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Cvars in The Dark Mod

2007-03-10T07:50:47Z

203.32.87.50: revert minor vandalism

A complete list of Doom 3 Cvars can be found here: http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/cvars.php

This should be a list of Cvars that are currently available in the Dark Mod:

== Inventory ==
* '''tdm_inv_grouping''' Determines whether or not the user-interface uses inventory grouping. It can be changed on the fly without losing the currently selected item.
:* '''0''' means to use a T1/T2 style interface. '''Previous item''' and '''Next item''' are used to scroll through the entire inventory. An empty slot exists between the last and first items of the inventory. '''Previous group''' and '''Next group''' are not functional.
:* '''1''' means to use inventory groups. '''Previous item''' and '''Next item''' are used to scroll through the items in the current group. An empty slot exists between the last and first items of a group. '''Previous group''' and '''Next group''' are used to scroll through the groups of the current inventory in alphabetical order.
:* '''2''' is default, meaning to use a T1/T2 style interface but sort the inventory by group. Items within a given group retain their position relative to eachother, but all items in the first group exist before all items in the second group, and so on. '''Previous item''' and '''Next item''' are used to scroll through the entire inventory. An empty slot exists between the last and first items of the inventory. '''Previous group''' and '''Next group''' are used to scroll through the groups of the current inventory in alphabetical order.
* '''tdm_inv_opacity''' : Controls the opacity of the inventory GUI. The range is anywhere from '''0''' to '''1''', where '''0''' makes it totally invisible and '''1''' makes it fully opaque.

== AI ==
Useful while mapping/testing/designing
* '''tdm_ai_sight''' set to 0 to make AI blind (default 0.7 at time of this writing)
* '''tdm_ai_sndvol''' set to a low negative value, e.g., -300, to make AI deaf (default 0)
* '''tdm_ai_tact''' set to 0 to remove AI sense of touch (default 20)

* [[AI Attachment Ingame Editing]]

== Attachment related ==
The following attachment commands must be run while looking at the AI you want to modify, with nothing obstructing your view. I could have made people type in the full name of the AI, but I'd figure we'd see how it works when looking at them. Also, these are meant to be run after you have initially placed the attachments in the def file / spawnArgs of the AI. This step is still done the same as before.

* '''tdm_attach_print:''' Print the attachment info for the given attachment on the AI you are looking at.
* Usage: tdm_attach_print <attachment index>

* '''tdm_attach_offset''': Set the vector offset (x y z) for an attachment on an AI you are looking at.
* Usage: tdm_attach_offset <attachment index> <x> <y> <z>

* '''tdm_attach_rot''': Set the rotation (pitch yaw roll) for an attachment on an AI you are looking at.
* Usage: tdm_attach_rot <atachment index> <pitch> <yaw> <roll> (NOTE: Rotation is applied before translation, angles are relative to the joint orientation)

* '''tdm_attach_joint''': Set the attachment joint name for an attachment on an AI you are looking at.
Usage: tdm_attach_joint <attachment index> <string name of joint>

[[Category:General]]

Dynamically Resizing Models

2007-02-24T08:30:45Z

203.32.87.50: Another way to resize models

{{Original_Reference|Ishtvan|2986}}

There's been a lot of questions about whether we can dynamically resize an entity ingame. Well, I think I did this by accident the other day. The key seems to be the following function:

void idEntity::SetAxis( const idMat3 &axis )

This is meant to re-orient the object to a given axis, and usually the axes are normalized so that each vector in the axis keeps a lenght of "1" and it doesn't rescale the entity. However, when I accidentally put a non-normalized vector in there, it actually shrank the object down. This happened for one of the crates in test_water. It was a result of a bug in my code, but I could get it to shrink down to about 1/4th its size and then come back up to the normal size. Pretty crazy.

It didn't mess up the textures or anything either, they seemed to stretch along with the object so that they kept their mapping coordinates relative to the object.

I got rid of the code since then since it didn't do what I wanted, but just thought this should be documented in case we want to dynamically shrink/expand brushes later.

Mappers can also do this [http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=15227 using the "rotation" key].

[[Category:SDK]]

Adding Offset Values for Specific AI

2007-01-23T01:23:23Z

203.32.87.50: formatting

All EntityDefs have two values -- an Offset value that determines their position relative to their attached joint, and an Angle value that determines what angle they're at.

The default values for these do not always work ideally for every AI, so it is possible to edit the entityDef to give values for specific AI.

It would look like this:

entityDef prop_helmet_test {
"inherit" "func_static"
"model" "models/darkmod/props/kitchen/chamberpot.lwo"
"joint" "Head"
"origin" "2 -10 0"
"angles" "10 190 80"
'''"origin_atdm:ai_builder_guard" "0 0 20"'''
'''"angles_atdm:ai_builder_guard" "0 0 0"'''
"remove" "0"
}

[[Category:Tutorial]]
[[Category:Editing]]