-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Make sure you reset it to USE_OBB_COLLISION_BOUNDS on death, seems to cause me some problems otherwise.
On 6/17/06, LDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Thanks Matt! That does the trick beautifully. > > Of course since we are both writing server plugins, we don't have access > to > CollisionProp()->SetSurroundingBoundsType() > > It's working though. Just takes more work to change the surrounding bounds > type. > > Grant > (L. Duke) > > > > On 6/15/06, Matt Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A better way to do this is to increase the size of the surrounding box > > for the player. You will want to call this in your player spawn > > function: > > > > CollisionProp()->SetSurroundingBoundsType( USE_HITBOXES ); > > > > The collision property will then update the absbox whenever the entity's > > angles, position or animation marks the collision as dirty. Depending on > > your mod, you may have to mark the collision bounds dirty on the client > > yourself, when you know the angles or origin of your client entity have > > changed. > > > > You can use "ent_absbox" on a player to see their server side absbox and > > "cl_ent_absbox" to see the client version. > > > > With this box surrounding the player, bullet tracelines should hit > > hitboxes that are outside of the movement bounding box. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Boone > > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 6:54 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [hlcoders] TraceRay not hitting player's head > > > > The regular trace will exclude a player as a target if the trace doesn't > > collide with the bounding box. > > > > It is possible to do an additional check on eligible players and force a > > trace against their hitboxes with enginetrace->ClipRayToEntity. That's > > per target player, so you can do extra work to make the list of > > potential players you're tracing against as small as possible. > > > > In pseudocode: > > > > For all players > > { > > if this player is likely to be hit by the ray > > ( this check can do a DistanceToRay from the traceline and > > exclude if needed ) > > { > > do the enginetrace->ClipRayToEntity > > > > now check if we hit the player and the hit was the > > closest thing that we hit > > } > > } > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JG > > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 4:40 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] TraceRay not hitting player's head > > > > I realize this is an old topic, but I have this same problem and can't > > find a solution. > > http://www.sourcemod.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3658 > > > > As you can see, the "bounding box" doesn't actually surround the whole > > model, so there lies the problem.. There's got to be a way to fix this > > since the traces done when someone fires at someone's head don't just go > > through the player's head. I just have no clue how to accomplish this. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Good call. Yes, it's > > for CS:S. > > > > > > On 3/25/06, Aaron Schiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -- > > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Are you using CS:S? > > > coz CS:S models are weird... > > > > > > On 3/24/06, LDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > -- > > > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] For debugging > > > > purposes, in a MP game, I'm drawing a line to the endpoint of the > > > > trace. If I aim at a foot, body, hand, etc. the player entity is > > > > returned and the line gets drawn to that point. But if I aim at the > > > head, > > > > the trace doesn't see the player and it draws the line right through > > > > > > the player's head to whatever is behind him. > > > > > > > > CTraceFilterHitAll traceFilter; > > > > enginetrace->TraceRay(ray, MASK_ALL, &traceFilter, &tr ); > > > > > > > > Do I need to change my mask or trace filter I need to use to include > > > > > > the > > > a > > > > player's head? Why won't this work? > > > > > > > > Grant > > > > (L. 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