[Shaman]

This morning I was trying to complete Half-Life 2 for 3rd time and when I saw the snipers (the chapter that you rescue barney from the snipers).
The snipers has something like a laser sight. A beam drawn from the gun to the aimed place. I thought that we can make beam-shooting guns for CS: S.
Here is an image:
[IMG]http://**************.to/i/beamcopy.png[/IMG]
When a player fires, a beam is started to drawn. The beam keeps growing longer till it hits somewhere and when it hits it disappears.
How can I do that? (Maybe it's imposible?!?!)

[dalto]

Look in sdktools_trace.inc. I think this is what you need although I have never used it myself.

[Shaman]

The problem is I don't know anything about entities. I didn't know when I was using AMXMX and I don't know now.
I have that kind of problems. For example; I know PHP, but I suck when it comes to SQL

[pRED*]

Look at the code for hook. That draws a line where you are aiming. It's just a temp entity

[Shaman]

I used the code from HGR, but I realized that I did a stupid mistake. In that code it gives the aiming coordinate, but I need the exact bullet hit coordinate. I will try doing it using bullet_impact.

[sslice]

You could try creating some kind of beam entity and attach it to the player's weapon... though it probably won't be easy.

[pRED*]

Does the hl2sdk include the single player code stuff? You could try find the actual c++ code that made the original..

-e- Yup. have a look in hl2sdk/dlls/hl2_dll/proto_sniper.cpp Has all the code for creating the temp entity beam and moving it. Wouldn't be too hard to create a SM equivalent. You'd have to use tasks or gameframe instead of nextthink though

[Shaman]

Whoa! C++? I don't know how to write extensions. A year ago I tried to make a calculator with C++, but I couldn't I have lots of things to learn.

[Nican]

Originally Posted by Shaman Whoa! C++? I don't know how to write extensions. A year ago I tried to make a calculator with C++, but I couldn't I have lots of things to learn.

You are not alone.

I bought the book "C++ for dummies," but it did not help much D:

[dalto]

Have you tried looking at the laser tag plugin? Isn't that basically what he does in there?