Now put my hack in place, making it possible to trace and edit non-solid objects.

diff --git a/qcsrc/server/mutators/sandbox.qc b/qcsrc/server/mutators/sandbox.qc
index 5312d88973be7fa0705714b070ad877973e30c61..142ac199dc09b0de0c0d04098b6840e076ed337f 100644 (file)
--- a/qcsrc/server/mutators/sandbox.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/server/mutators/sandbox.qc
@@ -58,14 +58,27 @@ void sandbox_ObjectFunction_Think()
        self.nextthink = time;
 }
 
+.float old_solid, old_movetype;
 entity sandbox_ObjectEdit_Get(float permissions)
 {
        // returns the traced entity if the player can edit it, and world if not
        // if permissions if FALSE, the object is returned regardless of editing rights
        // attached objects are SOLID_NOT and don't risk getting traced
+       entity head;
 
+       // Tracing does not work for entities that use SOLID_NOT or SOLID_TRIGGER. Therefore, make all
+       // objects temporarily solid while doing the trace, then revert them to their initial solidity.
+       for(head = world; (head = find(head, classname, "object")); )
+       {
+               head.old_solid = head.solid;
+               head.solid = SOLID_BBOX;
+       }
        makevectors(self.v_angle);
        WarpZone_TraceLine(self.origin + self.view_ofs, self.origin + self.view_ofs + v_forward * autocvar_g_sandbox_editor_distance_edit, MOVE_NORMAL, self);
+       for(head = world; (head = find(head, classname, "object")); )
+       {
+               head.solid = head.old_solid;
+       }
 
        if(trace_ent.classname != "object")
                return world; // entity is not an object
@@ -89,7 +102,6 @@ void sandbox_ObjectEdit_Scale(entity e, float f)
        }
 }
 
-.float old_solid, old_movetype;
 void sandbox_ObjectAttach_Remove(entity e);
 void sandbox_ObjectAttach_Set(entity e, entity parent, string s)
 {