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[Help] beam entity.

Hi, I have two questions about that :
Im using this [INC] Beam Entities
1) How to set beam life timeout.

2) How to create a point beam.
What I want:
I want to creat similar like this beam in this image:

http://i.imgur.com/L962FYv.jpg

author said when i ask him about it :

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I have no source code.
As I remember, there are two sprites. 1st - beam sprite. I used default laser sprite.
2nd - glow sprite.

Re: [Help] beam entity.

Have you tried this? There's a video preview, so at least one of those functions is probably what you need.

Re: [Help] beam entity.

Thx, But Not exactly what I'm looking for.

Re: [Help] beam entity.

is there an example of an entity to change its Sprite color?
i try rendercolor but not work ?

PHP Code:


		
			
        new entity = create_entity("info_target")
            
            
            entity_set_string( entity, EV_SZ_classname, "dot" );
            entity_set_model(entity, "sprites/glow02.spr")
            entity_set_size(entity, Float:{-3.0,-3.0,-3.0}, Float:{3.0,3.0,3.0} );
            entity_set_int( entity, EV_INT_solid, SOLID_TRIGGER );
            
            set_pev(entity, pev_scale, 0.22)
            
            entity_set_int(entity, EV_INT_rendermode, kRenderTransAdd)
            entity_set_int(entity, EV_INT_renderfx, kRenderFxNone)
            
            entity_set_vector( entity, EV_VEC_rendercolor, {255, 0, 0} );
DispatchSpawn(entity)

Re: [Help] beam entity.

Register think in the beam entity and call remove_entity.
Start the entity as BEAM_ENTPOINT (Beam_PointEntInit). Set start pos to where you want the laser to end and set start entity in laser mine entity.

Re: [Help] beam entity.

I think I made a mistake in the sequence now that its color has changed
Now I want to know How to set beam life timeout?
i found this offset :

Quote:

float m_flBeamLength 173

I tried to minimize it but it did not work!

PHP Code:


		
			
set_pdata_float(get_pdata_cbase(ent, m_pBeam, 5), m_flBeamLength, 1.0 ,4) // ent = tripmine

Re: [Help] beam entity.

I dont understand why the new entity is not compatible with mine angles when i set "origin[1] -= 10.0"?

https://i.imgur.com/DtTXcw9.png

My idea to be a little far away like :

https://imgur.com/a/Ln8yJj0

My code ?

PHP Code:


		
			
        new entity = create_entity("info_target")
    
        entity_set_string( entity, EV_SZ_classname, "dot_glow" );
        entity_set_model(entity, "sprites/glow02.spr")
        entity_set_int( entity, EV_INT_solid, SOLID_TRIGGER );
        
        set_pev(entity, pev_renderfx, kRenderFxNone)
        set_pev(entity, pev_rendermode, kRenderTransAdd)
        set_pev(entity, pev_renderamt, 255.0)
        set_pev(entity, pev_rendercolor, Float:{255.0, 0.0, 0.0}) 
        set_pev(entity, pev_scale, 0.19)
            
        //static Float:norigin[3];
        static Float:vangles[3];

        pev(ent, pev_v_angle, vangles)// ent = tripmine 
        set_pev(entity, pev_v_angle, vangles) 
        
        origin[1] -= 10.0 // i want her to be a little far away
        
        engfunc(EngFunc_SetOrigin, entity, origin);
        
        //DispatchSpawn(entity)
            
                  // spawn beam ent
        RelinkBeam(beam, vecEnd, vecEnd, origin);
        
        set_pev(ent, TRIPMINE_FRACTION_OLD, fraction);

Re: [Help] beam entity.

It depends where you put that entity on the map... If changing origin[1] didnt work there, then origin[2] Will do the job for you (cuz [3] is axis for height)... So the solution should be: detect entity's angle, and based on it - add 10. 0 units to x or y coordinate.. Sorry if i missunderstood your post

Re: [Help] beam entity.

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Originally Posted by JocAnis (Post 2626865)

So the solution should be: detect entity's angle, and based on it - add 10. 0 units to x or y coordinate.. Sorry if i missunderstood your post

Yes, here in this part :

Quote:

pev(ent, pev_v_angle, vangles)// ent = tripmine
set_pev(entity, pev_v_angle, vangles)

origin[1] -= 10.0 // i want her to be a little far away

Re: [Help] beam entity.

By doing just that i dont think you would know if you need to change x or y axis.. Maybe something to do with vectors, velocity.. Idk but i would like to know too, in which way to do that