Metamod: Umbra Cloud Around Spawning Skulks

[WHO]Them · June 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">while we're waiting for it in 1.1</div> This is by no means an original idea or anything. But on modns.org we got a request for the 1.1 feature where skulks get an umbra cloud when they spawn. This plugin is that feature made available for 1.04 .

<a href='http://forums.modns.org/viewtopic.php?t=186' target='_blank'>UmbraSpawn on forums.modns.org</a>

DarkFrost · June 2003

you guys really are the gods amoungst men, lol 1.04 will be identical to 1.1 when u guys get done with it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Amped1 · June 2003

Ah nice. Very good plug in as usual. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

[WHO]Them · June 2003

1.1 is gonna be awesome. We're just trying to make 1.04 almost as awesome in the meantime <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

DarkFrost · June 2003

lol there isnt any way you could change the weapon sets of the aliens is there <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> j/k

[WHO]Them · June 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkFrost @ Jun 11 2003, 02:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> lol there isnt any way you could change the weapon sets of the aliens is there <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> j/k  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
ummm, depends on the changes really, metamod can do some neat things if you know how it works.

DarkFrost · June 2003

oooooooo really..... :o
well then there is a certain lerk combo id like to try, you may of heard about it, maybe if you frequent the beta thread <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>
but seriously, would meta mod allow you to change a lerks abilities to,
Spike, umbra, spores, primal scream?

OMG if it can

and sadly i dont know how meta mod works :S

i wish i did.

The_MAzTer · June 2003

1.1 gona suck, no mid air jp kills as lerk with bite :-/ and half of custom maps are bit **** then

anyway very nice plugin. Will install it tomorrow <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

That_Annoying_Kid · June 2003

nice

I wonder if LB will put this on NANO?

that would be great

CheesyPeteza · June 2003

Nice. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

[WHO]Them · June 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (That Annoying Kid @ Jun 11 2003, 04:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> nice

I wonder if LB will put this on NANO?

that would be great  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
dunno about that. But he's apparently gonna try out a new one he asked me to make just about an hour ago. Hives that don't have 100% health keep spawning umbra around themselves. So you really need sieges/grenades to take out hives.

If anyone is interested in the hive umbra one (again, not my idea, something that's supposedly gonna be in 1.1 in some fashion), that's on modns as well.

CheesyPeteza · June 2003

How about a simple fix to the bug with the hive healing itself? They only heal themselves 2 hp at a time instead of 20.

[WHO]Them · June 2003

heh, okeedokee, i can do that

[WHO]Them · June 2003

I'll probably have it ready in about an hour.

Asylum-Skitzo · June 2003

Is that a bug? I havent seen that changed in the ns 1.1 changes.

Bry · June 2003

wow great plugin

Just added to my server thanks

Roobubba · June 2003

tried and tested, I'll see how it affects server balance tonight (along with the hive healing, which also works btw <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>)

Keep up the good work fellas!

Roo

[WHO]Them · June 2003

just a heads up.

I have been informed by Lightning Blue that his server has started crashing a lot since he loaded both the UmbraSpawn and HiveUmbra plugins, I'm still trying to figure out what it is. If anyone has any insights to exactly what's happening as it's crashing it would help to know.

[WHO]Them · June 2003

I've spotted a few cases where hiveumbra will crash that are still mysterious to me. I would recommend that nobody run these 2 plugins until I've found the problem.

[WHO]Them · June 2003

I think this is a problem with my version of GCC, are there any windows admins having any problems at all ?

CheesyPeteza · June 2003

I've had this running all day on debian and the server only crashed once. That was after I had to unload umbraspawn, NSStatusBar and HiveHealFix for a clan war, then when I changed map it crashed shortly after. (I think it might have been when the first skulk spawned).

[WHO]Them · June 2003

Yeah, the main crash bug I've spotted so far on my linux compiles is that it always segfaults right as it's spawning it's first umbra after a non-serverstart loading of the plugin.

However this problem doesn't exist in the windows version at all. Which is confusing me to high hell.

clamatius · June 2003

Linux typically notices faster if you're doing something dodgy with memory (like accessing deleted variables) than Windows. Which is usually good - it means the program stops near where the problem is rather than at some random point in the future.

[WHO]Them · June 2003

The problem is that I've looked over the plugin and isolated the crash to when I actually spawn the umbra cloud. And I don't do any dynamic memory management in there at all. It's all done in CREATE_NAMED_ENTITY which isn't under my control :/

[WHO]Them · June 2003

hmmm, a new area of exploration has presented itself. It turns out that it isn't the creation of the umbra entity that's causing it, but apparently the creation of the Umbra's special effect cloud. Guess it's time to tweak it

That_Annoying_Kid · June 2003

Keep us posted, I'm anxious to find out how it goes!

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

[WHO]Them · June 2003

Well, I've gotten further along, but after about 4 hours of working on this today I still can't quite get it right.

I've gotten it to the point where you can unload and reload the plugin and the hive will still spawn an umbra correctly 1 time. But that umbra never gets cleaned up and if you unload the plugin again then the server crashes.

So somehow the handling of entities changes if the plugin is loaded mid-level. I might try doing changelevel only, but for now I'm quitting

voogru · June 2003

Instead of spawning the original umbra cloud, Make a new entity with a Think, spawn it like:

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>
edict_t *pSpawn;
pSpawn = CREATE_NAMED_ENTITY(MAKE_STRING("info_target"));
if (pSpawn != NULL)
{
MDLL_Spawn( pSpawn );
pSpawn->v.classname = MAKE_STRING("who_umbra");
pSpawn->v.origin = SomeOrigin;
pSpawn->v.nexthink = gpGlobals->time + 0.1;
//Put nifty effects in here.
}
</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Then in DispatchThink check the classname and look for "who_umbra". check for players in range and apply pev->iuser4 |= (1<<21); (iuser4 is a bitwise operation). Make sure in dispatchthink to put nextthink otherwise it will only think once.

Last things you need to do, is check if the player is in range, and remove umbra after they are no longer in range or the entity is gone.

[WHO]Them · June 2003

if I'm gonna fake it then there's really no point in using an entity at all, startframe will do my dirty work :/

[WHO]Them · June 2003

ok guys, I don't have a true fix for the problem. But I've altered the plugin so that it should work.

I made the umbra creation a little less "crash happy" and made the plugins only loadable/unloadable at server start. I know this is a pain in the butt for some of you. But I honestly have no idea why the hell this umbra creation works when the plugin is loaded at server start but refuses to work when loaded any other time.

<a href='http://them.clanwho.com/downloads/UmbraSpawn_v1.01.zip' target='_blank'>http://them.clanwho.com/downloads/UmbraSpawn_v1.01.zip</a>
<a href='http://them.clanwho.com/downloads/HiveUmbra_v1.01.zip' target='_blank'>http://them.clanwho.com/downloads/HiveUmbra_v1.01.zip</a>

That_Annoying_Kid · June 2003

downloaded and installed

*TAK huggles [WHO]Them* <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Metamod: Umbra Cloud Around Spawning Skulks

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