I'm not sure how hard it is to load VFileSystem009 from a plugin but IFileSystem in public/FileSystem.h has a FileExists method. I'm not sure how LoadFileForMe works but I imagine the buffer has a long life, and I believe it memory maps the file.
I think there are callbacks for when a player connects in the engine? Which one are you using to check? ClientConnect or something else in DLL_FUNCTIONS should hopefully let you hook the player joining a game.
I think strings allocated by ALLOC_STRING last as long as the engine is running but I don't believe it's smart enough to check for already allocated strings.
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Posted 1 year ago2023-11-30 11:24:00 UTC
in Best practices (noob question) - multiple .dll or squeezing everything in one? Post #348121
in Best practices (noob question) - multiple .dll or squeezing everything in one? Post #348121
Maybe use a cvar that selects the game rules.
I've only used zbot myself but podbot is an option - there are probably others. Check out Bots United as it has a few options.
Yeah it was still happening with the latest update, but I figured it out.
I hadn't quite disabled all the external .dll files - I was still linking steam_api.lib which seems to run some code automatically, and apparently Half-Life updated the version of the Steamworks SDK it was using. Previously it was using 1.42 but as of the these recent changes, it's now using 1.53a (which is still somewhat old).
I hadn't quite disabled all the external .dll files - I was still linking steam_api.lib which seems to run some code automatically, and apparently Half-Life updated the version of the Steamworks SDK it was using. Previously it was using 1.42 but as of the these recent changes, it's now using 1.53a (which is still somewhat old).
Posted 1 year ago2023-11-30 11:20:10 UTC
in Half-Life mods no longer receiving command line parameters Post #348118
in Half-Life mods no longer receiving command line parameters Post #348118
Okay I figured it out - the engine ran the game at the same resolution as my screen which obscured the border - so it was windowed, just huge.
Posted 1 year ago2023-11-26 09:01:42 UTC
in Half-Life mods no longer receiving command line parameters Post #348093
in Half-Life mods no longer receiving command line parameters Post #348093
I've tried adding -window -condebug to the command line parameters for one of my mods through the Steam UI but the mod still loads full screen. Is this not working at the moment?
I know this is due to the 25th anniversary update but my mod is still failing to launch with this error and I'm not really sure what the cause is. I thought the last patch fixed most mods not launching.
I've tried disabling the Steam API and all the external .dll files I'm loading but no luck. Source code is at https://github.com/tschumann/basis if that helps. The issue is somewhere in client.dll anyway - if I get rid of my client.dll the game reaches the main menu.
I've tried disabling the Steam API and all the external .dll files I'm loading but no luck. Source code is at https://github.com/tschumann/basis if that helps. The issue is somewhere in client.dll anyway - if I get rid of my client.dll the game reaches the main menu.
Yes looks like it - the cs_amd64.so looks like it was built with gcc 3.2.2 so very old.
I think the Counter-Strike update before last had some stuff enabled but the last patch fixed it.
I'm pretty sure that the GoldSource engine is and always has been 32-bit, but I've noticed that the Linux/dedicated server builds have a few _amd64.so files (and equivalent _i686.so files).
I'm guessing that the _amd64.so files are just unused but does anyone know why they're there or when they started shipping? I'm pretty sure they've been there since before Counter-Strike had a Linux port anyway.
I'm guessing that the _amd64.so files are just unused but does anyone know why they're there or when they started shipping? I'm pretty sure they've been there since before Counter-Strike had a Linux port anyway.
Nice work.
Sure it. Like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake etc, it's still an engine that isn't too complicated to understand.
Is there an error in the console?
Posted 2 years ago2022-03-25 10:52:29 UTC
in Documentary on Making of Black Mesa coming soon... Post #346360
in Documentary on Making of Black Mesa coming soon... Post #346360
Nice - I'll have to put some time aside for this.
I think the Half-Life SDK has the Counter-Strike bot code: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/tree/master/game_shared/bot
It is probably more advanced than botman's code but it won't work without a lot of modification.
It is probably more advanced than botman's code but it won't work without a lot of modification.
Agreed - the logic for HealthThink should be part of CBasePlayer.
Are these models you've made yourself? I think that happens if the origin of the model is wrong.
I think player models have their origin in the centre of the model but other human models have it in the middle of the feet.
I think player models have their origin in the centre of the model but other human models have it in the middle of the feet.
It's crashing the compiler right? Or the model viewer?
Do you have the source so we can try and see why it crashes?
Do you have the source so we can try and see why it crashes?
Posted 2 years ago2022-02-20 00:02:02 UTC
in Problem with water reflections in 3D Skybox Post #346290
in Problem with water reflections in 3D Skybox Post #346290
Hm not sure - are there any retail maps in any Source game with water in the skybox?
I've also added a new debug-only feature to help diagnose incorrect usage of SetThink, SetUse, SetTouch and SetBlocked. If you try to set one of these to a function pointer that does not belong to the class hierarchy of the entity that you're setting the function on you'll get an error message in the console warning you about it. Setting a function incorrectly can cause strange bugs and crashes so this will help a lot.Where is that change? I couldn't see anything obvious in the most recent commit messages.
Yes CST is open source.
My plate is full and I'm not too familiar with how rad or lighting works. I want to read Michael Abrash's book at some point though.
My plate is full and I'm not too familiar with how rad or lighting works. I want to read Michael Abrash's book at some point though.
Yep that looks like it - thank you!
Posted 2 years ago2022-01-27 10:33:25 UTC
in Where are the HEV suit weapons pick up lines in the sdk? Post #346237
in Where are the HEV suit weapons pick up lines in the sdk? Post #346237
I didn't have heaps of time to track it down but they're defined in sounds/sentences.tx (HEV_TRIPMINE for example) - not sure where they get played in the code but CBasePlayer::SetSuitUpdate looks related.
Ah - maybe there would be information in the original Source SDK but it was probably removed with the Episode One changes.
Oh, I didn't realise there were compile tools for the Xbox version of Half-Life 2.
What was there? Episode One studiomdl and early map compile tools (maybe Custom Source Tools a.k.a cst) should work out of the box I think - just no .xtf exporter.
What was there? Episode One studiomdl and early map compile tools (maybe Custom Source Tools a.k.a cst) should work out of the box I think - just no .xtf exporter.
I remember on another forum seeing a modder using Quake models (called alias models by the engine) in Half-Life.
I tried this myself and the models load but are rendered full-black but his models were properly rendered (probably custom client.dll code).
Does anyone remember this? I've tried to track it down but couldn't find it.
I tried this myself and the models load but are rendered full-black but his models were properly rendered (probably custom client.dll code).
Does anyone remember this? I've tried to track it down but couldn't find it.
Which vanishing do you mean?
Yes I think you're right - I could have sworn that an extra one of those texture flags was secretly usable but I can't remember where I saw that.
I tried the STUDIO_NF_FULLBRIGHT flag but that didn't seem to work - I thought I'd discussed it with someone and it worked in Half-Life.
Posted 2 years ago2021-12-24 04:44:44 UTC
in [HELP] I can see other entities through custom textures Post #346157
in [HELP] I can see other entities through custom textures Post #346157
What do you mean you saw stairs? The image is a bit small to see what is going on.
Posted 2 years ago2021-12-24 04:42:53 UTC
in Half-Life mods reimplementations updates released Post #346156
in Half-Life mods reimplementations updates released Post #346156
Nice work @malortie.
Hm, is it possible to swap the edict_t* of the players?
The studio.h that ships with the latest SDK has a STUDIO_NF_FULLBRIGHT flag. I haven't tried it to see if the engine supports it but if it does you could IEngineStudio.SetForceFaceFlags( STUDIO_NF_FULLBRIGHT ); in StudioModelRenderer
Did you manage to get client.dll to load before you made your changes?
Yeah this probably isn't really doable - you could load both sets of models with different names and do conditional rendering in client.dll based on the map name but that's probably about it.
Posted 3 years ago2021-12-20 22:53:52 UTC
in Half-Life mods reimplementations updates released Post #346142
in Half-Life mods reimplementations updates released Post #346142
Nice work - did you recode it all by hand?
I thought about how to do this a while ago but never looked into it, and I don't know what the Decay mod did but I imagine you could decompile their .dll and see.
I'd try just swapping the pev of the two players and see how that goes.
I'd try just swapping the pev of the two players and see how that goes.
Posted 3 years ago2021-12-20 22:51:15 UTC
in adding back the alpha 0.52 blood stream effect? Post #346140
in adding back the alpha 0.52 blood stream effect? Post #346140
Probably not easily - UTIL_BloodStream just sends an engine message that does predefined stuff.
You could spawn an entity that trails blood when something takes damage and make the entity move with a sinusoidal pattern. If you add the EF_GIBS flag to the model it will automatically trail blood.
You could spawn an entity that trails blood when something takes damage and make the entity move with a sinusoidal pattern. If you add the EF_GIBS flag to the model it will automatically trail blood.
Have you changed sprites.txt or something like that? Those code changes shouldn't change the sprites used.
Posted 3 years ago2021-12-20 22:40:19 UTC
in [HL] Enabling shadows in latest engine - Tutorial Post #346138
in [HL] Enabling shadows in latest engine - Tutorial Post #346138
How does it work? What is GL_StudioDrawShadow + 35 in the engine?
The first one may be tricky - I'm not sure off the top of my how the long jump works but I believe there's a buttons variable and the code would check that both the crouch and jump bits are set. Changing it to double-tap of the spacebar would be doable - on the first jump set a flag on the player and if the player presses jump again within one second or whatever, long jump, otherwise clear the flag.
If Half-Life supports mousewheel press I think that would just be an extra binding in config.cfg
If Half-Life supports mousewheel press I think that would just be an extra binding in config.cfg
Player models have special texture palette handling: http://www.the303.org/tutorials/gold_remap.htm
Posted 3 years ago2021-12-20 22:25:29 UTC
in HLMV gives "error loading model" but crowbar compiles model without any errors Post #346135
in HLMV gives "error loading model" but crowbar compiles model without any errors Post #346135
Does it load with fewer than 32 materials? Source's HLMV might be hard-coded to only load 32 or fewer.
Posted 3 years ago2021-12-20 22:24:13 UTC
in How to change the position of the main menu buttons in Half Life 2? Post #346134
in How to change the position of the main menu buttons in Half Life 2? Post #346134
I'm not sure but it would be somewhere in the resources/ directories in one of the .res files. I think some of them have x any y coordinates but I've never tried playing with them.
All you need to do is find the texture a (a .vtf file somewhere in the materials/ directory) and overwrite it.
VTFEdit lets you create new .vtf files: https://nemstools.github.io/pages/VTFLib-Download.html
I think there may be a PhotoShop plugin somewhere too.
VTFEdit lets you create new .vtf files: https://nemstools.github.io/pages/VTFLib-Download.html
I think there may be a PhotoShop plugin somewhere too.
Spawning models in 007 NightfireIt doesn't have VGUI though which is a shame.
Do .seq files work without the trigger_sequence entity from Condition Zero Deleted Scenes?
Posted 4 years ago2020-09-20 11:17:17 UTC
in Foliage type model and problem with visibility on the other side of plane Post #344724
in Foliage type model and problem with visibility on the other side of plane Post #344724
If you're making a mod you should be able to get it to work by disabling backface culling in client.dll I think.
Also, in model_t textures is a texture_t** - is this to deal with animated textures or something? I never noticed it before to give it any thought.
Hm, I might have to do some digging (though the offsets and paloffset have both gone missing?) - fb_texturenum was definitely Xash3D specific I thought anyway.
Too bad there is no proper vanilla updated com_model.h - the one that always gets shared around I think has an out of date decal_t at least.
Too bad there is no proper vanilla updated com_model.h - the one that always gets shared around I think has an out of date decal_t at least.