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Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: Amxbot -** 07-12-2004

What I mean, is that if you call GetEntityIllum() on a player edict, it works. BUT, if you call GetEntityIllum() on a bot edict, it returns 0. This is why bot coders have to be cautious around this issue. If they want to retrieve a bot's illumination value, they must call GetEntityIllum() on another edict than the bot's own edict. This is why we make dummy entities follow bots around when they walk (since calling GetEntityIllum() on these entities do work).

Anyway, it was an old bug of the HL engine, but perhaps it's been fixed now by the Valve guys. I haven't checked. Can you confirm the behaviour I'm saying here, or does it work differently ?

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Pierre-Marie Baty Roi de France Status: Offline Posts: 5,049 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 46°43'60N 0°43'0W 0.187A	Re: Amxbot - 07-12-2004 What I mean, is that if you call GetEntityIllum() on a player edict, it works. BUT, if you call GetEntityIllum() on a bot edict, it returns 0. This is why bot coders have to be cautious around this issue. If they want to retrieve a bot's illumination value, they must call GetEntityIllum() on another edict than the bot's own edict. This is why we make dummy entities follow bots around when they walk (since calling GetEntityIllum() on these entities do work). Anyway, it was an old bug of the HL engine, but perhaps it's been fixed now by the Valve guys. I haven't checked. Can you confirm the behaviour I'm saying here, or does it work differently ? RACC home - Bots-United: beer, babies & bots (especially the latter) "Learn to think by yourself, else others will do it for you."