To Saturn: Six degrees of freedom in Quake C

[IcarusV]

What it says on the tin, currently looking around is controlled by player movement, rather than normal mouse movement, lookstrafe allows for mouselook.

Controls are:
forward/backward pitches
strafe yaws
up/down rolls
+button3 assigns yaw movement to roll movement
jump pushes forward

CVARs:
lspeed - look speed
ldecay - angular velocity decay
drag - velocity decay

Everything important should be in car.qc, altdefs.qc is defs.qc but I wanted a seperate file for changes.

Attached is a compiled progs.dat

https://github.com/IcarusV/tosaturn/tree/master

*Edit*
Also, some prototype wall walking.
https://github.com/IcarusV/dimensionaldoom

[Adam]

Interesting,
I was discussing this very feature just the other day.
So this gives you control like in Descent?



Did you make this for a mod/game that you are developing?

Re: your user name, have you played the excellent Icarus.1?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLmwWEG4hCg[/ame]

[talisa]

wasnt this already done in quake?

im pretty sure i remember seeing a video of someone who had also made a mod to give quake 6DOF controls


EDIT: oh, i just found the thread i meant http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...of-quake1.html

[Mindf!3ldzX]

What it says on the tin, currently looking around is controlled by player movement, rather than normal mouse movement, lookstrafe allows for mouselook.

Controls are:
forward/backward pitches
strafe yaws
up/down rolls
+button3 assigns yaw movement to roll movement
jump pushes forward

CVARs:
lspeed - look speed
ldecay - angular velocity decay
drag - velocity decay

Everything important should be in car.qc, altdefs.qc is defs.qc but I wanted a seperate file for changes.

Attached is a compiled progs.dat

https://github.com/IcarusV/tosaturn/tree/master

It would help if you had some look at me content. Screenshots are nice, but video would be 10 folder better imo.

Is this in the realm of Descent like Adam mentioned?

[IcarusV]

I would have recorded video, but I'm running Linux and haven't found a screen recording program that wanted to work for me, screenshots didn't seem too terribly necessary, as they would just be Quake at odd angles.
The purpose of this was to be a QC framework for anything that might involve 6DOF movement, I might get actual mouse control working in the future, so I just threw it in unfinished works. I was planning to make some racing and wall walking mods with this, but I would like to try to integrate this into FTE before going much further, as the QC version only updates angles every 1/30th of a second, if I'm correct.
I did see that Hypersonic did it in Fitzquake, I was going to make a thread today asking about where I'd put something like this in the engine, I've been wandering through the source with some luck, but a guide would make it much easier. If anyone has something to post in that vein, it would be appreciated, otherwise, I guess I'll make a thread later.
And to Adam, the name's actually a Deus Ex reference; Icarus.1, does look neat, though, I'll give it a go.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I would have recorded video, but I'm running Linux and haven't found a screen recording program that wanted to work for me, screenshots didn't seem too terribly necessary, as they would just be Quake at odd angles.
The purpose of this was to be a QC framework for anything that might involve 6DOF movement, I might get actual mouse control working in the future, so I just threw it in unfinished works. I was planning to make some racing and wall walking mods with this, but I would like to try to integrate this into FTE before going much further, as the QC version only updates angles every 1/30th of a second, if I'm correct.
I did see that Hypersonic did it in Fitzquake, I was going to make a thread today asking about where I'd put something like this in the engine, I've been wandering through the source with some luck, but a guide would make it much easier. If anyone has something to post in that vein, it would be appreciated, otherwise, I guess I'll make a thread later.
And to Adam, the name's actually a Deus Ex reference; Icarus.1, does look neat, though, I'll give it a go.

the odd angles has me wondering. what are the chances of this facilitating "Matrix" wall running ?

[IcarusV]

the odd angles has me wondering. what are the chances of this facilitating "Matrix" wall running ?

Very good, seemingly. I actually have some prototype code for wallwalking.
https://github.com/IcarusV/dimensionaldoom
For that, lspeed 1 and keyboard movement works better than mouse control, vertical movement yaws rather than rolls here, and x/y movement moves the player. Pitching isn't possible in this code, but I could probably fix that when I get this working with proper mouse control.
This traces 3 lines downward from the player, finds the cross product of two of the sides of the triangle formed by the trace_endpos's, and adds the cross product of that and the v_up of the player to the player's rotational axis.
Have some maps as well, though only the source, the server doesn't want to take the BSP's due to size.

[Ebisu]

Since you want to incorporate this into the engine, you should ask Spike (if not only because he's typically around it seems, he also wrote the damned sourceport you are trying to incorporate this into.) Keep on looking into this because 6DOF in engine would be pretty rad.

[Spike]

fte already has a '6dof' command/cheat (along the same lines as the 'fly' cheat).
it still has instant-aiming though, which might not be what you want with largeish spacecraft.
you can activate it in qc via self.movetype=30
+rollright / +rollleft to rotate the camera.

q1bsps will always be weird, in that you cannot ever rotate entity bboxes. for q3bsp you may wish to use self.geomtype=GEOMTYPE_CAPSULE; combined with all 3 axis of the mins+maxs being equal in length, this can give spherical collisions against the world.

[IcarusV]

fte already has a '6dof' command/cheat (along the same lines as the 'fly' cheat).
it still has instant-aiming though, which might not be what you want with largeish spacecraft.
you can activate it in qc via self.movetype=30
+rollright / +rollleft to rotate the camera.

q1bsps will always be weird, in that you cannot ever rotate entity bboxes. for q3bsp you may wish to use self.geomtype=GEOMTYPE_CAPSULE; combined with all 3 axis of the mins+maxs being equal in length, this can give spherical collisions against the world.

Very neat, thanks. I'll look into that movetype in the source to see if I can implement some sort of velocity based interface in the Quake C.

[ezzetabi]

Does not work in quakespasm, I get the "Host_Error: progs.dat system vars have been modified, progdefs.h is out of date" error.