Has anybody had any progress on hit boxes. If you don't know what these are, here is a short description:

This is where the player can have different reactions or lose different amounts of health, when hit in different areas of the body.

I thought you could use ent_vertex somehow in this, but then you would have to know which vertex's are on which parts of the body, which would take ages! Anybody think of another way of doing this?

The vertex number is indicated by MED on selecting a vertex. Example:

I know, but that would take ages, working out where every vertex was on the body. Surly there must be a quicker way.

If you're talking about bullets rather than fists, then you might be able to work out vague hitboxes this way:

First, when it hits your player, check the height of the bullet (there should be some way of doing that...).
Then all you have to do is compare it with the height of the player. Eg:

If(bullet_height<=my.z) //below centre/waist
{HIT_IN_LEGS();}
if(bullet_height<=my.z+(my.max_z/1.5))&&(bullet_height>my.z) //above waist, below shoulders
{HIT_IN_CHEST();}
if(bullet_height>my.z+(my.max_z/1.5) //above shoulders
{HIT_IN_HEAD();}

The only problem would be making sure that you know the bullet height (I haven't messed around with bullets much as I'm working on a fighting game).
Hope that's of use,
Cheers,
Keith

This is the way I made it:

DEFINE HEAD_VERTEX,SKILL1;
DEFINE BODY_VERTEX,SKILL2;
DEFINE L_ARM_VERTEX,SKILL3;
DEFINE R_ARM_VERTEX,SKILL4;
DEFINE L_LEG_VERTEX,SKILL5;
DEFINE R_LEEG_VERTEX,SKILL6;

ACTION ENEMY{
MY.HEAD_VERTEX = 122; // or whatever you want
MY.BODY_VERTEX = 213;
MY.L_ARM_VERTEX = 31;
MY.R_ARM_VERTEX = 13;
MY.L_Leg_VERTEX = 3;
MY.R_LEG_VERTEX = 451;
...}

SKILL TEMP_1 { }
SKILL TEMP_2 { }
SKILL TEMP_3 { }
SKILL TEMP_4 { }
SKILL TEMP_5 { }
SKILL TEMP_6 { }
SKILL TEMP_7 { }
SKILL TEMP_8 { }
SKILL TEMP_9 { }
SKILL TEMP_10 { }
SKILL TEMP_11 { }
SKILL TEMP_12 { }

Put this in your Bullet event:
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_1,YOU,YOUR.HEAD_VERTEX);
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_2,YOU,YOUR.BODY_VERTEX);
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_3,YOU,YOUR.L_ARM_VERTEX);
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_4,YOU,YOUR.R_ARM_VERTEX);
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_5,YOU,YOUR.L_LEG_VERTEX);
VEC_FOR_VERTEX(TEMP_6,YOU,YOUR.R_LEG_VERTEX);
TEMP_7 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_1);
TEMP_8 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_2);
TEMP_9 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_3);
TEMP_10 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_4);
TEMP_11 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_5);
TEMP_12 = VEC_DIST (MY.POS,TEMP_6);
IF (TEMP_7 < TEMP_8 && TEMP_7 < TEMP_9 && TEMP_7 < TEMP_10 && TEMP_7 < TEMP_11 && TEMP_7 < TEMP_12){
HEAD_DAMAGE();}
IF (TEMP_8 < TEMP_7 && TEMP_8 < TEMP_9 && TEMP_8 < TEMP_10 && TEMP_8 < TEMP_11 && TEMP_8 < TEMP_12){
BODY_DAMAGE();}
IF (TEMP_9 < TEMP_7 && TEMP_9 < TEMP_8 && TEMP_9 < TEMP_10 && TEMP_9 < TEMP_11 && TEMP_9 < TEMP_12){
ARM_DAMAGE();}
IF (TEMP_10 < TEMP_7 && TEMP_10 < TEMP_8 && TEMP_10 < TEMP_9 && TEMP_10 < TEMP_11 && TEMP_10 < TEMP_12){
ARM_DAMAGE();}
IF (TEMP_11 < TEMP_7 && TEMP_11 < TEMP_8 && TEMP_11 < TEMP_9 && TEMP_11 < TEMP_10 && TEMP_11 < TEMP_12){
LEG_DAMAGE();}
IF (TEMP_12 < TEMP_7 && TEMP_12 < TEMP_8 && TEMP_12 < TEMP_9 && TEMP_12 < TEMP_10 && TEMP_12 < TEMP_11){
LEG_DAMAGE();}

hope there are no typos there, but should work oh and vec_for_vertex is current Beta so wait 2 weeks and you'll have your Hitboxes.