rotating player

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

Hello,
I have a little problem, I want to rotate the player to make wall runs possible, but apparently CBasePlayer::SetAbsAngles() doesn't work.
Any ideas?

[omnicoder]

Player isn't allowed to rotate like that as it would mess up collisions. The player uses an Axis-Aligned Bounding-Box:

In many applications the bounding box is aligned with the axes of the co-ordinate system, and it is then known as an axis-aligned bounding box (AABB). To distinguish the general case from an AABB, an arbitrary bounding box is sometimes called an oriented bounding box (OBB). AABBs are much simpler to test for intersection than OBBs, but have the disadvantage that when the model is rotated they cannot be simply rotated with it, but need to be recomputed.

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

eh, it's possible somehow, I already seen something similar to what I want to do

[Gary]

Yeah, there was an entire mod based on the ideas of walking on walls and ceilings. No doubt it is possible.

[dark0r]

It's definitely possible to be on the ceiling using SetAbsAngles (although you would most definitely fall to the floor below, you'd need to disable gravity). Surely you'd just have to set the roll to 180 degrees for the view (which should happen if the view angle is copied from the absolute angles of the player)

Try forcing CBasePlayer::CalcViewRoll to return 180. Hope that helps you off.

[-=Biohazard=-]

It's definitely possible to be on the ceiling using SetAbsAngles

No...

This patch by Winston should get you started with the gamemovement and viewvector offset (iirc). All that is left to do is write some custom input stuff that translates your mouseinput into worldspace and rotates the player properly etc.

For the AABB I'd use something like (-) Vector(36,36,36) for min/max; if this is for mp you also need to override GetRenderAngles/ Origin (the latter just in case you have surfaces that are not axis aligned) and do something with the hitboxes.