detecting if player is runing

[Nahuel]

[mankrip]

Without some extension like CSQC, probably not.

Maybe you can check the value from self.movement (which only works in some engines), and see if it matches the velocity for the running. This won't work if the running speed cvars have been modified.

[Nahuel]

[Spike]

I'm not really trying to troll... but who out there actually uses +speed (as opposed to always-run)?
does it actually make sense to try to detect it?
ssqc has no way to distinguish between +speed and merely setting cl_forwardspeed to 400 (aka: always-run) or so.

The evil way:
alias +speed +button5
alias -speed -button5

[Baker]

Check onground flag and check velocity > 200 (or so depending on what you expect) ?

Sure this doesn't check the button, but if the player is pressing the run button and forward while standing in a corner facing the corner, is he actually running?

[Does QuakeC get to know "wish velocity" [desired speed client sends to server?]

[frag.machine]

[Spike]

"Does QuakeC get to know "wish velocity" [desired speed client sends to server?]"
.movement is exactly that.
not fantastically different from velocity, but doesn't get clipped by sv_maxspeed, has lower latency, and works even if they're stupid enough to be running into a wall.

[r00k]

[frag.machine]

[Spike]

.movement is a dp extension.

[r00k]

ack note toself add .movement extention

[drm_wayne]

afaik p0x qcv1.06 addons have this feature in the footsteps, if you run the play faster...

[leileilol]

I believe the p0x method is dropping entities and comparing their vector lengths with the current player origin.