MGummelt Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 Hi everybody Hi sir Let me tell you something. You have coded two of the best games I ever played. Jedi Academy and Outcast did my childhood, my teenage years and my young adult life on videogames. I don't know how much I can thank you, and what can I do, but you have made gold. Still playing and modding for this JA, 14 years after the release. I think I know every single cheat code, every single g_something of SP game, every single trick of the "playermodel" function and now coding, I understand what I have played. And I think I will play this game until the end of computers. I am creating mods for SP, with 45, 55 maps, it requiers me years. But the biggest project of all time we all want here is Jedi Knight III. We want Kyle Katarn to come back. And If I had enough time and energy, I would have contacted the best mappers, modelers, coders and would have launched the project, because I am the kind of modders who finish what they start. Seeing you here Sir, is like having the announcement of JKIII. It show us that, 14 years later, peoples who made the dream still care about Jedi Knight, and I think that means a lot to all of us. Thank you for all. Awesome, thanks for sharing your experience! I have to say, I have been constantly impressed with the Jedi community since before we released Outcast (how they would react to our early screenshots and point stuff out that needed to be fixed - like additive saber trails instead of normal blending) to how they behaved in Duel mode to the incredible modding scene that made me want to make Academy easier to mod to the constant modding and playing that's gone on since then! I'm proud to have been a part of a game that's brought so much enjoyment and elicited so much creative passion for so many... Here's a little list I wrote up recently of slightly more obscure console commands/cvars. Maybe there's one in there you didn't know about? setmindtrick 4 - makes mind trick take over an NPC when you use it on them - you have full control over the NPC, you can even make them kill other NPC or jump to their deaths iknowkungfu I added so I could test the slow-mo camera spin that plays automatically when you defeat the last enemy in the room. That slow-mo spin is on a console variable, too - you can disable it, make it do it on every kill and even make it do it on dodges/flips/rolls. G_saberautoblocking is one I made to try out a manual blocking system. If you set that to 0, then bind a key/button to +block, then you will only block when you actually actively do so. We left autoblocking on to be more player-friendly, but I kinda liked the extra level of skill it took. Helpusobi 1 was our replacement for sv_cheats. I think James Monroe came up with that one. There were a bunch of dismemberment console variables that I made to test our dismemberment system. The ESRB found out about them *after* they rated the game and we’d already shipped it. They threatened to change our rating to M unless we removed it from the game (never mind the fact that people get dismembered in every single Star Wars movie). First we obfuscated it, but ultimately we had to disable it altogether. set g_debugMelee to 1 to be able to do an extended set of melee moves - kicks, punches, grapples and throws. g_gravity - changes gravity, obvs g_timescale - slow or fast mo playermodel <whatever NPC you want> - lets you play as any NPC, even an AT-ST, droid or Boba Fett (with flamethrower, rockets, jetpack, etc.) g_saberAutoAim - aims your sabers at enemies so when you swing, it just intelligently swings in the right direction g_saberNewControlScheme use +forcefocus to pull off all the special moves g_saberLockRandomNess controls frequency of saberlocks g_debugSaberLock makes saberlocks happen all the time g_saberPickuppableDroppedSabers lets you pick up sabers that are dropped g_AIsurrender - enable/disable AI surrendering to the player if outmatched npc spawn <NPC> spawn any NPC runscript <.ibi file> lets you run any .ibi file from the console playerteam free, player, enemy, neutral - change you team (as if you turned to the dark side - Luke, Kyle, etc would attack you, bad guys would be on your side) control <targetname> - take over an NPC by targetname (or it will pick whoever you’re looking at grab <targetname> grapple the NPC you’re looking at or by targetname knockdown - knock yourself down Cerez, Smoo and Sir Crusher like this
MGummelt Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 Let me explain this more in depth (concerns only JK2)Current JK2 QVM rand() implementation uses a linear congruential generator algorithm and returns LOWEST bits of calculated value: int rand( void ) { randSeed = (69069 * randSeed + 1); return randSeed & 0x7fff; } Unfortunately lowest bits have very short periods - at most 2^n for nth bit. For example subsequent (rand() & 1) calls yield (1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0…) sequence. Now consider this simplified code example: if (rand() & 1) { SaberBlock(); if (rand() & 1) { SaberParry(); } } Of course SaberParry() never actually happens, despite the developer's intent. This is simplified and over-dramatized, but this type of unintended correlations surely exist in JK2 code due to this rand() implementation. Also consider that players who've never seen the code are aware that parry never happens right after block. One could say that they "recognize pattern" (although here it's just a dead code, you can imagine more complex and not 0/1 correlations). Now examine same code segment in a mod: if (rand() & 1) { SaberBlock(); saberColor = rand(); if (rand() & 1) { SaberParry(); } } The situation changes diametrically even though a mod developer thought he wasn't altering block/parry behaviour. Nice catch - though, of course, inside SaberBlock() there are multiple calls to rand(), so that doesn't quite work out the way you said.
MGummelt Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 BTW, sorry if I disappear for several days at a time. This weekend we had company and a party to host, so I didn't have time to sit down for a couple hours and do this. And this week we have some important big-wigs visiting Raven and I need to get a mode I'm working on in perfect shape and a stable build together before they get here. Thanks for understanding! Asgarath83, Tempust85, Smoo and 1 other like this
Archangel35757 Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 @@MGummelt - No worries... family and work come first. Apologies for the carpet bombing of questions. Cerez and MGummelt like this
Guest Redemption Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Hi, @@MGummelt that Raven meeting sounds interesting I'm afraid what you said about adding the function before the function doesn't work, I've been trying all kinds of ways including what you said a couple of days ago.This is what I'm trying at the moment but, if I can't get this working properely, I'll revert to:anim = qirand ( loads of anims here)Here's what I've got so far. if (victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_GALAKMECH || victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_SHADOWTROOPER) { vec3_t att_Right, att_Up, att_Left, att_DeflectionDir; float swingRDot, swingUDot; swingRDot = DotProduct(att_Right, att_DeflectionDir); swingUDot = DotProduct(att_Up, att_DeflectionDir); if (swingRDot > 0.25f) {//deflect to right if (swingUDot > 0.25f) {//deflect to top PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_TR); } else if (swingUDot > 0.25f) {//deflect to bottom PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_BR); } else {//deflect horizontally PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1__R); } } else if (swingRDot < 0.25f) {//deflect to left if (swingUDot < 0.25f) {//deflect to top PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_TL); } else if (swingUDot < 0.25f) {//deflect to bottom PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_BL); } else {//deflect horizontally PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1__L); } } else {//deflect in middle if (swingUDot > 0.25f) {//deflect to top PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_T_); } else if (swingUDot < -0.25f) {//deflect to bottom PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_B_); } else {//deflect horizontally? Well, no such thing as straight back in my face, so use top if (swingRDot > 0) { PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_TR); } else if (swingRDot < 0) { PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_TL); } else { PM_SetSaberMove(LS_D1_T_); } } } return didDamage; } Thank you
MGummelt Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 Hi, @@MGummelt that Raven meeting sounds interesting I'm afraid what you said about adding the function before the function doesn't work,Wait, hold on. What do you mean "it doesn't work". How does it not work? What's the error? Show me what you did. Did you try to move the whole function definition higher up (you can't do that) or did you just declare it at the top like I showed (that should absolutely work). To clarify the terms I'm using, just in case you're not familiar:http://www.cprogramming.com/declare_vs_define.html
Asgarath83 Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 BTW, sorry if I disappear for several days at a time. This weekend we had company and a party to host, so I didn't have time to sit down for a couple hours and do this. And this week we have some important big-wigs visiting Raven and I need to get a mode I'm working on in perfect shape and a stable build together before they get here. Thanks for understanding! Not worry, real life come ever before of virtual life. thanks to you for all help you get to us for our projects About my code troubles: i'm sorry for late but i try to answer about all your consideration.First off, thanks for answers. really, i appreciated and you give me also some new code incipit.SAbout my bug of invisible saber: the NPC file i used for testing my AI get 5 different version of NPC for test all possible weapons behavours: Arcane { playerModel stormtrooper weapon WP_BLASTER_PISTOL weapon WP_BLASTER weapon WP_REPEATER weapon WP_FLECHETTE weapon WP_DEMP2 weapon WP_CONCUSSION weapon WP_BOWCASTER weapon WP_ROCKET_LAUNCHER weapon WP_JAWA weapon WP_POISON // saber dual_3 FP_HEAL 1 FP_LEVITATION 1 FP_DRAIN 1 FP_SEE 1 FP_RAGE 1 FP_PROTECT 1 FP_SPEED 1 FP_PUSH 1 FP_PULL 1 FP_SABER_DEFENSE 1 FP_SABER_OFFENSE 1 FP_SABERTHROW 1 FP_LIGHTNING 1 FP_GRIP 1 FP_TELEPATHY 1 FP_ABSORB 1 FP_FORCEGLYPH 1 forceRegenRate 150 forcePowerMax 100 rank lt reactions 3 aim 1 move 4 aggression 5 evasion 3 intelligence 4 playerTeam TEAM_ENEMY enemyTeam TEAM_PLAYER class CLASS_WIZARD yawSpeed 100 walkSpeed 55 runSpeed 160 snd weequay sndcombat weequay sndjedi weequay health 300 dismemberProbHead 30 dismemberProbArms 30 dismemberProbLegs 20 dismemberProbHands 50 dismemberProbWaist 0 } Arcane2 { playerModel stormtrooper // Test per vedere se il modello Dumahim può lanciar granate. altfire 1 weapon WP_BLASTER_PISTOL weapon WP_BLASTER weapon WP_REPEATER weapon WP_FLECHETTE weapon WP_DEMP2 weapon WP_CONCUSSION weapon WP_BOWCASTER weapon WP_ROCKET_LAUNCHER weapon WP_JAWA weapon WP_POISON FP_HEAL 0 FP_LEVITATION 0 FP_DRAIN 0 FP_SEE 0 FP_RAGE 0 FP_PROTECT 0 FP_SPEED 0 FP_PUSH 0 FP_PULL 0 FP_SABER_DEFENSE 0 FP_SABER_OFFENSE 0 FP_SABERTHROW 0 FP_LIGHTNING 0 FP_GRIP 0 FP_TELEPATHY 0 FP_ABSORB 0 FP_FORCEGLYPH 0 forceRegenRate 150 forcePowerMax 100 rank captain reactions 3 aim 1 move 4 aggression 5 evasion 3 intelligence 4 playerTeam TEAM_ENEMY enemyTeam TEAM_PLAYER class CLASS_WIZARD yawSpeed 100 walkSpeed 55 runSpeed 160 snd weequay sndcombat weequay sndjedi weequay health 300 dismemberProbHead 30 dismemberProbArms 30 dismemberProbLegs 20 dismemberProbHands 50 dismemberProbWaist 0 } Arcane3 { playerModel stormtrooper // Test per vedere se il modello Dumahim può lanciar granate. weapon WP_SABER saber dual_3 FP_HEAL 1 FP_LEVITATION 1 FP_DRAIN 1 FP_SEE 1 FP_RAGE 1 FP_PROTECT 1 FP_SPEED 1 FP_PUSH 1 FP_PULL 1 FP_SABER_DEFENSE 1 FP_SABER_OFFENSE 1 FP_SABERTHROW 1 FP_LIGHTNING 1 FP_GRIP 1 FP_TELEPATHY 1 FP_ABSORB 1 FP_FORCEGLYPH 1 forceRegenRate 150 forcePowerMax 100 rank lt reactions 3 aim 1 move 4 aggression 5 evasion 3 intelligence 4 playerTeam TEAM_ENEMY enemyTeam TEAM_PLAYER class CLASS_WIZARD yawSpeed 100 walkSpeed 55 runSpeed 160 snd weequay sndcombat weequay sndjedi weequay health 300 dismemberProbHead 30 dismemberProbArms 30 dismemberProbLegs 20 dismemberProbHands 50 dismemberProbWaist 0 } Arcane4 { playerModel stormtrooper // Test per vedere se il modello Dumahim può lanciar granate. weapon WP_SABER saber dual_3 // weapon WP_CANNON weapon WP_REPEATER weapon WP_FLECHETTE weapon WP_DEMP2 weapon WP_CONCUSSION weapon WP_BOWCASTER weapon WP_ROCKET_LAUNCHER weapon WP_JAWA weapon WP_POISON FP_HEAL 1 FP_LEVITATION 1 FP_DRAIN 1 FP_SEE 1 FP_RAGE 1 FP_PROTECT 1 FP_SPEED 1 FP_PUSH 1 FP_PULL 1 FP_SABER_DEFENSE 1 FP_SABER_OFFENSE 1 FP_SABERTHROW 1 FP_LIGHTNING 1 FP_GRIP 1 FP_TELEPATHY 1 FP_ABSORB 1 FP_FORCEGLYPH 1 forceRegenRate 150 forcePowerMax 100 rank lt reactions 3 aim 1 move 4 aggression 5 evasion 3 intelligence 4 playerTeam TEAM_ENEMY enemyTeam TEAM_PLAYER class CLASS_WIZARD yawSpeed 100 walkSpeed 55 runSpeed 160 snd weequay sndcombat weequay sndjedi weequay health 300 dismemberProbHead 30 dismemberProbArms 30 dismemberProbLegs 20 dismemberProbHands 50 dismemberProbWaist 0 } Arcane5 { playerModel stormtrooper // Test per vedere se il modello Dumahim può lanciar granate. weapon WP_TUSKEN_STAFF weapon WP_TUSKEN_RIFLE weapon WP_BLOODGUN weapon WP_CANNON weapon WP_DISRUPTOR weapon WP_BRYAR_PISTOL weapon WP_THERMAL FP_HEAL 1 FP_LEVITATION 1 FP_DRAIN 1 FP_SEE 1 FP_RAGE 1 FP_PROTECT 1 FP_SPEED 1 FP_PUSH 1 FP_PULL 1 FP_SABER_DEFENSE 1 FP_SABER_OFFENSE 1 FP_SABERTHROW 1 FP_LIGHTNING 1 FP_GRIP 1 FP_TELEPATHY 1 FP_ABSORB 1 FP_FORCEGLYPH 1 forceRegenRate 150 forcePowerMax 100 rank lt reactions 3 aim 1 move 4 aggression 5 evasion 3 intelligence 4 playerTeam TEAM_ENEMY enemyTeam TEAM_PLAYER class CLASS_WIZARD yawSpeed 100 walkSpeed 55 runSpeed 160 snd weequay sndcombat weequay sndjedi weequay health 300 dismemberProbHead 30 dismemberProbArms 30 dismemberProbLegs 20 dismemberProbHands 50 dismemberProbWaist 0 } the dual_3 model saber is replaced by a magic scepter imbue with fire power, but it works perfectly fine as model if get to player with saber cheat command consolle.arcane1 is for testing AI switching weapon basic behavour. the 2 is for testing altfire behavour and advanced and more smart fight.3 is for testing saber only - saberist behavour. 4 testing the switching before saber and other weapons (and was four to not working fine) 5 is for testing last set of weapons. WP_JAWA is modded for is a sonic shoot stun weapon. it works well. i fixed also his fire rate.WP_BRYAR_PISTOL is turned into a magic bow. disruptor into a sniper bow. tusken rifle into a bowcaster with magic arrows.as i told in the other thread (where i post the AI code related to switching weapons) the problem was when NPC get player \ enemy close, it equip saber for fight. it works fight. it activate NPC_fencer state and this state switch weapon to saber. (yes,. in past i tried also the set_saber function of icarus script, but in this contest it not work much fine)the adding of NPC_FENCER state fixed the saber invisible model trouble.the problem was the NPC not leave NPC_FENCER state, because into NPC.cpp there is a condituion related toelse if (NPC->client->ps.weapon == WP_SABER )... it activate Jedi behavour for all NPC with saber, for all classes. my AI is done cloning and editing boba fett AI and renaming functions for avoid overwriting or function conflict or function duplicated. basically, NPC_FENCER activate also, with saber, the statement of jedi behavour, so NPC fight like a jedi and forget to fight like bobafett. because into AI_jedi.cpp there is nothing concerned switch weapons, NPC not change more his state.i fix that editing the NPC.cpp condition in that way: else if ( NPC->client->ps.weapon == WP_SABER && NPC->client->NPC_class != CLASS_WIZARD ) {//jedi NPC_BehaviorSet_Jedi( bState ); dontSetAim = qtrue; } because my AI use this behavour: else if ( NPC->client->NPC_class == CLASS_WIZARD ) { NPC_Update(); if (NPCInfo->surrenderTime) { NPC_Flee(); } else { if (!NPC_Tactics()) { if ( NPC_Flying( NPC ) ) { NPC_BehaviorSet_Seeker(bState); //NPC_BSRT_Default(); } else { NPC_BehaviorSet_Jedi( bState ); } } dontSetAim = qtrue; } } this avoid interferences and now All works fine! About your suggest:-so is possible to create with code the saber bladetrace that cut and damages the enemy in artificial way. pretty interessing! I will conserve this suggest. sure can be useful in future. maybe some day i can use for create a monster with multiple sabertrace generated by code D: for moment for some monster creature i workaround the fact that a monster cannot carry more of two saber moving into model project on max the r_hand , l_hand tag on the position i want the moster doing saber damage (example... inside the mouth) or where i want it shoots force lightning or other things. - yes, working on an looong if \ else statement about specific saber name that do specific saber damage is not exaclty the more friendly code work. you suggest me a good alternative: working on MOD and add the name exception into the MOD statements. nice suggest. thanks! I discover casually the interference of behavour state that cause the problem of saber switch because after some hundred of test into t3_bounty map with npc fight simulation i noticed that a normal reborn \ other class npc turn off saber when i set into notarget cheats. the boba fett ai instead, not turn off the saber if player "disappering" so for that i understand that my Ai follow some strange behavour related to saber combat. and i checked AI_jedi.cpp and i see there is a counter about aggression level of saberist that turn down weapons after a lot of time, when aggression level is sufficient low after lost the enemy.after that and a lot of test around AI_jedi.cpp also about some saber function, i discovered the origin of the problem lead on NPC.cpp and so i found the cause. MGummelt likes this
RJA Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Thank you very much, I think the only ones I don't know were "grab" "knockdown" and "g_saberautoblocking" MGummelt likes this
Guest Redemption Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Hi, @@MGummelt, I commented out my attempt, and only added what you provided; that being the qboolean at the top of the file: void WP_SaberDrop( gentity_t *self, gentity_t *saber ); qboolean WP_SaberLose( gentity_t *self, vec3_t throwDir ); void WP_SaberReturn( gentity_t *self, gentity_t *saber ); void WP_SaberBlock( gentity_t *saber, vec3_t hitloc, qboolean missleBlock ); void WP_SaberBlockNonRandom( gentity_t *self, vec3_t hitloc, qboolean missileBlock ); void ForceThrow( gentity_t *self, qboolean pull ); qboolean WP_ForcePowerAvailable( gentity_t *self, forcePowers_t forcePower, int overrideAmt ); void WP_ForcePowerDrain( gentity_t *self, forcePowers_t forcePower, int overrideAmt ); qboolean WP_SaberParry(gentity_t *victim, gentity_t *attacker); Piece of code at applydamage bit: if (victim->client && (victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_GALAKMECH || victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_SHADOWTROOPER)) { WP_SaberParry(victim, attacker); return didDamage; } The error I get is Error: identifier "attacker" is undefined. So what I've done to get this to compile is add *attacker to gentity_t here: qboolean WP_SaberApplyDamage(gentity_t *ent, float baseDamage, int baseDFlags, qboolean brokenParry) { qboolean didDamage = qfalse; gentity_t *victim; gentity_t *attacker; int dFlags = baseDFlags; float maxDmg; It doesn't rebound of the shadowtrooper ingame anymore But... it definitely works with setting PM_setsabermove(), but I need to somehow implement an angle case so that it knows what anim to play. Sorry to bother you.
Guest Redemption Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 qboolean WP_SaberApplyDamage(gentity_t *ent, float baseDamage, int baseDFlags, qboolean brokenParry) { qboolean didDamage = qfalse; gentity_t *victim; gentity_t *attacker; int dFlags = baseDFlags; int WP_SaberParry(gentity_t *victim, gentity_t *attacker); float maxDmg; I just tried this, and while it didn't work from hitting the shadowtrooper on the back, when I knocked away his saber and attempted to hit him from the front, the game crashed to desktop. Smoo likes this
fau Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Nice catch - though, of course, inside SaberBlock() there are multiple calls to rand(), so that doesn't quite work out the way you said. Sure, as I wrote, this was an over-dramatized example :-)The saber combat works great and as a player I join all other people in this thread – thank you for my favorite saber combat system and game! I believe that the probabilities of various randomized things happening are not what they look like when reading the code due to correlations of rand() values. I don't have hard data to support it but I'm gonna collect it. Mods can unintentionally change these correlations by adding, removing or rearranging rand() calls and this is something to look out for and something that may hopefully explain different feeling of different mods in JK2. Footnote: Doesn't apply to JKA because it uses correctly implemented rand() procedures. Gonna add it to all my posts so people don't get wrong ideas. MGummelt and Smoo like this
GamingPrince83 Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Hey, just made an account for JKHub to respond to a thread about manual saber blocking and figured I'd offer up my insights if anyone had any questions about the Jedi Outcast or Jedi Academy source code (SP or MP). It's been almost 15 years since I've written or even seen most of it, but hopefully if you ask me a specific question about a specific chunk of code (copy/paste a chunk or gimme a file name and line number) I can at least try to jog my memory and speak intelligently about it. I'll try to check back if people have questions.Hello, i have a question regarding NPC stats (aggression, move, aim, evasion, reactions and intelligence), as for now you can set them in the .npc file between 1-5, i'd like to edit the code to increase them to maybe 1-20 to make an Npc more dangerous.Can you help me with this?
Stoiss Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Hello, i have a question regarding NPC stats (aggression, move, aim, evasion, reactions and intelligence), as for now you can set them in the .npc file between 1-5, i'd like to edit the code to increase them to maybe 1-20 to make an Npc more dangerous.Can you help me with this?im pretty sure that stuff is hard coded, and if you should have more dangerous npc's out of this i think it would need more then just edit some numbers, but also increase the damage output and more coding to it Asgarath83 likes this
Asgarath83 Posted March 4, 2017 Posted March 4, 2017 im pretty sure that stuff is hard coded, and if you should have more dangerous npc's out of this i think it would need more then just edit some numbers, but also increase the damage output and more coding to itTotally agree. change a value not change that. you need to manually code all effects of every parameters.(by 5 to 20 is a looong work >.< ) @@MGummelt sorry if i disturb again, but i have just a last question: there is some way to overcap the graphical engine limit related to MD3 and GLM? i mean that game crash if a mesh of MD3 model contain more of 1000 vertexes. and also for GLM models same things. also, if a model of character is too many complex or highpoly people get message "ran out of transform ghouls 2 space adjust mini heap size." what mean exactly this error and how is possible to overcap this limit into the code?
MGummelt Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 Hi, @@MGummelt, I commented out my attempt, and only added what you provided; that being the qboolean at the top of the file: void WP_SaberDrop( gentity_t *self, gentity_t *saber ); qboolean WP_SaberLose( gentity_t *self, vec3_t throwDir ); void WP_SaberReturn( gentity_t *self, gentity_t *saber ); void WP_SaberBlock( gentity_t *saber, vec3_t hitloc, qboolean missleBlock ); void WP_SaberBlockNonRandom( gentity_t *self, vec3_t hitloc, qboolean missileBlock ); void ForceThrow( gentity_t *self, qboolean pull ); qboolean WP_ForcePowerAvailable( gentity_t *self, forcePowers_t forcePower, int overrideAmt ); void WP_ForcePowerDrain( gentity_t *self, forcePowers_t forcePower, int overrideAmt ); qboolean WP_SaberParry(gentity_t *victim, gentity_t *attacker); Piece of code at applydamage bit: if (victim->client && (victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_GALAKMECH || victim->client->NPC_class == CLASS_SHADOWTROOPER)) { WP_SaberParry(victim, attacker); return didDamage; } The error I get is Error: identifier "attacker" is undefined. So what I've done to get this to compile is add *attacker to gentity_t here: qboolean WP_SaberApplyDamage(gentity_t *ent, float baseDamage, int baseDFlags, qboolean brokenParry) { qboolean didDamage = qfalse; gentity_t *victim; gentity_t *attacker; int dFlags = baseDFlags; float maxDmg; It doesn't rebound of the shadowtrooper ingame anymore But... it definitely works with setting PM_setsabermove(), but I need to somehow implement an angle case so that it knows what anim to play. Sorry to bother you. You don't need to create an attacker variable (it won't be initialized to anything - just random memory or NULL). "ent" is the attacker in this case (the character who's swinging the lightsaber). You can just pass "ent" in for the attacker. Or initialize your attacker variable to be ent, like so:gentity_t *attacker = ent; That's all.
MGummelt Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 Hello, i have a question regarding NPC stats (aggression, move, aim, evasion, reactions and intelligence), as for now you can set them in the .npc file between 1-5, i'd like to edit the code to increase them to maybe 1-20 to make an Npc more dangerous.Can you help me with this?What is it you're trying to accomplish? Do you want to make them more aggressive, move faster, aim better, evade more, react quicker and have more options available? Or do you want more granularity? Keep in mind that many of these values are checked in many different places in the AI code and if you're changing the scale of them, you'll have to change all the sites that check them. Like stats.aggression - some actions check for a relatively low number, like just checking to see if they should attack at the given moment. Others may check for a very high aggression (75-125 to go berzerk, for example). So it depends on what you're trying to accomplish by "increasing them to 1-20". If you just want to make NPCs more dangerous, increasing them in the .npc file is enough. But if you are trying to change the scale of the range to add more granularity, you'll need to modify all the code that increments, decrements and checks those stats. -Mike
MGummelt Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 @@MGummelt sorry if i disturb again, but i have just a last question: there is some way to overcap the graphical engine limit related to MD3 and GLM? i mean that game crash if a mesh of MD3 model contain more of 1000 vertexes. and also for GLM models same things. also, if a model of character is too many complex or highpoly people get message "ran out of transform ghouls 2 space adjust mini heap size." what mean exactly this error and how is possible to overcap this limit into the code? Sorry, graphics were not my area in Jedi. You'd have to ask James Monroe.
MGummelt Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 Stoiss, on 02 Mar 2017 - 2:08 PM, said:im pretty sure that stuff is hard coded, and if you should have more dangerous npc's out of this i think it would need more then just edit some numbers, but also increase the damage output and more coding to itTotally agree. change a value not change that. you need to manually code all effects of every parameters.(by 5 to 20 is a looong work >.< ) Actually, increasing those values will make them tougher enemies. In fact, that's how I make the enemies more difficult in higher difficulty levels of the game (I hate when games just make the enemies have more health). If you play on higher difficulty levels, we spawn tougher enemies with more abilities, more aggression and who are better at using them. Look in NPC_Spawn.cpp for all references to the g_spskill cvar. It's used to increase some of their stats like aim, speed, health, turning speed. It's also checked all over the AI code to make the enemies smarter and faster. So if you just want enemies more dangerous, play on the highest difficulty levels. If you want them even more dangerous, use higher values in the .npc files (or add to their stats on load in NPC_Spawn - maybe based on difficulty level) -Mike Archangel35757 and Asgarath83 like this
GamingPrince83 Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 This is an Example of what i edited in the SP code, but it doesn't make the NPC tougher or anything. //===AI STATS=====================================================================if ( !parsingPlayer ){// aggressionif ( !Q_stricmp( token, "aggression" ) ) {if ( COM_ParseInt( &p, &n ) ) {SkipRestOfLine( &p );continue;}if ( n < 1 || n > 5 ) { ---------------------------- I changed the normal value which is 1-5, to 1-9.gi.Printf( "bad %s in NPC '%s'\n", token, NPCName );continue;}if ( NPC->NPC ){stats->aggression = n;}continue;}
ensiform Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 No, if I recall we didn't want to give designers the ability to access any cvar they wanted - that would just be chaos. It would open up a bunch of features to them that we didn't intend, they didn't need and which they wouldn't entirely know the effects of. And some would work in development (like cheats) but not release. Instead if they needed a specific command to do something a cvar or console command could do, we wrote an ICARUS command for it. However, I imagine something like this could fairly easily be written. At least, someone could probably write a function to stuff a command to the console (like "\set g_sex f") or call Cvar_Set and Cvar_Get... We actually did add support for it in OpenJK project for JA single player. Not sure about JK2 SP. And pretty sure not for JAMP. (We still don't support jk2mp and probably never will because jk2mv exists)
ensiform Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 Note: if your function is in a different file altogether, you need to extern it like so: extern qboolean WP_SaberParry( gentity_t *victim, gentity_t *attacker ); Actually, the standard doesn't require that -- only for variables.
MGummelt Posted March 6, 2017 Author Posted March 6, 2017 Actually, the standard doesn't require that -- only for variables.True. I think we did it anyway if for no other reason than knowing by looking at the declaration whether it was actually defined in that file or not.
MGummelt Posted March 6, 2017 Author Posted March 6, 2017 This is an Example of what i edited in the SP code, but it doesn't make the NPC tougher or anything. //===AI STATS=====================================================================if ( !parsingPlayer ){// aggressionif ( !Q_stricmp( token, "aggression" ) ) {if ( COM_ParseInt( &p, &n ) ) {SkipRestOfLine( &p );continue;}if ( n < 1 || n > 5 ) { ---------------------------- I changed the normal value which is 1-5, to 1-9.gi.Printf( "bad %s in NPC '%s'\n", token, NPCName );continue;}if ( NPC->NPC ){stats->aggression = n;}continue;} Yeah that won't do anything but allow you to set a higher aggression stat in the .npc file. Also, if I recall, I think the aggression stat is just used to set the initial aggression of an AI? The actual, current aggression goes up and down dynamically as they detect enemies, fight and take damage, I think. GamingPrince83 likes this
minilogoguy18 Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 @@Asgarath83, make LOD's for your models and you'll never see the mini heap size error ever again. The 1000 vertex count per object is not a big deal, at all, far from it. You can have 32 parts to a model with 1000 vertex's each, that's a 32k vertex count for 1 model which is VERY high. Even games made for 8th generation game consoles don't have that much detail for a character model so the limit is actually quite high. To put that into perspective a game like The Force Unleashed the Darth Maul model which I'm sure you would agree is much higher quality than anything in the base JA game has less than 6k vertex's and you want to be able to put models in game that have more than 32k.
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