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Thanks for the clip-the switching the 'self' around makes sense now.

So it would be impossible to save the states of more than 16 things between saves/levels? Also, where does it manipulate those globals (which QC file)?

So how does the engine know which quake C variables are supposed to be persistent between levels? For example, it saves my ammo, but not random custom variables. Is it the same mechanism that save files use, or a different one?

Look around in weapons.qc-the logic isn't too hard to follow. The amount of damage a pellet for the shotgun and supershotgun is set in the same place, because they use the same 'fire bullets' function. But you can make your own version of that function that does a different amount of damage, or add ...

Let's say I wanted to show my current, say, ammo_nails in a CSQC hud. Where in the normal QC would I put the addstat?

Let's say I wanted to make a gun that spawned monsters. Would I just spawn a new entity, just like spawning a shot entity, then call the 'monster_bla' function for it? Where are those functions, and what is the syntax for calling them in that context?

Working through http://www.inside3d.com/showtutorial.php?id=245 . This tutorial is very cool, but leaves the reader to guess about what they should do with some of the files, and I can't get it to compile. Has anyone gotten this to work? If so, what file did they put void DrawHealth() { local string...

I'm sorry. Having looked into it more, yeah, you can't mess with the hud with normal QC.

Oh, so I suppose it would be more convenient to just dike out the small hud ammo display altogether-(and possibly replace it with a slot-based ammo display). Where in the QC source is that, by the way?

(Edit - I spelled dike wrong)

Is there a workaround so that we can have an arbitrary number of weapons? My plan was to test all of the weapon functions I could make before re-writing the weapon switching code. The end goal was to implement a weapon switching/shooting system more like BattleField or Halo, where you swap weapons r...

In tutorial 60, (http://www.inside3d.com/showtutorial.php?id=60), it claims that weapon IDs don't need to be powers of two. It seems like one would not do that kind of thing if they didn't need to, so is this... true?[/code][/i]

The way precaches work seems to be very peculiar when you're working out of an actual directory rather then a .pak. Try, for example, adding a folder into the "sounds" directory with a name like "aaa"-when you play, the sounds will be all mixed up. Though I think I've added preca...

Phenom wrote:I'm guessing they must have recently included admin approval for registration.

I'm currently waiting for my approval to attempt MDL support in Blender!

Thanks for the guide!

The link to the forum thread isn't working, would someone (kindly) post a link to "pak2.zip", and documentation?