Shell hull model?

[talisa]

@seven
yeah ive did that myself already with those engine cvars
i totally love blood and decals and such staying forever. and even in huge maps i dont get any less performance from it at all

have those myself to like this:
cl_decals_time "10000"
cl_decals_max "131072"

and i personally dont get any less performance from them

[gdiddy62]

Huh, I missed your message Seven. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look at SMC code and play around a bit

[ezzetabi]

You can also check how I did it in the IQ reprise thread. It is not perfect as it lacks sound and it ignores player yaw, but it can be a start.

[Seven]

Hello ezzetabi,

You need to sync their angles to the players angles.

Lets say you call your entity "shellcasing":

makevectors (self.angles);
shellcasing.angles = self.v_angle;
shellcasing.angles_x = shellcasing.angles_x * -1; // old Quake bug ;-)

And do not forget to take the players view-offset into account.
Otherwise the casings will never be spawned at the correct position when aiming upwards/downwards. Look at the SMC nail-position-correction lines and use it for the shells as well. Should look a little something like this:

ejectpos = self.origin + self.view_ofs + v_forward * 10 + v_right * 2 + v_up * -8;
setorigin (shellcasing, ejectpos);

Good luck,
Seven

[ezzetabi]

Thanks for the heads up with ejectpos, in fact I was setting it as self.origin....