[Kingnugget]

I am basically trying to create a grenade on a player death or client command and make it explode.
But this raises a basic question of creating objects in a game.

I found some code that looked like it might do the job for a smoke grenade, but I got loads of errors.

ParticleSmokeGrenade *pSmoke = dynamic_cast<ParticleSmokeGrenade*>( CreateEntityByName(PARTICLESMOKEGRENADE_ENTITYNAME) );
if ( pSmoke )
{
	Vector vForward;
	AngleVectors( GetLocalAngles(), &vForward );
	vForward.z = 0;
	VectorNormalize( vForward );

	pSmoke->SetLocalOrigin( GetLocalOrigin() + vForward * 100 );
	pSmoke->SetFadeTime(25, 30);	// Fade out between 25 seconds and 30 seconds.
	pSmoke->Activate();
	pSmoke->SetLifetime(30);
	pSmoke->FillVolume();
}

This gave me the error message (first of many): error C2065: 'ParticleSmokeGrenade' : undeclared identifier.
I added #include "particle_smokegrenade.h" but then got the error "..\..\dlls\baseentity.h(759) : error C2065: 'CPredictableId' : undeclared identifier".
Adding other include headers from this point spiralled down into loads errors.

I am missing something basis?
Are the any examples about for spawning objects into a game?

[Kingnugget]

Still working on it, a little progress, very little.

I can get this code to compile

CBaseEntity *weapon = (CBaseEntity *)CreateEntityByName("weapon_grenade");

But I then get a linking error for CreateEntityByName().

unresolved external symbol "class CBaseEntity * __cdecl CreateEntityByName(char const *,int)"

I can see the function prototype for CreateEntityByName in baseentity.h.
When I add baseentity.cpp to my project I get a lot of compilation errors from baseentity.cpp.

Is this usual or am I doing something wrong in my project?? I'm running VC++6

[vancelorgin]

Search works wonders.

[Kingnugget]

I've had a look, there's a lovely thread talking about including CBaseEntity, but for player info that's working already.
I couldn't find any threads that talk about resolving linking errors or creating new entities like a grenade.