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Topic: The very first tutorial to be released
on Q3A mods |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
 posted
01-15-2000 05:44 AM     
Just
kidding. try this one out for a funny effect.
open in the game project the g_client.c file. Go to the bodysink
section. The code look like this
quote:
=============
BodySink
After sitting around for five seconds, fall into the ground and
dissapear
=============
*/
void BodySink( gentity_t *ent
) {
if ( level.time - ent->timestamp > 6500 ) {
// the
body ques are never actually freed, they are just
unlinked
trap_UnlinkEntity( ent );
ent->physicsObject =
qfalse;
return;
}
ent->nextthink = level.time +
100;
ent->s.pos.trBase[2] -= 1;
}
Change the
quote:
( level.time - ent->timestamp > 6500 )
to
quote:
( level.time - ent->timestamp > 65000 )
(just add a 0) and
quote:
ent->s.pos.trBase[2] -= 1;
to (cgange the - to a +)
quote:
ent->s.pos.trBase[2] += 1;
This will give you the following effect: 
When you kill
someone, instead of sinking into the ground it flies up in the air.
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[This message has been edited by UN-Peacekeeper (edited
01-15-2000).] |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 05:48 AM
Hey, watta
you know. I think this IS the very first tutorial on mod making for
quake3arena!
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UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 07:31 AM
Check this
one out. Doesn't everyone likes/hates tha stupid rocketlauncher
because it does splash damage but is's so damn slow? Try this. Open
the file bg_pmove.c goto line 1551. Change the value of addtime from
800 to 50. Now you'll be firing rockets like it's a machinegun!
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hubnter-killer
Summoner
Posts: 215
Registered: Dec 1999 |
 posted
01-15-2000 01:21 PM
That's cool
but is there any way to make the bodies stay there and pile up like
a graveyard? Or would that hog too much memory? |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 01:39 PM
You mean on
the ground? That is possible. The line that sais
quote:
( level.time - ent->timestamp > 6500 )
is the line that tells q3a how long the bodies will
stay. 6500 means 5 seconds. eg. if you want them to stay for 50
seconds you'd type 65000. But I think it consumes memory so I
wouldn't let the bodies stay there too long.
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Coriolis
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1464
Registered: Dec 1999 |
posted
01-15-2000 01:39 PM
I don't know
about memory, but can you imagine trying to render 100 corpses in
one scene? That would be an awful slowdown of the
game. |
Coriolis
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1464
Registered: Dec 1999 |
posted
01-15-2000 01:40 PM
And I'm
betting that the time unit in that statement is in milliseconds,
like all other times in q3, so that bodies really stick around for
6.5 seconds*. If the comment says otherwise, then they just changed
the value but didn't change the comment.
*edit: accidentally used ms here too...
[This message has been edited by Coriolis (edited
01-15-2000).] |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 01:58 PM
I think
you're right, didn't even notice that the values didn't match (6500
= 5 sec)
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Terrax
Quaker
Posts: 21
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 02:01 PM
So peace
keeper. When are you going to start a tutorial site...
Kind of like www.planetquake.com/qdevels/ only for quake3. It
would be a great place to give a ordered list of all your little
modifications, and it would really help stupid newbies like me out.
I really think you should consider it, unless you already know of a
site like this. |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 02:06 PM
.... ....
....well actually i'm a newbie myself. This is the first time ever
that I had a look to a game's sourcecode. I've been programming VB
for some time now, but thats nothing compared to C. So I'm trying to
hook up with C(++). What I showed you was N.O.T.H.I.N.G. It was just
a matter of changing the value of a single variable, altough you get
some pretty funny effects. Its easy to get effects like this. Just
look for interesting names, try to find an explenation of it, change
the value and see what happens.
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R1CH
Caveman
Posts: 6
Registered: Dec 1999 |
 posted
01-15-2000 02:19 PM
Any idea how
to get the cgamex86.dll working yet? I've shoved it in every place
imaginable and Q3 refuses to use it. I modified the gibbing code for
more gibs/blood/bounciness etc but it doesn't work
: |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 02:35 PM
Have you
tried the quake3 root directory (eg. c:\quake3\), thats the only
place they work for me.
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Coriolis
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1464
Registered: Dec 1999 |
posted
01-15-2000 03:33 PM
I had to put
the dll in the quake3 root directory (e:\Program Files\Quake III
Arena for me), and I also had to set sv_pure to 0 to get my
cgamex86.dll to work. After I did that, I had no
problems. |
Terrax
Quaker
Posts: 21
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 04:27 PM
Damnit
Peace... I thought u actually knew something! Well, we need to track
down someone who knows what they are doing to throw together some
real tutorials for us... like homing rockets or
somethin' |
Nusco
Quaker
Posts: 12
Registered: Dec 1999 |
posted
01-15-2000 04:59 PM
If you want
to leave dead bodies around for a long time, you should probably
make a longer body que - as it is, it's only 8 slots long (if I
remember correctly). Just look for an array called BODYQUE (or
BODY_QUE, or something similar) and make it
longer. |
DivideByZero
Caveman
Posts: 8
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-15-2000 05:34 PM
Peacekeeper
is right. VB is nothing like VC++. It can emulate some of the
functionality, like classes and structures. You can even feign
inheritance and polymorphism, but it is NOT the same as VC++. I've
done a little bit of coding in c, C++ and Java, but I'm new to VC++
(especially wit h the Q3 code.)
Anyway - anyone get the vm tools working? I keep on getting a
"bad command or file name" error when I run game.bat.
I use a batch file to set up my VC++ environment (thanks Publius)
with the following lines:
SET
PATH=%PATH%;c:\QUAKEI~1\BIN_NT
"C:\Program
Files\micros~3\vc98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT"
I have Q3 installed in c:\quale iii arena\.
Anyone have ideas? A step-by-step would be really helpful.
Thanks.
DivideByZero
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Orion CI
Soldier
Posts: 61
Registered: Dec 1999 |
 posted
01-15-2000 07:54 PM
hey
peacekeeper, did you try putting the dlls in "maygame/dlls" you said
you tried "mygame/dll" but not the above. =]
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Coriolis
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1464
Registered: Dec 1999 |
posted
01-15-2000 08:01 PM
mygame/dlls
doesn't work either, at least for my cgame mod. |
UN-Peacekeeper
Insane Quaker
Posts: 1982
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-16-2000 03:31 AM
Nope, don't
work.
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-=Jazz=-
Commander
Posts: 83
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-16-2000 03:48 AM
To get the
vm compiler working... make sure your bin_nt dir is in the path...
as well as the visual c stuff.
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PfhorSlayer
Caveman
Posts: 4
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-16-2000 08:17 PM
has the mac
source been released? are there any pages on this kinda stuff...
Damn I AM a newbie... |
-=Jazz=-
Commander
Posts: 83
Registered: Jan 2000 |
posted
01-17-2000 03:22 AM
The source
code is actually the same, as it runs in a virtual machine (like
Java), but you'll have to use Virtual PC or something like that to
actually compile to VM... VPC will be needed to extract the SDK too.
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