Re: [hlcoders] Documentation
Hello, I think the most important point in this discussion was completely ignored.. Aren't there any 'code analyzers'? I once had a shareware program that could read my code, and make a sort of flowchart of it. I bet there are way more advanced stuff out there that can easily dump out a visualized class hierarchial structure. Or else, you could try to write your own code analyzing program. (which *could* take less time then doing the entire source yourself..) Try something like Doxygen, or a number of other automated source analyzers which are most likely available on SourceForge.net. And at no cost.. Doxygen: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Greetings, -Markus ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
Re: [hlcoders] Sharing cvars between the client and server
Hello, I tried setting the flag before my original email. You are probably referring to FCVAR_REPLICATED. Did not work though. Try declaring the same cvar on client and server, and see what happens. The console prints something similiar to sv_foo not allowed in server.dll. All the cvar flags are quite nicely documented in the SDK docs on VERC. However, I did figure out a solution. What I was trying to do was declare a pointer to particular cvars using the cvar interface's FindCvar function: cvar-FindCvar( sv_foo ); The trouble was that I was declaring my pointers globally where the cvars normal declaration goes. So, I simply moved these variables into the class declaration where I intended to use them. Works just fine. I am a little worried about what might happen if for some reason the cvar were not to be found. My pointer might get a null value and you should know where that might lead.. So I may make a little wrapper class to search for the cvar I want, but make certain I am getting a safe value back in case something goes wrong. Hope that helps someone who might be doing something similiar! Greetings, -Markus On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:28:49 +1000, Luke Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont understand the last 3/4's of your post but theres a flag you can pass when you create a CVAR to make it shared between client and server. Sorry, dont remember its name right now. Just make the CVAR once in a file thats compiled into both, and give it that flag. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:27:49 -0700, Markus Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to share the same console variables between the client and server in a file that is compiled into both dlls. What I do in my shared file is create a pointer to the cvars like so: ConVar *melee_dmg = cvar-FindVar( melee_dmg ); And this works fine for both client and server. Now, the actual cvar is defined in the normal way in a seperate file, but it is only compiled into the server. Compiling a cvar into both dlls causes one to override the other, and thus the cvar(s) do not work. This seems like perfectly sound code as all goes well until actually loading the dlls hot off the compiler. For some reason when I load my mod, the Half-Life2 dlls are loaded instead. I am thinking the engine decides something is wrong with my dlls, but I find this rather irritating, as I would prefer a crash that I could perhaps debug.. All this happens without any error output whatsoever. I assume that on the client, FindVar() can find the cvars. Perhaps this is not the case. It is not really essential that the client knows the value of the cvar, except maybe for flow control later on down the road.. However, I am trying to avoid #ifdef hell as much as possible as this is a shared file. Greetings, -Markus ___ 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
[hlcoders] Sharing cvars between the client and server
Hi, I am trying to share the same console variables between the client and server in a file that is compiled into both dlls. What I do in my shared file is create a pointer to the cvars like so: ConVar *melee_dmg = cvar-FindVar( melee_dmg ); And this works fine for both client and server. Now, the actual cvar is defined in the normal way in a seperate file, but it is only compiled into the server. Compiling a cvar into both dlls causes one to override the other, and thus the cvar(s) do not work. This seems like perfectly sound code as all goes well until actually loading the dlls hot off the compiler. For some reason when I load my mod, the Half-Life2 dlls are loaded instead. I am thinking the engine decides something is wrong with my dlls, but I find this rather irritating, as I would prefer a crash that I could perhaps debug.. All this happens without any error output whatsoever. I assume that on the client, FindVar() can find the cvars. Perhaps this is not the case. It is not really essential that the client knows the value of the cvar, except maybe for flow control later on down the road.. However, I am trying to avoid #ifdef hell as much as possible as this is a shared file. Greetings, -Markus ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
Re: [hlcoders] sk_plr_dmg_pistol
Hi, Singleplayer weapon damage is setup in cfg/skill.cfg. Or you can set the value in any cfg file that gets run before the game loads, really. Hope that helps. -Markus ---Original Message--- From: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Date: 01/22/05 23:03:21 To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlcoders] sk_plr_dmg_pistol You can set the damage for a bullet in that weapon's script file. On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:55:46 -0500, David Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I setup my own ammo in hl2_gamerules and setup the CVar sk_plr_dmg_pistol. But where is the cvar assigned a value of how much damage to do? Is this done with the DMG_BULLET? Or can you set a value to it? Thanks, David ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
[hlcoders] Climbing Ladders
Hello, Has anyone else noticed an inability to climb ladders in the MP SDK code? At first I thought this was because the CSDKGameMovement class declared its own constructor without calling the base class constructor and something was not being initialized, but this does not help. I've been digging around in game_movement.cpp. It appears that in CGameMovement::LadderMove() only the top bit is being executed before the traceline. I spit a message to the console right after this traceline, but I only see it a few times at the beginning of a map, and then never again. I will look into this more later, but school has now started up (so I am stuck with java right now ;( ). Any thoughts? Greetings, -Markus ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
[hlcoders] SERVERCLASS vs NETWORKCLASS
Hello, I have been porting some HL2 weapons to the multiplayer mod I am working on, and I am curious to know the difference between the SERVERCLASS and NETWORKCLASS entities. There seems to be a significant difference. The SDK weapons use the DECLARE_NETWORKCLASS() and DECLARE_PREDICTABLE() macros, then that source file is compiled into both the server and client. The HL2 weapons on the other hand use the DECLARE_SERVERCLASS() macro and a data table. Both these methods seem 'networked for multiplayer', and in the Entity Networking doc only SERVERCLASS is discussed. What is the preferred method for multiplayer and why? Greetings, -Markus ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
