InsideQC Forums

Sorry to bump an old thread. I've just been playing around with this (awesome stuff, by the way), and I've had a little success with the mouse in Darkplaces so thought I'd share it.

You can use setcursormode() to stop mouse input from moving the view in DP. This changes how getmousepos() works ...

(disclaimer: I've been wrong so many times before, so we can assume that the trend continues with this post)

With regard to the ".th_" references, I don't think they're hard coded, pretty sure it's all in QC. My understanding is that the ".th_" part is just a naming convention. In defs.qc you have ...

I'll probably embarrass myself asking for something that already exists (and you should probably be able to do it in csqc, although I think having it in the engine would make the qc a lot simpler)

I'd like to be able to offset where the crosshair and the prydoncursor get drawn. e.g. say I wanted to ...

Oh, yeah. I did get that wrong. Oops, sorry for the misdirection.

v_right + v_forward would point 45 degrees to the right of where the player is facing, not 90. And that's absolutely right about the need for trigonometry. Oh, dopey me ;-)

Going verbose about this, just cos I find it useful when searching the forum to find detailed answers to other people's questions (i.e. for future readers, not just the OP):

the vector "spread" is used in FireBullets:

direction = dir + crandom()*spread_x*v_right + crandom()*spread_y*v_up;

So ...

Hmmmn, I've been working at a very slow pace for a long time on stuff that would fit into this theme, but I'd be breaking the rules to use that code to enter. That said, it's probably stuff that the experienced modders here would be able to knock out in the time frame ;-)

Also there's only really ...

Sorry for the long post.

I'm tinkering around with a lightweight RTS style mod, and I'm wondering what approach to take with the player's perspective. I'm pretty naive about unintended consequences of the decisions I'm starting to make, so I was hoping I might be able to get some feedback.

I'm ...

I have thought about this too. A while back I was digging around through the frikbot code to get my head around it. I'm pretty newb at all this, but here's what threw me (and I'm probably totally wrong about this):

To me it looks like the frikbot is emulating a client, so instead of having the ...

Oh, excellent. Thanks for the help everyone.

silly question, but I'm stupid and tired, my brain isn't working. Is there a sin() function in qc? I'm pretty inept at programming generally, so I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for.

I want to spawn monsters at random points on a circle on the x/y plane around an entity. They can't ...

I've been thinking about aim assistance for console controllers lately. I remember reading an interview about some upcoming shooter (maybe Brink) and they were saying they treated a potential target like a gravity well for the crosshair.

I imagine this means keeping the crosshair locked in the ...

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I'm a complete noob and managed to compile Dark Places with MinGW (I found it easier to do that than use MSVC). I followed the instructions here:
http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2351

Nice ideas, thanks for that. What I've wound up doing is a fair bit simpler than your suggestions on account of my inexperience and the inherent lack of time. I just sent something in, I think it's mildly fun. Somebody may get some mild amusement out of my code, too.

I've been bodging together a depth-charge mod and map for this, but it's not turning out particularly fun.

Thanks, that got me started.

I copied how some of the prydon_cursor stuff works. I have no idea if this is a bad way to do things.

In the event any n00bs like me want to know what I did (the order of these steps probably hinders the explanation):

- in client.h I set up a vec3_t in the usercmd_s ...