[Spearhead] Opposite team + hide = fake avatar

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:05 am

Hi,

Been trying to port a mod of mine to Spearhead and discovered one thing - if you hide a player, the opposite team will see an avatar of their own team above his head, which makes hiding him pointless. E.g. if you hide an axis player, the allies will not see the player but they will see the allied avatar above him and their crosshairs will turn green when they look at him. This happens in Spearhead only.

Just thought I would share the (bug) discovery.

Rookie One

mefy · Post by **mefy** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:25 pm

I don't understand why you're having this problem because in Freeze Tag I'm hiding players without any bugs like that. The avatar only shows to a player's own teammates.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:46 pm

Have you tried it in Spearhead? This is true, this bug has ruined a whole mod idea. Or at least made porting it to the expansion packs impossible.

mefy · Post by **mefy** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:15 am

Yes it runs in all versions. Maybe you should post your code.

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:37 am

actually it does happen, when i paly freezetag and am spectating someone or i see someonebeing spectated i see little avatars zooming around them. So the player model is hidden but not the avatar.

But this is odd, or intentional, because i see this in AA too.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:42 pm

Yeah, those avatars do appear in Freeze Tag. But the thing is, in Spearhead this happens for the opposite team. In my case it was an axis player with an allied avatar above his head. I just hide him, I don't do anything special.

This is a part of the FAKK code responsible for the hide command:

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inline void Entity::hideModel
	(
	void
	)

	{
	edict->s.renderfx |= RF_DONTDRAW;
	if ( getSolidType() <= SOLID_TRIGGER )
		{
		edict->svflags |= SVF_NOCLIENT;
		}
	}

And this is the SVF_NOCLIENT flag definition:

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#define	SVF_NOCLIENT			      (1<<0)	// don't send entity to clients, even if it has effects

This made me think this would make a hidden player not play footstep sounds, so I used the svflags "+broadcast" command just in case. Can't see any connection between this and the way the client game library does its team checks.