Aligning corpses with surfaces

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I noticed that the same alignment problem happens in Portal 2, when you shoot a portal at a slope. So the Source engine is also unable to do it. That's interesting.

I wonder if there are open source car racing games that does this properly.

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UPDATE:


Found out my hax to ignore the _y value was not needed because the "self" in the function used happened to be the corpse that was just spawned, not the real client whose image its of. So altered it to self.owner for the makevectors and other relevent places where needed, and that code does work without destructively altering anything. Silly mistake

Heres another screenshot where it happened to work pretty nicely:

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Once in a while I see an interesting corpse position as in the screenshot....thanks in part to FRikbot.







As for continuing with some code that more or less would have to I guess set the size down to a scale perhaps smaller than player , and I guess give it a movetype_walk and some velocity to make it slide down that sloping arch - probably not possible in the given envoronment..?