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ceriux wrote:try adding a bot and let him kill you. maybe the kill command is whats messing it?

Actually I'm killing myself with rockets.

Actually, when the player hits the button to respawn, his dead body is replaced with a corpse from the bodyque. It's this bodyque corpse that I've made gibbable (haven't gotten around to making the player himself gibbable while he dies, before respawning). By all counts it should work, but when I ...

Sorry for the double-post. I've tested the experimental method I brought up earlier, and it works wonders! I've posted a new tutorial here .

There's a couple of bugs though that are bedeviling me. It's late and I'm tired, so I'll have to get back to them later, but I'd love for feedback and ...

Here is a newer, much simpler version of the gibbable corpses tutorial I wrote long ago. These corpses can be killed with any weapon, but they let the player move right through them without inhibiting him at all. This works across engines, including vanilla Quake (tested in GLQuake and its variants ...

Found it! Thanks for suggesting the way back machine (web.archive.org).

Now that I'm reading it though, it's a horrible tutorial. One of the first steps simply has you paste several pages of code into the bottom of world.qc, with no explanation of what the code actually does. Durrrr... That was ...

Error: Thanks for the offer, but I'd better pass. As busy as my life has been, having a website would be another burden that I'd inevitably abandon. :) This weekend, for example, I'll probably be working for free to meet a deadline that was supposed to be 3 weeks away. yay!

leileilol: Thanks for ...

I thought your cat inherited everything?

Anyway, it's not anywhere in my archive of the site. Are you sure it was even there?

Predictably, he squandered his inheritance living a life of booze and women. We found him passed out in a drainage ditch 30 miles from home, remembering nothing but ...

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to find an old tutorial I wrote for gibbable corpses. It was distinct from other such tutorials because it used the Ace of Nails gibbable corpses that were non-solid but shootable, without needing any engine support (it worked fine in standard dos quake).

The tutorial died ...

Error: That sounds pretty cool!

Well, I think the request was to make the game easier on easy skill. The hard/nightmare skills can be kept as-is or increased, but the easy skill may need adjustment.

At least, that's how I interpreted the conversation.

Sorry, I got involved in other things. I need to get back to this.

The main impediment I'm facing now is player weapon animations. It's easy enough to have lightning and nail attacks handled by the weapon itself so the player can continue firing rapid-fire weapons. However, how to handle animating ...

Looks about right.

No problem.


dist = vlen(enemy.origin - self.origin);


vlen (vector length) will give you the length of any vector. Directional vectors (used for aiming) have a length of 1 by definition. Vector length can also be used to get the speed when used on a velocity.

Subtracting your bot's position ...

Yes, that's about how I imagined the transition animation. And it should be exceptionally easy to do that sort of animation because it mostly only involves scaling.

Have fun, man!

5 whole minutes to take a leak? That's either really slow for taking a wiz (how much beer did you drink?!), or really fast for passing a kidney stone. ;)

Storing the orb inside the player is a good, easy way to do it. It has some costs, but avoids model swapping. As frag.machine says, those verts ...