Point Crosshair at Wall, get texture name?

[Baker]

[Spike]

Look at alias lighting code. It does a downwards trace, finds the surface, figures out the lightmap position, and uses that.
Well you don't care about the lightmap, only the texture. Its a bit simpler that way.

[mh]

For any arbitrary direction have a look at what happens when you shoot a surface. It should be (relatively) straightforward from there.

[andrewj]

[Baker]

[frag.machine]

[Spike]

[mh]

The thing though is that the lightpoint functions only trace downwards whereas I get the impression that Baker wants it in any arbitrary direction (fnarr fnarr).

[Spike]

if by trace downwards, you mean:
end[0] = point[0];
end[1] = point[1];
end[2] = point[2] - 2048;

then yes, it traces downwards.

[Baker]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

This thread was awesome!!!!!

About every single of scrap of info in this thread was helpful.

[And I kind of learned a lot more about how collisions work in the process.]

[Baker]

[metlslime]

[frag.machine]

[mh]

[Baker]