chase_active on i see the body set its frames to the idle frames then it crashes DP.
iv been trying to get help on IRC with this for the past 3 days. but no one there seems to know whats wrong. id really appreciate it if anyone could please point out what iv done/doing wrong. ill post the code here and a link to a pastebin.
--- body(); is only called once in client connect. i don't spam it in playerprethink or playerpostthink.
http://pastebin.com/zjU7kC4E
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// visual attachment stuff (currently crashes)
void() body_think =
{
self.think = self.frame = self.parent.frame; // bodies frame is "parents" frame
self.nextthink = time + 0.1; // think every 0.1 ticks
};
void() body =
{
self.pbody = spawn (); // spawn the body
self.pbody.parent = self ; // the bodies owner is the player
setmodel (self.pbody, "progs/body.mdl"); // he will get the player body model
setattachment (self.pbody, self.pbody.parent, ""); // attach the body model to "parent"
self.pbody.think = body_think; // make the body think
self.pbody.nextthink = time + 0.1; // it thinks every 0.1 ticks
};
THE FIX:
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void() body_think =
{
self.frame = self.parent.frame; // bodies frame is "parents" frame
self.think = body_think;
self.nextthink = time + 0.01; // think every 0.01 ticks
};
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:15 pm
by frag.machine
I've made a multi part player model using MOVETYPE_FOLLOW instead of setattachment (
see earlier version). It's tricky to make the body react in a synchronous way, but feasible.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:31 pm
by ceriux
i started using movetype_follow. i was told by LH that its not as good as setattachment, so i changed my code to use it.
it syncs pretty well as far as i can tell.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:33 pm
by frag.machine
hrmm, I think it's about time to me to learn more about setattachment then.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:44 pm
by ceriux
the code above could be used for weapons as well as a body =) right now im still using the quake guy. =) also works in multipalyer =)
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:17 pm
by Cobalt
Sounds interesting , post a vid sample if u can.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:52 pm
by ceriux
sure as soon as i can. the current code posted above only draws the original body. but its easy enough to add in support for showing armors with a few lines (already added green armor.) id like to get some weapons added in before i make a video.
once i get all this added in, i might release the visual parts of my mod as a standalone so others can use it.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:10 pm
by drm_wayne
This is what i use to attach stuff to the player (weapons, legs etc...), works great in DQuake, Darkplaces but in FTEQW the legs are not really
synced xD
I use custom scratch qc so some stuff might look weird...
Legs ingame:
Legs QC:
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void() legs_update =
{
float chasecam;
chasecam = cvar("chase_active");
if (chasecam == 1)
setmodel (self, string_null);
else
setmodel (self, "progs/players/p_legs.md2");
if (self.owner.deadflag != DEAD_NO)
SUB_Remove();
if (self.owner.incam == TRUE) // Intermission, we dont need to see our legs here
SUB_Remove();
makevectors(self.owner.v_angle);
self.think = legs_update;
self.nextthink = time + 0.01;
self.angles_y = self.owner.angles_y;
self.origin = self.owner.origin + v_up*-20;
self.frame = self.owner.frame;
}
void() player_legs = //Called at PutClientInServer
{
local entity legs
makevectors(self.v_angle);
legs = spawn();
setmodel (legs, "progs/players/p_legs.md2");
legs.solid = #SOLID_NOT;
legs.movetype = #MOVETYPE_NOCLIP;
legs.owner = self;
legs.angles_y = self.angles_y;
legs.origin = self.origin;
legs.velocity = self.velocity;
legs.drawonlytoclient = self;
legs.frame = self.frame;
legs.think = legs_update;
legs.nextthink = time + 0.01;
}
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:38 pm
by frag.machine
float chasecam;
chasecam = cvar("chase_active");
if (chasecam == 1)
setmodel (self, string_null);
else
setmodel (self, "progs/players/p_legs.md2");
In DP there's a extension exactly to deal with this situation: IIRC is DP_VISIBLETOCLIENT. I'm using this and makes the code much simpler and elegant.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:54 pm
by Spike
fte defaults to prediction enabled.
cl_nopred to turn it off, or sv_nqplayerphysics to force it off for all clients (yay! authentic nq physics!).
you would see the same thing with DP and its cl_movement 1 setting.
setattachment works clientside so is meant to function properly regardless of prediction, instead of only when its disabled.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:09 pm
by drm_wayne
frag.machine wrote: float chasecam;
chasecam = cvar("chase_active");
if (chasecam == 1)
setmodel (self, string_null);
else
setmodel (self, "progs/players/p_legs.md2");
In DP there's a extension exactly to deal with this situation: IIRC is DP_VISIBLETOCLIENT. I'm using this and makes the code much simpler and elegant.
I know, the qc i posted above is mainly designed for my customized PSP Engine, i already added some DP features like drawonlytoclient and nodrawtoclient.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:59 pm
by frag.machine
Just a correction: the DP extension I was referring actually is DP_ENT_EXTERIORMODELTOCLIENT.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:28 pm
by ceriux
update, im still working on this. got all the armor coded in, but the weapons are crashing the game so i have to figure that out first.
edit: so there wasnt any problem with my code, some how one of the models became corrupt and thats fixed. which essentially means there are 2 things left to do. there's a bug with the exit level cam where you see the body still, and theres a bug with ring of invisibility where you have a body walking around with a floating pair of eyes (kinda funny looking). after that all is finished! then i can release.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:15 pm
by ceriux
sorry for double post, mod has been finished, ill add information to the top of post.
Re: visual equipment / setattachment / parent/child ents
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 6:44 pm
by Spirit
Hey, it would be great if you could add a readme to the archive. Check out some readmes from idgames2 as good examples:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/idgame ... nversions/ 
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