#A shambler quake how to#
#A shambler quake code#

entity field, that way the projectile can still be tied to the player who launched them (for gaining frags and proper obituary messages and what not). I then store the player as the projectile's old owner via a new.

#A shambler quake code#

I usually code a recursive think function for fired projectiles that will assign ownership to the world a small amount of time after a player fires them, to ensure that they won't explode on them upon launch. owner? I have noticed that for fired rockets and grenades to contact the player who fired them, their ownership had to be assigned to world. origin is special in that proper use of it causes projectiles to NOT hit the owning player's bbox as soon as its fired.)When you said. Maybe one of you engine guys knows the connection. Too lazy to dig through the engine source. owner is referenced somewhere in the engine C code. So instead of the bolt being the shambler's 'self.owner', it is now his 'self.bolt'. entity bolt and assigned the model to it. After a lot of testing, I discovered that this was the cause of the projectiles intermitently passing through him. This is in the interest of tracking the bolt across the Shambler's animation frame functions and changing the bolt's frame as well. Turns out that in the shambler's QC file, the bolt of lightning model that spawns overhead when he's casting his magic attack is assigned his. I tested this on QuakeSpasm and ProQuake with the same results, so I deduced this wasn't strictly an engine thing having to do with entity size or whatever. Ever notice how every now and then, seemingly at random, a rocket (or nail) will pass right through him? I actually never noticed this till tonight. Go start up Quake (no mods, just id1), do impulse 9, equip the rocket launcher, and find a Shambler. Interesting Bug #1: Projectiles pass through Shambler This is in the interest of two things:ġ) Fully understand EVERY aspect of the gamecode in EVERY regardĢ) Provide a clean, bug-free, OCD-level organized package of source code to start projects from.Īll deviations from the original code, including improvements, alterations, and bugfixes, are being logged.Īnyways, I've found a few bugs that to my knowledge have not been documented anywhere, so I thought I'd share my findings and my method of correction. So if you climb up steps, he wont be able to aim for you.A little side project of mine right now is digging through every line of id Software's code in progs 1.06 and cleaning up, re-organizing, and fixing any bugs.

Shamblers can only shoot his lightning straight at you, he can't do so when you're above or below him. but there are some areas like the end of E1M3 where you can do this. if you can remember where his spawn point is, time the spawns of the enemies, and just stand at his spwan to instantly kill em. Shamblers will always spawn at the same spot in a map. If there's a Quad or Pentagram of Protection around, you should be saving those for tougher areas involving Shamblers. Sometimes there are areas where he'll spawn in front of your face, by then you should save up enough for the occasion. After that, peek and use the Nail Gun, Super Shotty or Lightning Gun on him until he charges up his attacks. it'll take em a second to charge up his blot attack. They take half the damage from the explosives.Īs many mentioned you have to dance around the Shambler by constantly peek-shooting him.

Playing with that value will affect your dancing flair in a negative way, as expected.Īlso do not use nades or rockets unless it is absolutely necessary to do so. The rerelease version decreases the backspeed to 200 by default for no reason, apparently. Just be sure to set your backspeed to the original value of 400 through the console ('), by typing in cl_backspeed 400 and pressing enter (doing this once is enough, it gets written to the config file permanently, unless you change it again for some reason or another). Otherwise, you can always use SSG in close range, which comes into your hands pretty much everytime within the first map, thus it is almost always available to be your dancing equipment.

The second best option, speedwise, is SNG, if you have it of course, which also lets you keep some distance. If you want to get rid of them quickly (most likely you will, in case of them and vores), use LG - it is best to save your LG ammo for those two anyway.

#A shambler quake how to#

I'm sure you'll figure out how to swing in a short while. Well, the best way is to dance with him, as suggested by the achievement.