from the problems we had with Erads with regarding models from what I can
tell the server uses the model.mdl for all its' calcs and unless ya tell it
otherwise the client uses the same model (this played merry hell when we was
using oversized hulls for the large robots as the hit boxes was all out)
you dont need to precache all the models for that switch using the
SET_MODEL() stuff you have below as it's a client side thing and doesnt seam
to need it (well, we dont have anything other than model.mdl and robo.mdl
being cached server side and we can still use the standard HL model skins
(zombie etc) and they aint cached anywhere, we was even using robo.mdl
without precaching it pre-hitbox fix)
Anyways, as far as I can tell this is the code setup we have :
CBasePlayer::Spawn(..)
{
...
// note - player model setup here - change it
if (m_iPlayerClass == CLASS_ERAD)
{
SET_MODEL(ENT(pev), "models/player/robo/robo.mdl");
}
else
{
SET_MODEL(ENT(pev), "models/player.mdl");
}
g_ulModelIndexPlayer = pev->modelindex;
pev->sequence = LookupActivity( ACT_IDLE );
...
}
and called from the gamerules playerspawn() function we have the
EquipPlayer() fucntion which sets the model depending on which class you are
:
For Erads :
g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( pPlayer->entindex(),
g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( pPlayer->edict() ), "model", "robo" );
For Humans (depending on class):
g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( pPlayer->entindex(),
g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( pPlayer->edict() ), "model", "merc" );
g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( pPlayer->entindex(),
g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( pPlayer->edict() ), "model", "zombie" );
g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( pPlayer->entindex(),
g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( pPlayer->edict() ), "model", "hgrunt" );
g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( pPlayer->entindex(),
g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( pPlayer->edict() ), "model", "hgrunt" );
admitaly I never tried this with either devloper 1 or devloper 0 in place
(unless -dev does it ;), however this all shows the correct models when the
player is pushed into third person mode, so if you have basicaly the same
I'd guess you've goofed something somewhere
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Flor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:18 AM
Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Third person player / Developer mode
> But doesn't that assume you set the model yourself with the "SET_MODEL"
> command, and precache it?
>
> What I'm trying to avoid is precaching ALL of our player models, which
> would mean:
> 1) Only server-defined player models could be used. This isn't an issue
> because I restrict the models client-side anyway through model
> encryption.
> 2) It would take up 40+Mb of memory for models that it never use.
>
> Right now my code does:
>
> char *szModel = "paladin"; // For instance...
> SET_MODEL( ENT(pev), "models/player.mdl" );
> g_engfuncs.pfnSetClientKeyValue( entindex(),
> g_engfuncs.pfnGetInfoKeyBuffer( edict() ), "model", szModel );
>
> ...but what does that have to do with "developer 0"?
>
> For the record, I set a breakpoint inside the client-side rendering code
> and, sure enough, "model/player.mdl" is the entity being rendered. Is
> this some safety feature in Half-Life?
>
> Tnx & Rgds...
> David Flor
> Lead Programmer, "The Opera" - http://opera.redeemedsoft.com/
>
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