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TUTORIAL 6 - Bouncing Rockets
by AssKicka

This tutorial will show you how to make rockets bounce off walls by using a console command to avtivate/deactivate the rocket bounce feature.

1. ADD A NEW ENTITY FLAG

Open g_local.h and add the line in red after line 32 :
// gentity->flags
#define	FL_GODMODE		0x00000010
#define	FL_NOTARGET		0x00000020
#define	FL_TEAMSLAVE		0x00000400	// not the first on the team
#define FL_NO_KNOCKBACK		0x00000800
#define FL_DROPPED_ITEM		0x00001000
#define FL_NO_BOTS		0x00002000	// spawn point not for bot use
#define FL_NO_HUMANS		0x00004000	// spawn point just for bots
#define FL_ROCKETBOUNCE		0x00008000
If you're used to working with 'flags' or 'bits' then this stuff should look familiar to you. If it looks like Greek, a bit of an explanation about 'hexadecimal numbers' and 'bitwise operators' might be useful... have a read of our article on flags'n'stuff.

2. IMPLEMENT A 'RBOUNCE' COMMAND

Now Open g_cmds.c and add the lines in red after line 1022 :
/*
=================
Cmd_RBounce_f
=================
*/
void Cmd_RBounce_f( gentity_t *ent ) {

	char *msg; // message to player

	ent->flags ^= FL_ROCKETBOUNCE;

	if (!(ent->flags & FL_ROCKETBOUNCE))
		msg = "Rocket Bounce OFF\n";
	else
		msg = "Rocket Bounce ON\n";
	trap_SendServerCommand( ent-g_entities, va("print \"%s\"", msg));
}
This allows a player to 'toggle' bouncing rockets on and off.

Now goto line 1155 and add the lines in red :

	else if (Q_stricmp (cmd, "setviewpos") == 0)
	Cmd_SetViewpos_f( ent );
	else if (Q_stricmp (cmd, "rbounce") == 0)
	Cmd_RBounce_f( ent );
This part simply catches a command that a player enters on the console (type "\rbounce", for example) and calls the function Cmd_RBounce_f(). We like to think of this part of code as our 'hook' to the outside world :)

3. MODIFY THE ROCKET PHYSICS

	bolt = G_Spawn();
	bolt->classname = "rocket";
	if (self->flags & FL_ROCKETBOUNCE)
		bolt->nextthink = level.time + 2500;
	else
		bolt->nextthink = level.time + 10000;
	bolt->think = G_ExplodeMissile;
	bolt->s.eType = ET_MISSILE;
	bolt->r.svFlags = SVF_USE_CURRENT_ORIGIN;
	bolt->s.weapon = WP_ROCKET_LAUNCHER;
	if (self->flags & FL_ROCKETBOUNCE)
		bolt->s.eFlags = EF_BOUNCE;
	bolt->r.ownerNum = self->s.number;
The if (self->flags & FL_ROCKETBOUNCE) bit tests if the particular client has FL_ROCKETBOUNCE turned on. If so, the rocket will explode after 2.5 seconds (instead of 10). The magic part is adding EF_BOUNCE to the rocket's eFlags (which I suppose stands for 'effects flags'... browse bg_public.h line 195 for a list of all the EF_ flags).

Re-Build your game.qvm file and enjoy !

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