Those Simple "Source Programming Questions" Thread...

[fishshapedfish]

You need the entries form the hl2 skill.cfg file in your asw mod's skill.cfg file. It defines all of the damage amounts in hl2 including the zombie's.

[Ackart]

You need the entries form the hl2 skill.cfg file in your asw mod's skill.cfg file. It defines all of the damage amounts in hl2 including the zombie's.

I've already thrown that in. In fact, I set up new skill defines for the NPC and I even went as far as to just manually setting damage values in the MeleeAttack/ClawAttack function, but no dice.

[stoopdapoop]

why don't you just set a breakpoint before the line of code that's supposed to call it to see what condition is not being met?

These should be some of the easiest bugs to figure out.

[Ackart]

why don't you just set a breakpoint before the line of code that's supposed to call it to see what condition is not being met?

Because, to be honest, I've never actually touched the debugging tools in VS before. Programming isn't exactly my forte in any way, shape or form, but no one else is gonna do it so I have to learn. Anyway, I'll give that a shot when I get home tonight, thanks!

[Swog]

Why can't I compile my mod under Visual Studios 2012?

[LordDz]

Why can't I compile my mod under Visual Studios 2012?

I can. However I can only do it in release mode.. But have you followed these tutorials?

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... ource_Code
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... e_problems

[fishshapedfish]

Been having problems getting jang's nice particle effect to dispatch properly. I programmed it to spawn at my npc's origin (it's feet) but it just refuses to stay there.

It's a bit hard to see so you will need to watch it fullscreen. It's ment to be black smoke, you can just see a wisp of it flying away from the npc's when it spawn them. I believe it is flying to the maps origin and then disappearing but I could be wrong.

[Jangalomph]

You dont need to code it to spawn at their feet, you're supposed to code it so it locks to any bone, perhaps their neck or something, and then the particle should randomly spawn all over the model. If you can find the way they dispatch ignition of any entity, you should beable to do it exact same way. Just image the npc on fire, but with my shadow smoke stuff.

[fishshapedfish]

That's kind of what I did, I 'locked' it to the model's origin instead of an attachment. I'll try it your way if my decompiler will work. Then add in some attachments into the qc. I hope it works!

[fishshapedfish]

I was right, the particle effect was flying to the map's origin. Even after I changed the code to attach the particle to an attachment it still did this. WTF is happening!

[zombie@computer]

Particle parenting to model attachments is borked. There's a code fix on the vdc. Did you try it?

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... cle_Effect

[Jangalomph]

Yep, make sure you fix the attachment code, if you don't the particle only knows to spawn at the origin of the map
0, 0, 0

[fishshapedfish]

Yeah I did the fix, no luck though

[LordDz]

Look how the manhack attaches its GlowTrail, should be the same thing?

[Jangalomph]

I told you to try and see how they ignite props etc.

If you can figure out how npc's have fire parented to them, then you'll be good to go.