Tony: Was that directed towards me? :P On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Tony Sergi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > -- 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
