Hello Tony, Friday, August 29, 2003, 9:39:11 PM, you wrote:
TC> Hi List, TC> First off, I'd just like to say Hi, I'm new to modding Half-Life, but I'm a fairly experienced TC> programmer (something you're probably glad to hear for a change). TC> Anyway, I'm working on a lame excuse for a mod, which will be sort of a clone of the old arcade game TC> "Smash TV". I'm working on setting up a fixed viewpoint from an entity I placed in my map -- TC> info_smash_cam. It basically points down and looks down from above. I've got my CSmashCam which I TC> gleaned info from the intermission camera entity, and I seem to have it properly TC> LINK_ENTITY_TO_CLASS'd... I own this game for C64! Hehehe.. cool idea. With the same technique, maybe you can make a "Alone In The Dark" game with bits of arcade. Or maybe a "Diablo" alike RPG. Anyway the original idea is not "SmashTV" but "Robotron". ( SmashTV have a funny "The Long Run" or "Blade Runer" style, but "Robotron" have a cool Kraftwerk style) I am also newbie. Anyway.. can you cycle all entitys and pick these with classname "info_smash_cam"?.. or pick the nearest with these classname? I dont know how half-life mods work yet. Maybe you can code the info_smash_cam entity spawn function to build a linked list, and make you search info_smash_cam to get the head of this list and cycle to get the better option (nearest).. this can be slighty fastest (and anyway you dont need to remove links on the fly). But he!.. I am newbie too and don't know how half-life work, yet. Do you know good docs to start learning HL? Do you know published info about the network/demo files? Maybe you can point me to doc's, better than full websites. I am overloaded of info, I dont know where to start. posdta: my english is crap _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
