[otc6-devs] changes, info about mdc-file-format, orange deagle in 3person

[R.Fries <te...@rf...>]

hey,
i have found a descreption of the mdc-model-file-format:
http://themdcfile.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/

the next link is the google-cache entry, because for most gamespy-links you 
need an account there
http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:WopyCJePlZEJ:www.planetwolfenstein.com/themdcfile/MDC_File_Format.pdf+idpc+mdc+format&hl=de&gl=de&ct=clnk&cd=2

now i know why i could not match it to the md3-fileformat.

for the model-designers: look at the original silencer.md3 in the et-pak0.pk3. 
You have to use the same position, and you should do so. Then you can do 
yourself a quick test how your weapon is looking in 3personview in otc6. For 
the colt(a pistol) copy it over the ss_colt.mdc. You loose the animations, 
but you can see it now in the hands of the player. Until you have no shader 
specifyed it will be drawn in color orange. I have done this with "name"s 
deagle, and after some rotations and moves it looks good now. Link to pic 
will be posted in the tce-forum.

Changes in game are now: 
shooting range is taken from ammoTable and the colt is shooting less than 
100mtr. Shooting range and damage is taken from the ammoTable and its the 
same for aimed/not-aimed shooting. The flash got no more smoke, only 
fire-pyro for the explosion and if the player is in the flash-damage-range he 
is 1.5 seconds blinded plus  some more time, how much he could be damaged. 
The little flash-damage is still subtracted from the players health, but some 
told me it might be only done if the player is very close at the 
flash-explosion. In game-play shows sometimes very different 
flash-damage-effects and it seems to be a question how the map was designed. 
You might have noticed such things in tce(test) too, throw a nade into a room 
and get flashed through the wall too. In oasis in the tunnel from allies to 
axis is a wooden horse/donkey trailer. A flash behind this wooden thing has 
very small damage(this damage is not what the player might get, its the in 
game calculation of the impact from one entity to another).
For testing the ammo-sharing, i have put the 2 mp's to use the same ammoslots.

bad things: the hit-boxes are really too big, they box of the head has the 
same values like the body. I did only a quick look about it and its by far 
not so crowded like the weapons-specific stuff was. If we now have to modify 
range, damage, spread, ammo-sharing, weapon-model - its all done in one 
place. After the "bug" with the lost aiming of the colt (i disabled some 
debug-flags to have no messages for the force-otc6-test-server), i think 
about doing the registering of the weapons with a simple flag in the 
ammotable too and not hardcode it into the mod.
weapon-spread is disabled at the moment to get a look about the accuracy of 
the shooting for different weapons.
lol - you can now even do leaning if in prone....  did not notice that we 
enabled it when we enabled the shooting in lean-mode.

enough at the moment,
kind regards, test-dr
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Ruediger Fries, te...@rf...