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This is a counterpart to the "Mapping Help" thread. If you need help with QuakeC coding, or questions about how to do some engine modification, this is the place for you! We've got a few coders here on the forum and hopefully someone knows the answer.
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Christ On A Bike. 
 
Playing The Fiddle Onehanded 
 
 
Make some minor changes to the micturating ogre model to give it a more ejaculatory flavour, and boom - cool new projectile attack. 
 
local .entity spot; 
That Was A Bit Disturbing Actually 
 
 
The way the ogre's balls rhythmically scrunch up on each cycle suggests we're getting something a little bit extra, not just urine. 
Make It Happen Madfox 
 
I Regret Having Been A Part Of This. 
Don't forget to do a particle(self.leakentity.origin,'0 0 0',60,18); for added effect 
I Screwed Myself Almost Geek On Those Fucking Flies! 
I could have suspect these intimate subroutines would lead to hillaric reactions, but..,

my bike had a leak last christ, and I wonder who'll pay the fiddler off.
I suggest kinn giving it a good smile sound.

Thanks Qmaster, I didn't warn you before I asked your help with my q1test. But you're welcome. I tried your email, but it didn't work.
Right, so I'll start with
local .entity spot;
The extra effects, it's like knowing the name of the statement, but not where to paist it in. 
I Changed 
in PlayerDeathThink after the buttons:

self.button2 = 0;
respawn();

//===new code===

local float entity spot;

local .entity spot;

spot = find (world,classname,"monster_ogreaxe");
if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"monster_ogreaxe");

spot.think = ai_leak1;
spot.leakentity = self;

}
};

//===end code===


error: no spot value.

then I added to defs qc line 139 :

.float skin;
.float effects;

//===new code==
.float spot;
//===end code==


Client.qc:812: error: type mismatch = (FIELDTYPE and entity) 
 
local entity spot;
no extra dot
(you want an entity, and not a field reference[of sub-type entity]) 
 
my bike had a leak last christ, and I wonder who'll pay the fiddler off.
I suggest kinn giving it a good smile sound.


I...just...I...but...nothing. 
Stumbling Is A Kind Of Laugh 
Appoligize my passionated reaktion, as I'm stupid enough to write down my nonsense before my smart conclusion starts reasoning.:P

Thanks Spike. Now I'm back at start with:

//=========new code===========
local float entity spot;
local entity spot;

spot = find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");
if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");

spot.think = ai_leak1;
spot.leakentity = self;
}

};
//====================end code==

client.qc:808: error: local not a type
client.qc:808: error: spot not a type
client.qc:808: error: if not a type
client.qc:808: error: self not a type 
 
local entity spot;
just that.
not 'local float entity spot;' - that's meaningless conflicting keywords. 
 
yes, but as soon as I add a line in client.qc before ClientObituary I receive the error "local" and "spot not a type".
How do I make them to a right statement? 
Ah 
I changed some parms

void() ai_leak =
{
local entity spot;
spot = find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");
if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");
{
spot.think = xogre_leak1;
// spot.leakentity = self;
return;
}
}
};


if I exclude spot.leakentity it compiles well,
warning that "Local "spot" not defined with a name of a global"

Wow, I've got an ai_leak!
What should be the next step? 
 
if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");
{
local entity pissee;
spot.think = xogre_leak1;
if ( pissee ) {find (world,classname,"monster_donaldjtrump")
spot.enemy = pissee; 
QuakeC Locals And Globals 
local makes that variable only work within the function--inside {} and ONLY after it has been declared (pretty sure about this second part).

Globals are any variable defined outside, e.g. in defs.qc (at the bottom of defs.qc anyways)

You need to define a .entity leakentity; somewhere outside a function and before you use it in client.qc.

E.g.

.entity leakentity; // entity to remember for later so the monster knows where to go take a leak

void ClientObituary() {
local entity spot; // entity to hold our axe ogre


//your find down here
...
};

I'll let you figure out how to make the monster hunt down the player location and then begin the actual taking a leak. 
Ho 
I'm back in PlayerDeathThink.

spot.think = xogre_leak1;

error: xogre_leak1 unknown value.

I can make a "void() xogre_leak;" at the top of the client.qc list,
but it keeps the error. 
Wait 
There is something I need to explain first. As I mentioned before I am working in the Q1Test environnement. Also I added the Dragon code, rubicon.qc as some other feathers. I also wanted to add a catapult in stead of an axe.

One thing I would like to keep original to the Q1test mod.
Sounds, conback, weapons, and monsters. Reason I add the Axe ogre and Serpent, Vormitus, as the Shalrath's queer apearance is, because that were the trivial things that were not implemented. The dragon form Megalol had a solution, but the mod from Patrick Martin I included has a more sensitive way.

So I started with the "poor" q1test src, and slowly tried to find a way through the queer qc that was forehand. No Axe, nowammu_cells plz, and other butheads, like no change_level, just the stripped down qc to deathmatch.

Now I'm at the point that I'm testing the monsters, but it gets a little tricky , when I would assume the errors I get involved in are not the ones that apear in normal vqcc106.

Enough, I've got ai_leak that compiles.

//=========================================
After ClientObituary:

local float rnum;
local string deathstring,deathstring2;

local entity spot; // entity to hold our axe ogre

if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"monster_xogre");
{
local entity leak;
spot.think = xogre_leak1;
}
}

rnum = random();

if (targ.classname == "player")
//=========================================

I had to add a new statement at the top for xogre_leak1 as it was not a value.

How do I make it aware for the player's death? 
Queer Or Queen 
 
Um, Compile With Fteqccgui? 
 
Qmaster 
I use fteccgui as fteqccgui. I can compile the client.qc but I have no idea how to make it correspond the player's death. I think it needs some more code.

local entity spot; // entity to hold our axe ogre
if ( spot ) {find (world,classname,"player");
{
local entity leak;
spot.think = xogre_leak1;
}
}


I tried your email, but it faints. 
 
gimmy a hint! 
 
Set spot.goalentity to player perhaps. 
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