[imported_hippo]

Is there a way to use GetAbsOrigin on CBaseEntities without getting unresolved external symbol errors?

MSVC tells me that CalcAbsolutePosition cannot be resolved, so I tried including baseentity.cpp, but that gave over 50 errors that were so wretched that there had to be a better way.

GetAbsOrigin isn't virtual so it doesn't seem to be accessible by vfuncs (which is how I access other origin, eyeposition, etc things for players / entities).

I know its possible to use IPlayerInfoManager to get player absolute origins, but there has to be an easy way to get entity origins.

I have searched on google, sourceplugins, hl2coding, and this site before asking this question. Everyone seemed to have no problems accessing GetAbsOrigin, which means that I must be doing something incredibly stupid.

Hippo

[za_bullet]

Not sure what you want to use the vector for or for what you want to get its position, but try this instead

pEntity->GetNetworkable()->GetPVSInfo()->m_vCenter

I use that sometimes and it gets the location of what I want.

Let me know if it helps.

za.

[L. Duke]

I use:

Vector org = pEntity->GetCollideable()->GetCollisionOrigin();

[imported_hippo]

Thanks for the info. I'll try that this weekend and see if it works.

I am trying to set velocities on objects based on the current origin and the end origin. (hence the need for getting the origin of an entity)

Hippo

[awuh0]

You might want to get the current velocity of the entity as well and slowly increasing/decreasing to avoid making things look jerky and laggy.

you can use either

Vector velocity=pEntity->GetUnknown()->GetBaseEntity()->GetLocalVelocity();

or a vfunc

Vector velocity = GetSmoothedVelocity(pEntity->GetUnknown()->GetBaseEntity());

[c0ldfyr3]

Vector velocity=pEntity->GetUnknown()->GetBaseEntity()->GetLocalVelocity();

You shouldnt use that :\

[API]

Why not GetLocalOrigin? Works fine for me.

[c0ldfyr3]

Its a function inside CBaseEntity, so to be safe you shouldn't use any of them. They might work for you to test, but compile and give it to someone else, I dare ya.

[awuh0]

thats why I use the vfunc...