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I think I'll add flashlight to fire arrow explosion. It will be very small, weak, and in yellow/red tones --- very different from the flashbomb/mine flash. I have a proof-of-concept implementation. Now thinking on how to do it properly. |
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I noticed that the new implementation of explosion trigger when arrow hits water. |
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I decided to return back to the implementation using script to temporarily spawn a light entity. Otherwise, it would be too hard to avoid flashlight when hitting water surface. Done in svn rev 15767. |
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Here is the explanation about difference between implementation: The first one is used by mine, flashmine and flashbomb. They have def_flashlight spawnarg, which specifies a def of a light. The attached script object (result_flashbomb and result_mine) takes the value of this spawnarg and spawns the specified object for a hardcoded duration of time. Arrows don't use such system yet. The second approach is used by fireball (i.e. atdm:projectile_fireball). It works by specifying a set of detonate_on_* spawnargs, then mtr_explode_light_shader and explode_light_* cvars to specify light source parameters. As far as I understand, it works via C++ code (idProjectile::Explode) left from Doom 3. It seems that firearrow also uses some of this system, namely mtr_detonate cvar. Copied from internal discussion: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20210-5017-illumination-from-fire-arrows/ |
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