add a getplayerorigin() function that finds any player's origin if the system knows it

diff --git a/qcsrc/client/Main.qc b/qcsrc/client/Main.qc
index 03cbd528a2cf3cbf983ef500bc57edcaf3addee3..f03c2b33d0bd8f87d0a3fbe8708bd124764039db 100644 (file)
--- a/qcsrc/client/Main.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/client/Main.qc
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ void Ent_ReadEntCS()
        self.origin_z = ReadShort();
        self.angles_y = ReadByte() * 360.0 / 256;
        self.origin_z = self.angles_x = self.angles_z = 0;
+       entcs_receiver[self.sv_entnum] = self;
 
        InterpolateOrigin_Note();
 }

diff --git a/qcsrc/client/main.qh b/qcsrc/client/main.qh
index aacd41589aae6de1dbdd65a6704f733c6d246e9e..af849e18c57c92dce1d1580b3342962b5b23403d 100644 (file)
--- a/qcsrc/client/main.qh
+++ b/qcsrc/client/main.qh
@@ -162,3 +162,5 @@ float g_balance_grenadelauncher_bouncestop;
 float g_balance_electro_secondary_bouncefactor;
 float g_balance_electro_secondary_bouncestop;
 float g_trueaim_minrange;
+
+entity entcs_receiver[255]; // 255 is the engine limit on maxclients

diff --git a/qcsrc/client/miscfunctions.qc b/qcsrc/client/miscfunctions.qc
index 247dc4b35a64dedc2c7de722420154e9084df48e..fdaaf7da6d5ef03c5ee2aaf1918f80f24ba1fb82 100644 (file)
--- a/qcsrc/client/miscfunctions.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/client/miscfunctions.qc
@@ -754,3 +754,15 @@ void DrawCircleClippedPic(vector centre, float radius, string pic, float f, vect
                R_EndPolygon();
        }
 }
+
+const vector GETPLAYERORIGIN_ERROR = '1123581321 2357111317 3141592653'; // way out of bounds for anything on the map
+vector getplayerorigin(float pl)
+{
+       string s;
+       s = getplayerkey(pl, "TEMPHACK_origin");
+       if(s != "")
+               return stov(s);
+       if(entcs_receiver[pl].classname == "entcs_receiver")
+               return entcs_receiver[pl].origin;
+       return GETPLAYERORIGIN_ERROR;
+}