Point_viewcontrol

[TDDKami]

First of all hey i am new to this website i been mapping some time now and i normal hang around FPSBanana.
And i have a question that nobody so for could help me with.
i made an Point_viewcontrol it works proper and everything until i give it a parent from that point it doesn't work at all i don't have any leaks or errors in my map do you guys have any idea how to fix this i really want to finish my map...

[Gucio]

Oh My God I Posted Exactly Same Topic Today... just 6 threads below... come on people...

I didn't found any useful solution (except one, but it's not what I needed...) so it is not working properly in EP2 engine. If You want it working, switch to the old one.

[TDDKami]

Sorry i looked for similar topics but didn't find one
and o yea i am making this for counter strike source

[TDDKami]

Either there are not alot of people around here... or no body knows it

[Gucio]

I'll look at it tomorrow, but i'm not promising anything.

[Gucio]

Okay, I worked it out.
I've never mapped for CSS, but it seems that engine automatically removes point_viewcontrol when it checks if this entity is parented, so You can't just 'parent' viewcontrol by key, You need to do it by Output.

I'll upload example for You:

css_vc.zip

point_viewcontrol entity

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On this map, spawn and use the grey button, it will enable point_viewcontrol and after 1 second will fire 'setparent' output to parent with train (this block up there) to see what i'm talking about.

[Gucio]

/bump

Hmmm, sooo... this is what You needed, cause i don't know if the problem is solved? Or You gave up on this forum?

[Generalvivi]

I really need this to work for my portal map. would you be able to parent one to a bone on an animating model in portal for me? just so I know it works or something? The ending sequence to my map is very dependent on this working.

[Mr. Happy]

Vivi just fire the setparent and setparentattatchment/setparentattatchementmaintainoffset

[Generalvivi]

are you sure that works?i need to go back . If i can't get it to work ill have to send someone the map to play with it or something

[Gucio]

i got problem with 'setparrentattachmentmaintainoffset', beceause it does the same thing I mentioned in there, but normal 'setparentattachment' is doing the right thing

Example if You need:

portal_vc.zip

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(camera parents to combine soldier's eyes attach point)

Also it seems that this entity is a bit messed up, i tried to create 2 same point_viewcontrols, and the second one just didn't want to work for no reason :F

[Generalvivi]

Ok so like , I tried it . but failed . So your map works fine but when i try and set it up with my model i get this error

"
ERROR: Tried to SetParentAttachment for entity point_viewcontrol (viewcontrol), but it has no attachment named Bone01.

"

which is weird because that the only bone it has. (see picture below)




So obviously there is something fishy about this. I bet I'm not including something in the qc file but damn I'm stumped.

[Angry Beaver]

you need to speifically include an attachment into the model don't you, you cnat just attach to any bone however you choose?