Hello,
I'm modifying the source code of CAR.C in order to automatically load a SHADOW model (MDL) during the wheel loading process (see function "car_wheelcreate()" for more info).

Now I need to refer to an entity with the same name of the wheel, but with the postfix "_shadow". For example, if the car is called FORMULA1.mdl, then the wheel will be FORMULA1_wheel.mdl (it already works in this way). Shadow model for the wheel should be:

FORMULA1_wheel_shadow.mdl

My problem is I cannot load and refer to it at runtime.
For the car body I use a global ENTITY:



But I cannot use the same way for the wheel, since in the function I don't know how that model will be called.
So I tried this code:



Where wheelShadow is the entity used to manage the MDL model, and wheel_shadow_name is the full name of the MDL model self.
My problem is the created entity always appear in the screen!
Furthermore, even if I don't get any error, it seems it does not work.

Can you help me please?

Thank you!

Hello, I red my post again and I found a small mistake in my code:



Flag TYPE does not contain "SHOW".
Basically my question is:

if I can load a shadow entity by defining a global variable defined as:



How can I define it using code and local variables?
It seems it the previous code example the model is not shown, instead if I use the following code the model is shown in the 3D environment:



Thank you!