MoHAA Mapping
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I checked that out, and if I spawn a trigger around a player with 'spawnflags 128' ("damage"), parm.other is the Player object of the shooter (or basher) after a 'waittill trigger'. It seems that you can 'glue' a trigger_multiple to a Player, but not 'bind' it, which is fine. I think it would be pretty impossible to make the trigger_multiple exactly match the hitbox of the player since it isn't square, but that doesn't matter too much since you'd want to use 'isalive' to determine whether the player was killed anyway.dcoshea wrote:Can anyone tell us how to find out who killed a player? You can obviously see it come up as text on your screen, but is there any way to determine it via script other than by using an external program? Perhaps by using a trigger_multiple that responds to bullets - I'm not sure what parm.other is for such a trigger when a bullet hits it, would it point to the Player object of the shooter?
Those events will need to be filtered out. They could potentially cause high CPU load if lots of shots are being fired, I guess!Code: Select all
//
// bullet_detect_init -
//
// Call this thread once for each player. self points to the Player object
// we wish to monitor.
//
bullet_detect_init:
local.trigger = spawn trigger_multiple origin local.player.origin setthread bullet_detect_trigger spawnflags 128 // DAMAGE
local.trigger setsize ( -32 -32 0) ( 32 32 96) // I think the bounding box for the player is actually ( -16 -16 0) ( 16 16 96), but with that size, not all bullets were detected, probably because the 'glue'ing of the trigger to the player isn't perfect and the trigger is probably not always completely aligned with the player, hence a margin around the player is needed
local.trigger glue self // attach trigger to player
local.trigger.player = self // so setthread thread can work out which player the trigger is attached to
end
//
// bullet_detect_trigger -
//
// Called when the trigger_multiple glued to a player is damaged.
//
bullet_detect_trigger:
local.player = self.player // the player who this trigger is attached to
local.shooter = parm.other // the player who fired the bullet
if (isalive local.player) {
if (local.player == local.shooter) {
iprintln_noloc "Player " local.player.entnum " fired/bashed with his weapon" // or injured himself with his own grenade
} else {
iprintln_noloc "Player " local.shooter.entnum " shot at player " local.player.entnum
}
} else {
if (local.player == local.shooter) {
iprintln_noloc "Player " local.player.entnum " killed himself" // or possibly was firing at the same moment he got killed by another player
} else {
iprintln_noloc "Player " local.shooter.entnum " killed player " local.player.entnum
}
}
end
At the time when the player was hit, you just find out the player's origin and the shooter's origin and spawn a camera at the shooter's origin looking at the player's origin. You can get the shooter's position to find out if they are crouching or standing and adjust the location of the camera up by the height of their eyes. I'm not sure if it's possible to find out if they're leaning, and which way, and of course it won't have the HUD of the shooter, but otherwise it'll be pretty close to being what the shooter's view was, I think.omniscient wrote:even if we can tell who hit them, how do we get what THEY saw on theyre screen? i would think that would be that hardest part.
) that, in conjunction with the (unfinished code) I posted on TMT which can get information about a player's weapon, you could display the name of the weapon that the player was killed by, as people sometimes wonder about that kind of thing. This would depend on checking what weapon the "shooter" is holding when the player dies, so in the case of the player being killed by a grenade it wouldn't quite work, since the "shooter" could have changed away from grenades to a gun by the time the player dies. I guess the message could say something like "Your killer is currently holding a BAR" rather than "You were killed with a BAR" since the latter could be wrong 
in advance.Doesn't mohaa does that automatically? It for example says 'jv_map was machinegunned by a machinegunner in the left foot'you could display the name of the weapon that the player was killed by
or 'a machinegunner was sniped by jv_map in the head' Yesjv_map wrote:I didn't read all of the interesting posts, so this comment might sound incredibly stupid... hence a
Doesn't mohaa does that automatically? It for example says 'jv_map was machinegunned by a machinegunner in the left foot'you could display the name of the weapon that the player was killed by
I mean display the exact weapon name like "BAR" or "KAR98 Sniper".I thought figuring out who killed the player was one of the basics?small_sumo wrote:Can someoen help me with my code from the last page, dont loose sight of the basics dudes.
That's probably not hard, I guess, but it's not really kill cam if you just make the player who died have a 3rd person perspective of their dead corpse for a few secondsAll I need is some code that makes the player when dead to setthread suchnsuch and in that I will use some code to force 3rdperson for a few seconds then revert back, that should do it.
Is that really what you want to do? Or did you mean you want it to be 3rd person on the shooter, not the person who died?Yep thats all I want I dont like the look up and spin around thing I would rather justdie and then see third person of self, I think it would look better.dcoshea wrote:I thought figuring out who killed the player was one of the basics?small_sumo wrote:Can someoen help me with my code from the last page, dont loose sight of the basics dudes.
Anyway I see you said:
That's probably not hard, I guess, but it's not really kill cam if you just make the player who died have a 3rd person perspective of their dead corpse for a few secondsAll I need is some code that makes the player when dead to setthread suchnsuch and in that I will use some code to force 3rdperson for a few seconds then revert back, that should do it.
Regards,
David
3rd person of yourself? Aww thats boring, and after all the work I went to of figuring out how you determine who shot yousmall_sumo wrote:Yep thats all I want I dont like the look up and spin around thing I would rather justdie and then see third person of self, I think it would look better.
I'll have a think about the best way of doing 3rd person on yourself when you die.:):)