Hello Everyone,

I am trying to use the sword demo style of code, from AUM12(I think ) in my game.


It works as so:

When player is in his attack frames, the sword traces from the tip of the blade, to the hilt; and if result!=0 and if you!=null, you.health -= sword power.


it works, but only if im hitting near its x position; not its animated frame position.


how do i set it up so that my enemies will be able to be hit anywhere?

Hope thats descriptive enough


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s69/sdsdinc/SWORDPROBLEMO.png


thanks for you time.

You need to run the instruction 'c_updatehull(me, frame);' where 'frame' is the enemy frame, and 'me' is the enemy pointer. this must run every few frames (not every frame, too slow!). eg:

I looked it up in the manual, and still, i dont get how that command works...

I take it you are using "c_trace" when checking from blade tip to hilt?
Add USE_POLYGON to the c_trace mode flags and I think it will solve the issue.

I've tried use_polygone, doesn't work...

It seems, historically, only polygons from an ENTITY's first frame were detected when using c_trace + USE_POLYGON.

Expanding and contracting the ENTITY's bounding box quickly and properly might work. Of course, the problem might not be fully understood here.

Derived from some version of some manual.

..and served up for no apparent reason.

why is frame defined here?

any other input out there??

Model's bounding box may change when playing
animation. Update the bounding box with
c_setminmax each frame may help.