Here's a little bug, it won't attack unless you change its sting.qc.

bug

I wanted something that just flattered around,
but as it awakes it is fixed to a player.
Not what I expected as it attack routine isn't used.
Maybe make it a bit smaller to lower the bouncing box.
Odd when it isn't possible to jump over it.

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i haven't looked at the code, but movetogoal will home in on whatever entity is stored in the .goalentity pointer.

if you adapted the sting.qc from a normal monster, then you probably have ai_stand() in the idle frames which will set the player to goalentity when it sees them.

then you probably have ai_run(#) which uses movetogoal which is what makes it run to the player. 

I guess I should have elaborated more:

what you need to do is remove ai_stand and ai_runs.

you will need to make a new movement function to replace the ai_run.

then you will need to find a way to make it choose when to move and when to stand.

btw, the model is cool. :) 

You're aiming at the point I lost my intention, necros.

In the mdl is a subroutine that turns, so it must be possible to make it just fly around, and take a place to sit down, after continuing flying.

It's just that I'm not so familiar with monsters that won't get hostile.
The subroutine to make it only wandering around don't come with an example to reach it.

The tumble when it dies accordant to a scrag explains a bit of the way to go. 

Maybe the code I used for birds will be helpful?
http://mobile.sheridanc.on.ca/~jonescor/temp/ne_bird(07.12.12).qc

check out the ai_bird() function at line 373

The bird doesn't move on it's own. The mapper places bird_anchorPoint entities with flags set for either food or rest.

Birds get hungry and tired when flying and have to go to rest areas to remove tiredness and food areas to remove hunger. This is basically how they decide where to go.

Also, birds don't use movetogoal or walkmove, they directly set .velocity to fly around. 

I searched in the AI.QC the .goalentity and the void.Hunt target.

I thought it would be possible to make the entity not getting hostile with an exclusion, but there is more involoved.

Still I don't get it why I can't jump over it.
I made the so seize small and still it acts like a pillar.

Thanks for the util, will see it through. 

That's awesome. I did a bird mesh, but just fired it via an emission without coding anything up. 

Poor bird mesh, to be vanished to fire without code!

necros - handsome sript! I try to rip off what comes in as usefull.

I suppose strings like "ai_monsterDead" and "ai_bird_modifyHunger" are the parts my compiler doesn't know to deal with.
But for a rough overview I must say you have a fine quake bird there. 

sorry about that.

ai_monsterDead is just a function that makes bodies fade away. You can just remove that.

ai_bird_modifyHunger is on line 188.

You can simplify it a lot by removing hunger and tiredness though. Those things are not really necessary. 

Ok, it's not a totally new model, I think I posted an early version of the dome right before my old site departed. But it's got a bunch of new skins, and it's now designed to align with the grid and brushes correctly.

http://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/dome/ 

inside of the ikblue dome in particular 

Here's a special model for this festive occasion - although it's not really seasonal, just a little bit silly. It's a custom shambler model with some very special animations. Might even be useful if you're looking for an easter egg for your mod.

http://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/shambler-dance/

I reckon the underlying model has potential too. It would need a bit of work on the skin, give the fur convincing texture. Shaping on the arms needs some work. And obviously some sensible animations... 

I'm scrapping the map itself, but those columns look familiar http://www.suspenlute.com/stuff/columns.jpg 

with 17 years of quake history someone somewhere MUST have created a model of a human heart - preferably animated. Anybody know? 

But it's just a blob of meat - you can probably make one in under an hour, even if you just use ye olde QME on its own :)

I spose it's possible that there was something like that in Hexen. And the HL1 gibs were pretty detailed. But hunting one down will probably take more time than making one. 

but I'd hoped there was something better out there. oh well. 

The finest heart model which comes in under 50 polygons and takes less than an hour to make.

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/models/heart.zip

Half-life certainly had a model as well, it was probably a but better than this... 

For shame sir.







(Nice model) 

Heartbeat sounds if you want them:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6779j28cc0619d/heartbeats.7z

They're from a variety of projects; all should work in Quake. 

Just to say that if you do have any more vital organ requests, or indeed other ideas for models that could be created in just one hour, do post them. I'll see how many I can do between now and the new year. Reference images are very helpful.

Since the scope is just one hour, animation is probably out of the question. I did consider adding a beating heart effect to the model, but I couldn't see how to do it both quickly and well. 

Not sure how complex any of these could be, or become in terms of time. This list is probably something akin to what the naughty children received over christmas instead of presents...

Gravestones http://anakhacoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/celtic.jpg
Ladders
Cluster of mushrooms https://mycotopia.net/forums/attachments/photo-gallery-grow-logs/204332d1294432390-luminous-mushrooms-untitled.png
Hanging Lantern (Nehahra but nicer)
Twisted Trees http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rAklDg9gh4/Ta-GMkT6rtI/AAAAAAAAAjo/ikp7PrcSdGE/s1600/tree.jpg
Gibbet with corpse http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/1/1b/Gibbet.jpg
Old Skeleton / Bones http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2991878-530102-very-old-human-skull-from-the-historical-place.jpg
Wall of skulls http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4b706UrnAoc/SesxNmn3CII/AAAAAAAABWM/7VJgsZSJMtY/s200/brnobones.jpg
Decorative bones / mummies http://www.shopcurious.com/Images/Editor/Crypt%20of%20the%20Capuchins.jpg
Cobwebs (for corners etc)
Sacrificial Altar
Loads of torture shit http://www.medievalwarfare.info/torture.htm 

Grass 

Piles of books, scattered around 

That heart looks awesome, especially with the extra red skin I had lying around. Thanks! :D 

Going for the mushrooms, one hour from now...