that's what everyone tells me but no one will tell me how to make it clientside,can you help me there?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Christopher Harris <[email protected]>wrote: > Beam needs to be created clientside instead of serverside. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Murray > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm > > Hi I am making a LaserGun for my hl2dm mod and I am just trying to get the > beam working first so I edited the 375 weapon code and added a constant > beam > that shows once the weapon is drawn,the problem I am having is that the > beam > is laggy when I move,here is my code can you please help me out? > > > > void CWeapon357::ItemPostFrame( void ) > > { > > CBasePlayer *pPlayer = ToBasePlayer( GetOwner() ); > > // set up the vectors and traceline > > trace_t tr; > > Vector vecDir, attachpoint; > > QAngle vBeamAng; > > Vector vecSrc = pPlayer->EyePosition(); > > // get our view model so we can find the attachment > > CBaseViewModel *pViewModel = pPlayer->GetViewModel(); > > // get the attachment points position and angles > > pViewModel->GetAttachment(pViewModel->LookupAttachment("muzzle"), > attachpoint, vBeamAng ); > > AngleVectors( vBeamAng, &vecDir); > > Vector vecStop = attachpoint + (vecDir * MAX_TRACE_LENGTH); > > // do the traceline > > UTIL_TraceLine( vecSrc, vecStop, MASK_ALL, pPlayer, COLLISION_GROUP_NPC, > &tr > ); > > //multiplayer needs this next line and the #endif that follows but for > singleplayer remove them > > #ifndef CLIENT_DLL > > //create the beam > > Vector vBeamPos = attachpoint; > > CBeam *pBeam = CBeam::BeamCreate( "sprites/laserbeam.vmt", 0.35 ); > > pBeam->PointEntInit( vBeamPos, this ); > > pBeam->SetAbsStartPos( tr.endpos ); > > pBeam->SetEndAttachment( 1 ); > > pBeam->SetColor( 20, 20, 250 ); > > pBeam->SetScrollRate( 25.6 ); > > pBeam->SetBrightness( 30 ); > > pBeam->LiveForTime( 0.00001 ); > > #endif > > BaseClass::ItemPostFrame(); > > } > _______________________________________________ > 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
