Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-10 Thread Yorg Kuijs
It's a server side beam, so a lot of network traffic is taking place if you're moving a beam around I guess. Only way to get over that is make it clientside(if that's even possible) or find some other solution I guess. I could be wrong though , but I remember seeing some other post about

Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-10 Thread Tom Leighton
Is there not a C_Beam class? In theory, if you create the beam in a client-side run function of an entity, then every player should get those beams drawn on every entity, without requiring the server to send it all over the network, resulting in lag-free beams. I think. Yorg Kuijs wrote:

Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-10 Thread Christopher Harris
-Original Message- From: hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Tom Leighton Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 11:06 AM To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm Is there not a C_Beam class

[hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-09 Thread James Murray
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?

Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher Harris
: [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

Re: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm

2009-04-09 Thread James Murray
-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of James Murray Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:11 AM To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlcoders] Laggy Beam in Hl2dm Hi I am making a LaserGun for my hl2dm mod and I am just trying to get