Falling damage

[Rawing]

I've looked a bit into EV_FALL_***, which makes you take damage when falling down and hitting the ground. What I'd like to do is that you lose more hp the longer the fall is. I have played around with it but I can't make it work

[Silicone_Milk]

Cant give you exact directions since I dont have the source code at hand right now but the way I would do something like this is to take a peek at the physics for a bit.

I think last time I was messing with motion it was in the pmove code. That code checks to see if you're in water, on a surface, etc... iirc. Put in a small chunk of code that sets a shared variable (can be accessed by the EV_FALL_**** code and pmove) to be the value of say, "(distance between last solid surface and current position) all divided by 3" so this shared variable will be a third of the distance fallen.

In EV_FALL just replace the amount of damage being applied with the shared variable.

Probably not the most elegant solution but I just pulled it out of my ass. Try it. See if it works the way you want it to. Sorry I couldnt be more specific about what I'm thinking.

[MKJ]

isnt that already in there tho? that is, you dont always suffer 10hp damage; smaller drops take away smaller amount of health.

logically, one could conclude that the calculation is already in there but capped at 10. removing the cap should do it, no?

[Silicone_Milk]

is it already in there? I thought it was a constant damage.

If it is, removing the cap would be so much easier than what I was thinking.

[Rawing]

there's one function deciding whether to use EV_FALL_MEDIUM or EV_FALL_FAR by checking how great the distance is and a second one that sets the damage to 5 if EV_FALL_MEDIUM or to 10 if EV_FALL_FAR

[Rawing]

been playing around with this the last days, but I'm too stupid to make it
how can I set up a variable that is both known in bg_pmove AND g_active?

[^misantropia^]

Depends. Is this a server-side only mod?

[Rawing]

It's supposed to become a standalone some day

[^misantropia^]

So both client and server side.

1. Add a field to pmove_t
2. Search for Pmove() in game/g_active.c and set your field before said function is called
3. Process it in game/bg_pmove.c

Since bg_pmove.c is also used on the client (in cgame/cg_predict.c), you need to either supply it client-side or decide on some magic value - like zero - that tells bg_pmove.c to not do anything.

[Rawing]

so, bg_public.h: int fallingdamage;
g_active: there's no pmove() in there, is it?? all I can find is like "pmove_t *pm", "ent->client->ps.pmove_framecount", "Pmove (&pm);", ...

[^misantropia^]

Pmove(&pm) is the function call I meant.

[Rawing]

Pmove isn't even called there. It's just switch(event), case EV_FALL_FAR, damage=10, g_damage()

[^misantropia^]

I already spelled it out for you. I suggest you apply comprehension.