[ot_207]

Originally Posted by Arkshine I don't think, and I don't see anything wrong. Plus, it works fine if you do like my code above. In CBaseEntity *pEntity = CBaseEntity::Instance(ptr->pHit); Instance() returns pent->pvPrivateData; and as comment we can read : get_tr2() will return -1 if not there is not hit. I'm not pro at all but I wondering if the wall is not attributed with a specific index managed by the engine and ptr->pHit would not return 0 in this case.

Ok, will do some tests. I also have seen that there isn't anything wrong.
Edit: Does pent->pvPrivateData really make the difference?

[Arkshine]

Actually, it works lol.

Just tried in TraceAttack, gun position as origin and direction * 8192.0 as end position, and it works.

UTIL_GetGunPosition( Attacker, Origin );
VectorMA( Origin, 8192.0, Direction, EndPos );
        
engfunc( EngFunc_TraceTexture, max( 0, get_tr2( TraceHandle, TR_pHit ) ) , Origin, EndPos, Texture, charsmax( Texture ) );

Tested, whatever it's an entity or not. What is important is to trace the longest line possible.

[ot_207]

Direction meaning? The angles turned into vector? And multiplied by 8192.0 times?

[Arkshine]

What you have to understand is the end point has to be the most far possible from the start point. ( don't know why ). I use 8192.0 because AFAIK it's the max size of a map can be.

TraceAttack was just an example, I've used the Direction to calculate the end point in the direction I shoot.

[ot_207]

So it is important for example.
I want to shoot from position x to y.
It is a good idea to substract those vectors in z vector.
Multiply that vector with 160000.0 then add to the x point saving it as y.
Then trace from x to y?

Code:

PHP Code:

// gunpositon[3]
// endpos[3]
new Float:z[3]
xs_vec_sub(endpos, gunposition, z)
xs_vec_mul_scalar(z, 10000.0, z)
xs_vec_add(gunposition, z, endpos)
TRACE(gunpos, endpos) 


[Arkshine]

Well yes. Though the max size of a map is 8192.0 if I'm right. But you could use any high value I guess > 8192.0. For some reason if the trace is too short it crashes.

[ot_207]

Originally Posted by Arkshine Well yes. Though the max size of a map is 8192.0 if I'm right. But you could use any high value I guess > 8192.0. For some reason if the trace is too short it crashes.

Ok, tested it and it works! Thanks a lot! So the engine had it all along .
I think that what we have spoken here should be added to explained functions. It would be useful for people to know.

[DarthMan]

Originally Posted by Arkshine Well yes. Though the max size of a map is 8192.0 if I'm right. But you could use any high value I guess > 8192.0. For some reason if the trace is too short it crashes.

Hello. Any way to get texture of the entity that I'm actually aiming at and not the ground texture? So even if I look at an entity that is above me, no matter the distance, I'd like to return it's texture type.