It's called smart optimization.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: January-01-09 6:51 PM To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Grenades going through spawned models That might be one of the most horrible hacks I have ever heard about on the source engine. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jay Stelly <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are using the frag grenades from hl2 they use collision groups to > specifically disable collisions between their physics objects and other > objects (NPCs for example). Then they trace rays to fake it in their > VPhysicsUpdate() function. That allows them to bounce off of the NPCs' > hitboxes without those hitboxes actually being in the physics simulation. > > It's possible that the reason they aren't colliding is this collision rule > behavior. Try changing the collision group of the grenade or the other > entity to COLLISION_GROUP_NONE and see if that fixes the problem. > > Jay > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Aditya Gaddam >> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:32 AM >> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming >> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Grenades going through spawned models >> >> BUMP. Anyone have any clues about this? >> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Aditya Gaddam >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have project where I am spawning some models >> programmatically. They >> > collide fine with me and most ammunition (including >> rockets, crossbow >> > bolts, SMG secondary fire), but grenades and the secondary fire for >> > the assault rifle seem to just go through. >> > >> > The models being spawned derive from CBaseAnimating and have >> > SOLID_VPHYSICS via SetSolid. Does anyone have any idea why >> this would be? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Aditya >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.pixelfaction.com >> > AIM:ApeWithABrain >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.pixelfaction.com >> AIM:ApeWithABrain >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
