Hmm, damn.
OK, this a trial and error thing, but if you put SCAN_TEXTURE into the c-trace,
does the "tex_name" string change to a useful name of the string of the hit part?
Or does it just give the MDL-filename? If it gives the skin name, can you name
those in such a way to be able to extract the info you need?

OR
Does your textures have the alpha channel UNUSED? If it does, create alpha channels
on each skin and "paint" a specific alpha value over each body part.
That is replace our separate color-map skin with the alpha channel.
Youve just got to do it so the alpha channel never get displayed.
(never use the tranparent flag I believe...)
This will depend uon us getting different skin names from "tex_name" as the previous
paragraph tries for.

I can give more detail if this is managable.

i understand. I think its managable, but i use as for shoot detection, a bullet using C_move and it doestn contain any scan_texture.I guess ill migrate to c_trace for shoot detection.
Ill try this at home and see if any of this 2 workarounds works!

thanks

No need to migrate, just perform the c_trace after the c_move HITS the target.

well..
the scan_texture thing returns the mdl file name, not the skin name. so it doesnt work for me.
and i failed trying the alpha channel thing.
I tried creating an alpha channel in photoshop and painted it with purple as a test. and it paints gray! not purple...
Does alpha channel has colors or is a color? or is just a 0 to 100 grayscale color? or is just a var from 0 to 100 relative to transparency?

var from 0 to 100 relative to transparency. 0 is transparent and 100 is solid.
The color you "paint" it in photoshop is only a reference. It has no "real" color.

Thats it Im afraid, Im out of ideas now. If I think of anything else, Ill post back.

Some time ago, ShoreVietam did something similar with bones and a home-brewed trace algorithm.
precise_shot.wdl - new version thread
Not surprisingly, the downloads in that thread appear to be dead.

And after looking through the thread, it was bones-dependant.
If you had bones I could help eventually, but without Im stuck.

hmmm due to my version, i cant use anything related to bones.

SOB
so ill try again the alpha channel way.

if put the alpha value
eg.:
25 for arms legs
50 for body
100 for head
to be retrieve by some function that detects the alpha value of the skin..
ok
but how will i paint this values in photoshop since its RGB or CMYK?
will be something like (R=255 + G=255 + R=255) = alpha 100?

Nope, it is just another color ELEMENT (like Red or Green or Blue) that you cant actually see.
R=255, G=255, B=255, A= 100 = Solid White - (like a wall)
R=255, G=255, B=255, A= 50 = See-through White - (like frosted glass)
R=255, G=255, B=255, A= 0 = Invisible White - (like a clear gloss-free window)

I can describe the Photoshopping of the Alpha channel, BUT FIRST make sure
that A6 actually has a function to get the alpha info. I cant find any,
all the A7 functions that can read alpha are apparently new for A7, not in A6.

If you CAN find a function that CAN read the alpha value of a models skin,
let me know and I'll write instructions of how to set up the alpha channel and
paint your body-bits in photoshop.

FOOTNOTE: Alpha is actually 0-255, but is scaled down to 0-100 by 3DGS and photoshop.

i see
i think this one works

pixel_to_vec(vector,var alpha,var format,var pixel);

Im not at home right to test it, but i think it should work!