Get mins and maxs of entity's current bounding box

[Sor]

Strange that no one has proposed it earlier but Spearhead has 'getmins' and 'getmaxs' commands for the Entity class which returns
the minimum and maximum setsize options respectively. This is because the original 'setsize' command only sets vectors so in AA we'd
have to do something like this (Elgan's algorithm by the way) to get the values again:

GetBBox local.object:

    if (local.object == NIL && self != NULL)
        local.object = self
    else if (local.object == NIL && self == NULL)
        end


    local.fwd = waitthread getbound 1 ( 1 0 0 ) local.object
    local.bwd = waitthread getbound 0 ( 1 0 0 ) local.object


    local.right = waitthread getbound 1 ( 0 1 0 ) local.object
    local.left = waitthread getbound 0 ( 0 1 0 ) local.object


    local.up = waitthread getbound 1 ( 0 0 1 ) local.object
    local.down = waitthread getbound 0 ( 0 0 1 ) local.object
        
    local.BBox[0] = ( -local.bwd -local.left -local.down )
    local.BBox[1] = ( local.fwd local.right local.up )


end local.BBox


getbound local.dir local.vector local.model:


    local.item = spawn script_origin origin local.model.origin
    local.item.angles = local.model.angles
    local.item setsize ( 0 0 0 ) ( 0 0 0 )


    for(local.i = 0;local.item istouching local.model; local.i++)
    {
        if(local.dir == 1)
        {
            local.item.origin += local.vector * 1
        }
        else
        {
            local.item.origin -= local.vector * 1
        }
    }    


    local.item delete
        
    local.i = ( local.i * local.model.scale + 6) - 11.5


end local.i

Would this be hard to do? I mean, the vectors are just stored internally on entities of the Entity class and all its children classes alike.

[DoubleKill]

Mefy Freeze tag have a good mod for modeling sectors for the locations on the map

If you whant to have a look on the file i will share the file

[Sor]

Huh? Not sure if we're on the same page here. By 'setsize' and 'bounding box', I specifically mean this (i.e. the white lines):
http://moh.teasarspalace.com/pages/obstacle.htm

This is the bbox of the entity. When you solidify that entity the entire contents of that box becomes solid. You can change it size
and save that change as property to the entity you used it on but if someone already changed it and isn't as thoughtful to
save the change in the exact same property, then we have to resort to retrieving the bounding box values by using the
algorithm above. Not only is it far slower this way, but it should be unnecessary to do this.

[James]

If I remember correctly I was playing around with bboxes a while ago. Part of the reason that STWH is possible in MOHAA (and not any other q3 engine) is because of a fairly big flaw in the player bbox.

I'm sure I mentioned this before, I think the default player bbox is something like 16,-16,0 (going off memory here), however when the player leans, the bbox should also expand accordingly. When a player leans I believe the bbox increases by 12,-12,0 units which means the total should be 28,-28,0.

NOTE: My numbers may be off, but the logic is still the same.

Anywho, because the player leans outside of the default bbox, that's why you see players sometimes clipping through walls (even without STWH), however with STWH it intensifies the effect.

Anywho, don't want to get off topic, but I was trying to initially fix STWH by increasing the bbox during leans.

I ran into a problem though.
I was able to increase the bbox via script for a split second before the engine overwrote it (so yes, if you were to make a change in the engine, it should be possible)

Now we just check to see if the weapon is clipping and that works well to fix the problem.

[Sor]

Yes , I remember Lamron was struggling with the player's bboxes a few years ago.
Found it: http://www.modtheater.com/threads/pl...ing-box.32127/

So these commands would only be good for entities whose bounding boxes can change (or have to be set after you spawned it).

[val]

Is there a way to display players hitboxes ( the one that the bullet tracert detect ) in game ?
I'm pretty sure i have seen a video of that before but i can be wrong...

[James]

I think there may be a cvar to do it. I can't recall atm.

[Sor]

'r_showhbox' perhaps? It appears to be a cheat-protected cvar.