Help! Scrags dont attack

[r00k]

Oddly, I've found a bug in my engine. I know its the engine cause I am using stock progs.dat.
plus ive tested with my november version. Which i forked and added protocol 666 to.
If i load up e1m3 the scrags just hover around me and never attack. Any ideas?

Edit: ogres dont attack niether, though the Hell Knight and the zombies do.

Edit2: Ok something is weird. If I load, -game ITSDEMO (for example havent tried the missionpaks) and then load up
map e1m3 all the monsters act like normal maybe its a cfg problem....

[Spike]

monsters not attacking sounds like the tracelines to see if the player is actually visible are not impacting on the player. you'll see a similar effect with noclip. monsters will know to attack you but won't think they can hit you so they just run around and don't shoot.

[r00k]

ya thats what i was diggn thru. I only changed the dclipnodes to mclipnodes for sv_move in traceline.
Reverting back didnt help

[frag.machine]

I'd suggest to grab vanilla progs source and place a handful of dprint()'s in key points of ai.qc and combat.qc (specially FindTarget()). This may give some hint about what's wrong.

[r00k]

[frag.machine]

If trace_fraction == 1 when sitting in front a monster then you have something really f*cked up in the engine side.

[r00k]

I think i got it fixed, someting in world.c I just copied the world.c from the stable into the beta... but that doesnt help me understand! :S

[Spike]

world.c is indeed where the bulk of the traceline code is...

[frag.machine]

Since apparently you isolated the problem in one single source file, applying a diff between the broken code and the working one is the next logical step to nail the bug.

[r00k]

yes, i might be too pragmatic.
I used the november stable exe by accident.
copied over, without a total rebuild.
so i waaas getting a false positive, as th e nov exe was immune..

BUT

i have a MARCH version post 666 protocol that doesnt have the bug.

digging.


man i shouldnt drink when i work on this kinda shiznit

i'm just a laymen that like to swing the axe, and sometimes my axe gets stuck in a tree-stump

that or my subconscious is creating new threads to awake this forum on a daily basis :O

[Spike]

[r00k]

[r00k]

ok, the world is sane again.

I had a 'culled' field in the edict_t struct, which was really not required.
REmoving it, fixed the bug, and kept my hair intact.

Sheez! Now i can go back and play Sock's new map again....