Impulse commands

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[Orion]

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Man am I getting frustrated!

It didn't work. Still won't compile.

Anyway, I was thinking and tinkering. I thought it would be better if you lost health for picking up a backpack. A penalty for all the goodies. So I tried some coding on my own:


PLAYER BACKPACKS

===============================================================================
*/

void() BackpackTouch =
{
local string s;
local float best, old, new;
local entity stemp;
local float acount;
local float b_switch;

self.touch=health_touch;
self.healamount = -25;
if (self.health <= 0)
return;

if (deathmatch == 4)
if (other.invincible_time > 0)
return;

I added the code in bold.

The good news is it worked. When I grab the backpack I lost 25 health.
Bad news is if I died I wouldn't respawn. I'd just lie there on the ground dead.

How do I get to respawn?

[scar3crow]

I'm not a coder, but in my dabbling, I have found that if your health goes below 1, and it isn't dealt by T_damage or some sort (anyone can correct me on this I know), it doesn't perform a proper death.

Instead of just doing a negative heal amount, you need to put in the backpack's touch function a damage call to whoever is picking it up. Take a look at the code for weapons and see how they damage things, find the specific line, and try applying similar to the backpack touch.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

What scar3crow said. Also what the iD source code says. T_Damage and T_RadiusDamage should be the only functions used to do damage to the player.

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Ok, got it.
All I needed to do was add:

T_Damage (other, self, self, 5);

In (void() BackpackTouch =) to do 5 damage.

I have another question.
You know how you lose a frag when you fall to your death?
How can that be removed?
I looked for a (self.frags = self.frags - 1; ) in (void() PlayerPostThink =) in client.qc where the code is for the falling damage, but I didn't see it.

[Sajt]

I think that happened in the ClientObituary function (bottom of client.qc)

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OK, found it. Thanks.