additional TE_* types in defs.c ??

[dayfive]

[FrikaC]

[dayfive]

[Spike]

there's a certain ammount that you can do yourself with imaginative use of the particle builtin. Alternativly, you can do some pretty amazing things with sprites if you're cunning enough (see some of cheepy's stuff). The downsides of these methods is that it either looks pants, or totally annihiliates any posability of internet play.

FTE and DarkPlaces both support customisable particle systems (though I admit I don't know much about DP's).
These particle systems allow you to customise existing effects so they suit your mod better. Alternativly they may (at least FTE does) allow you to register your own particle effect types, or just override specific uses of the particle builtin. This would allow you to make someone else support/maintain the engine for you, which is a _HUGE_ time saver.

If you wish to go for an existing engine with a lot of custom effects already, telejano probably has the most. And 90% are so increadibly specific to something that you'll never find a use for them. Darkplaces has several additional particle effects also. FTE had a customisable particle system earlier in it's development, so there are less additional specific tempentities (having said that, most of DP's are supported, they just don't have effects defined yet).
Plus it might help to use an engine with skyboxes.


Anyway, now that I've failed to get you to use an engine that someone else is responsible for, CL_ParseTEnt in cl_tent.c would be a good place to start looking. As well as in protocol.h for the defs (though that's less interesting).

[Entar]

Pertaining to what Spike said, yes, the dpextensions are exactly what you're looking for (I think?). For scriptable particle systems, Vr2 has one too.

[Sajt]

Darkplaces has scriptable particles too Not sure how flexible it is, but it dang sure covers the basics

[xaGe]

..damn got excited for a second there... Heard Megaman and automatically my mind jumped to thoughts of sidescrolling sprite goodness! ..I do very much love your idea! I just always saw it in quake as a side-scroller kind of like TAoV, but maybe with sprites instead of models...

[RenegadeC]

[dayfive]

[dayfive]

[dayfive]

a few things i was wondering about,

1) how might you make the disappearing/reappearing brushes like in targetQ?? those were intrinsic to both the megaman x and original series!

2) how might it be possible to change the player skin based on what weapon is being carried, the idea is of course to have a different color associated with each respective weapon

i'd prefer not to use scriptable particle generation as i'm aiming for cross platform compatibility as well as assuming the player will not be using any particular engine - compatibility with the original quake engine (DOS) from id software is a must! if the particle generation can be done in QuakeC however, this would be preferred.

i take it you can't add any additional temporary entities by only using the progs.dat? even so i bet with a bit of clever manipulation of the existing types, it should be possible

[RenegadeC]

The Target Quake source code makes me vomit, I had it but I don't anymore. It's unreadable, messy, poorly organized, and I'm surprised it even worked.

If you want a 2D side scroller, I highly recommend working off of "2DCam" a simple mod I released during an old QExpo; someone here possibly has the source code to it since I lost the mod on Circa1984; if you can't find it, you can base it off my 2D Side-Scroller CastleVania mod (probably a better option anyways). Just ask for it and I'll give you it.

[Entar]

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[RenegadeC]