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For generating zombies, there is the obvious first thing of making every monster just be converted into a zombie immediately, just have that entity point to the variety of zombie you would like it to be (or roll the dice and pick from one of a few zombie types).
Further to this, in each monster's ...

mh wrote:malloc (calloc actually)

What's the difference?

I think LordHavoc plays using gamepad sometimes. I know that Polarite (QuakeOne regular, runs a few servers in Europe) used to, not sure if he still does.

I also remember that tool. QExpo 2008, I believe. Sadly, I do not remember who it was either.

Exporting in .ent/.map format using FRIK_FILE would seem to be the way to go, if anyone ever finds it, finds the source, and feels like working on it.

True, but I'd argue that QuakeC is syntactically unique compared to those others, given its quirks. (No ints being the main one; the way functions are declared is slightly weird, but makes sense once you think about it)

Swift wrote:Wouldn't this make more sense if it were called 'mass' instead?

No.

The mass of an object does not change how fast it accelerates. There's a fairly fanmous experiment involving a tennis ball and a cricket ball that demonstrates this.

It could be feasible if it was using 16.16 fixed point numbers. Or more accurately, 15.16 signed fixed point numbers (so you get +/- 32768 ish). I have a feeling that the Doom engine does something along these lines...

Double posting for additional insight:

The Box-Muller transform (Wikipedia it) allows you to generate random normals by using two random floats (you will need to filter out random floats that == 1), but it requires:
# either sin() or cos()
# ln() of a number between 0 and 1
# sqrt() (note that this ...

Binomial approximations of normal distributions are ok upto a point.

Note that random() gives a float by default (you need to floor() or ceil() it, most usually the latter, to get an int).

Also note that the most obvious way of combining random numbers:

damage = (random() + random() + random ...

Nice. Didn't think to use a sine table. That long mad elseif chain can be made more efficient (for matters of runaway loops). But other than that, good stuff.

Edit:
Mathlib sin uses radians, not degrees. sin (90) degrees == sin (M_PI / 2) radians.
Actually, the other way around. The sin() builtin ...

daemonicky wrote:Gee, it even has goto .

There's nothing wrong with goto. It's a useful tool to have, when it's needed. But it's not a hammer. Nor should it be used by one...

Let's say you have 3 or 4 platforms suspended in mid-air. Can they be made to bob via QuakeC? (func_platform_bobbing or whatever)

"Q3-style" item bobbing (like in ezQuake or JoeQuake, cl_bobbing 1) uses the sin function to alternate through values between 0 and 1 with a circular kind of momentum ...

What are the best existing released maps to use as a stress test?
Marcher Fortress, Masque of the Red Death, pretty much anything by Tronyn in his Drake-enhanced revival. As for demos (wasn't asked for here, but listing anyway), bigass1 is the classic benchmark demo, but also consider qdq_1949 ...

PRYDON_CLIENTCURSOR (as documented in dpextensions.qc) is another way of doing this.

From what I know, somewhat similar. UnrealScript has both touch and untouch , QuakeC lacks the latter. UnrealScript also has ways of allowing you to say "do foo for 2 seconds, then do bar" without having to have a seperate functions for foo and bar and using think/nextthink to change between them ...