[DrThunder]

I wrote and mod that gives fall damage to Hunters when they pounce but I think there should be a better way of doing it. Right now I have timers that start when they pounce, and it check to see if the height of the hunter stays the same. When it does stay the same ( In theory that means they landed) it will calculate the start distance and the end distance then gives damage to the hunter when they land. The problem is sometimes the timer wont catch them landing and it will multiply the distance off several pounces and kill the hunter out right. So does any one know a better way giving fall damage to a hunter on a pounce? My mod is complicated and fails once or twice a round, which isn't bad I guess. But there seem there should be a better way. Is there a hidden event when a player lands? On is there a way of enabling normal fall damage to hunters?

[DrThunder]

I guess there isn't a easier way of doing this.

[Greyscale]

Give it time, sometimes people don't check the forums every 5 hours. I'd help you out but I don't own L4D nor do I know what a hunter is.

[Wazz]

Have you tried changing their gravity while pouncing to see if you can get the desired outcome?

[Thraka]

If you hook the ability_use for the hunter and get his location, then hook pounce_fail and check the location, you can get height change.

[DrThunder]

Originally Posted by Wazz Have you tried changing their gravity while pouncing to see if you can get the desired outcome?

The way I have my mod now is when the player starts to pounce it starts a time that will check every tenth of a second if the height of the player does not change. So in theory when you are pouncing your height is always changing till you land. And that works most of the time. When it fails is when (This is just a guess but seem to be the problem) a player lands on a none flat surface and keeps moving, so their height is not constant. What I would like is to get rid of the timer altogether and have a more fool proof way of doing it. It seems like there would be a event for the hunter landing or a way just to enable the normal fall damage that the survivors take, but I have not found anything like that.

[pheadxdll]

Check for changes in velocity. I'm not that experienced with L4D but it should be possible.

[DrThunder]

Originally Posted by Thraka If you hook the ability_use for the hunter and get his location, then hook pounce_fail and check the location, you can get height change.

I hook pounce_fail and made it print to chat when the event is fired and pounce_fail does not fire when a hunter lands.

[DrThunder]

I put in display_game_events 1 in console and it looks like the last event to get fired is jump_apex. No event linked to landing.

[DrThunder]

Originally Posted by pheadxdll Check for changes in velocity. I'm not that experienced with L4D but it should be possible.

how do you get current velocity?