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how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

use if (pPlayer->v.oldbuttons & IN_ATTACK) (or IN_RELOAD) sometimes doesn't work correctly (eg, when the player has no ammo in clip but still pressing the mouse)

anyone has a better idea ? thanks.

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

Checking which animation they are playing?

botman

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

yes, that would work. FoxBot does this (it's a TFC bot). The source code is available so you might want to give it a look :)

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

I've tried this myself but it doesn't always work. With my bots in SvenCoop I tried checking if the bots animation was the ACT_RELOAD animation, but no animations had that set as the animation activity... guess it depends on what MOD you use.

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

for reloading, i guess you can simply check if a reload button is pressed, and then set a timer so you know the 'animation' is being played. it probably depends per mod, but hence i bet the avarage time taken to reload is 1 to 5 seconds (depending on the gun).

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

@Cheeseh:
that's not what FoxBot does. FoxBot hooks the pfnPlaybackEvent() to check for player animations. To my knowledge this function is 100% reliable.

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

I beg your pardon ?
...from foxbot:

Code:

void pfnPlaybackEvent(int flags, const edict_t *pInvoker, unsigned short eventindex, float delay,

   float *origin, float *angles, float fparam1,float fparam2, int iparam1, int iparam2, int bparam1, int bparam2)

{

   if (debug_engine) 

   {

           fp=fopen("bot.txt","a");

           fprintf(fp,"pfnPlaybackEvent: %d %x %d %f (%f %f %f) (%f %f %f) %f %f %d %d %d %d\n",

                   flags, 

                   pInvoker,

                   eventindex,

                   delay,

                   (*(Vector *)origin).x,

                   (*(Vector *)origin).y,

                   (*(Vector *)origin).z,

                   (*(Vector *)angles).x,

                   (*(Vector *)angles).y,

                   (*(Vector *)angles).z,

                   fparam1,

                   fparam2,

                   iparam1,

                   iparam2,

                   bparam1,

                   bparam2

                   ); 

           fclose(fp); 

           //delay=delay+2;

   }

   if(mr_meta) RETURN_META(MRES_HANDLED);

   (*g_engfuncs.pfnPlaybackEvent)(flags, pInvoker, eventindex, delay, origin, angles, fparam1, fparam2, iparam1, iparam2, bparam1, bparam2);

}

but I don't know whether this is good:

here I'm catching CurWeapon message sent to ALL clients (not just bots), and when ammo decreased means a bullet has fired:

Code:

bool CClient::MessageWrite(void *p) {

   static int iState, iId;



   int iMsgType = g_pServer->GetCurMsgType();

   int iMsgState = g_pServer->GetCurMsgState();



   if (iMsgType == g_General.GetUserMsgId("CurWeapon")) {

      if (iMsgState == 0)

         iState = *(int *)p; // get the state of the current weapon

      else if (iMsgState == 1)

         iId = *(int *)p; // get the weapon ID of current weapon

      else if (iMsgState == 2) {

         int iClip = *(int *)p; // get the ammo currently in the clip for this weapon

         if (iId >= 0 && iId < MAX_WEAPONS) {

            // Ammo amount decreased? Must have fired a bullet...

            if (iId == m_iCurrentWeaponId && iClip < m_rgAmmoInClip[iId])

               m_flLastShootTime = gpGlobals->time; // remember the last bullet time

            m_rgAmmoInClip[iId] = iClip;

            if (iState != 0)

               m_iCurrentWeaponId = iId;

         }

      }

and I use this to see if this client is shooting:

Code:

class CClient

{

public:

   .........

   inline bool   IsShooting(void)          { return m_flLastShootTime + 0.5 > gpGlobals->time; }

Re: how to see if the player is "actually" shooting/reloading

eh? well, that changed, then.

I am positive they DID use pfnPlaybackEvent() and I recall Tom (RedFox) explaining me over there at botman's why it was just what I wanted and how to use this function to hook for various player animations.