CSQC ReadEntity

[Urre]

There's a WriteEntity builtin in ssqc, but no ReadEntity in csqc. Does anyone know how I'm supposed to read WriteEntity calls in CSQC_Ent_Update, or is that perhaps just not possible?

[Spike]

ssqc doesn't expose entity numbers to the ssqc, thus it requires a writeentity.
csqc doesn't have access to the ssqc entities, thus a readentity will not always work (if its not known, you would get world, and you would not be able to re-read it).

Entities are sent as shorts, thus to read an entity, call ReadShort. it will return the entity number on the server. This can be matched to the entnum field from entities read from the server.
The ommision is intentional. Any logical behaviour would likely be too unreliable (a ReadEntityNumber builtin would make sense at least, but it would be identical to ReadShort).

[Urre]

Ah, well that works for me!

[Urre]

[Spike]

[Urre]

/me curses the grace period

Why does it exist?

[frag.machine]

From what I remember to avoid problems with interpolation I guess.