QC Coders - Question to you!

[Phenom]

As far as I know you can make an impulse for anything. You could fill up the entire keyboard with impulses. So, my answer would be - you could have an 8 armed monster and have a button for each hand.

Gypsy

^^^ ^^^

How about a charged jump?

Lets say I want my model(in-game) to jump 1 unit high, I tap the jump button and my model jumps 1 unit high.... but if I wanted him to jump higher I press and hold the jump button resulting in a spring bring pulled back effect... the longer I hold jump, the higher I jump... Possible? I hope so!

[MadGypsy]

Nextthink that checks if the button is pressed and increments or decrements velocity accordingly up to a predefined number of thinks would be my guess.

[Phenom]

^Check your PM plz

[R00k]

Nextthink that checks if the button is pressed and increments or decrements velocity accordingly up to a predefined number of thinks would be my guess.

.nextthink is usually used for animations, though in it's rudest from is just a splice in time to do something when the entity think func is called. You can create an ent ( ent = spawn() ) then set the nexthink to time + x and it will call the .think func then.

[MadGypsy]

little stuff like this I redefined in my head long ago according to languages I know. think/nextthink combo (in my world) is just a timer. No different than:

var nextthink = 3000; //milliseconds
var jsthink = setTimeout("think()",nextthink);

function think()
{
clearTimeout(jsthink); //automatic in Quake upon "thinking"
//code - which may include restarting the timer
}

psssh - I just invented the beginnings of QJS.

[gnounc]

Heres a combo system I made myself a year or two ago.
Its a bit dusty, but it should be pretty easy to figure out.

I'm also including a weapons charging code I made.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1776436/Q1forums.zip


You also might ask RennyC as he's done this kind of thing before.

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