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The code in my immediate above post (ds, dt, extents, etc ...) is the code in RecursiveLightPoint in the Quake engine where it checks a polygon collision after the plane match is confirmed
It does NOT do a proper polygon collision check though, it only checks that the point is inside the lightmap ...

That piece of code figures out the texture coordinate of a point on a polygon.

What's that got to do with collisions?

I wanna say something helpful, but I don't know what you're trying to do.

Baker wrote:Another boring thread ...

I dunno why you said that.

If you wanna say stuff, then say stuff, and let other people decide if it's interesting or not.

reckless wrote: Replaced a number of strlen(somestring) == 0 to somestring[0] == 0 for speed.

Did you really get any speed improvement from that?

Just admit you did it for programming aesthetics

You can't make a padded texture tile properly -- it's either use the NPOT extension, or chop up your polygon into pieces which are the same size as the texture (which is pretty painful to code).

Yeah, at first I merely saw darkplaces and fitzquake had upped MAX_DATAGRAM (renamed in darkplaces) up to 32768 or 65535, but later I found the code in SV_SendClientDatagram which limits the size to 1400 for non-local clients.

Many thanks Spike, that was really helpful.

P.S. I'm gonna try stuffing tile update messages in the reliable datagram, and increasing MAX_DATAGRAM (which is still 1024 in this antiquated codebase).

I'm making a 2D game based on the Quake engine, and I need to send 2D map data (tile numbers) from the server to the client, since the maps will be randomly generated on the server.

What's a good way to do this?

At the moment I have it sending tile data in a similar way it sends visible entities ...

The "fix" in this tutorial has been shown to be bogus, and hence this thread should be renamed and moved out of the tutorials section.

Yep, well worth a watch.

Is it impossible to start a timer when the map starts and keep checking it to inject events at specific time (like a scripted game - the player walk in an area map and, after 2 min, a monsters horde spawns at his back or whatever)

You can think of every entity in the map as having a built-in ...

Try adding "_farplanedist" "512" (or whatever value) to the worldspawn entity.

(This just based on looking at the q3map2 source code, I dunno if it actually works)

P.S. "fogclip" and "distancecull" are equivalent to "_farplanedist", but I guess "_farplanedist" is best since it starts with an ...

(2) is fairly straighforward, the frustum is just 4-6 planes (depends if you count near and far), and you get the distance from a point to a plane by a simple equation which I forget now (something like (p - a) * n where p is a point on the plane, a is the coordinate, * is dotproduct, and n is unit ...

@chip: game loading time.

Baker wrote:because it has to look through every entry for every pak file

Fixing that with a hash table or std::map would be trivial, no?

Check:
if (self.items & wep)
{
// do something
}

Remove:
self.items = self.items - (self.items & wep)

where 'wep' is IT_SHOTGUN etc...