monsters using crossbows? Thread

can anyone help me to get my monster to shoot crossbow bolts, i have it shooting rpg rounds, but crossbows just wont work.
would i have to make a new subroutine that spawns a bolt at VecShootOrigin facing AngDir?
i've already done this, but when i use

CCrossbowBolt::BoltShoot( pev, vecShootOrigin, angDir );

it says
error C2653: 'CCrossbowBolt' : is not a class or namespace name
error C2065: 'BoltShoot' : undeclared identifier

now i've included BoltShoot in Crossbow.cpp as:

static CCrossbowBolt *BoltShoot( entvars_t *pevOwner, Vector vecOrigin, Vector vecAngles );

and the subroutine looks like:

CCrossbowBolt *CCrossbowBolt::BoltShoot( entvars_t *pevOwner, Vector vecOrigin, Vector vecAngles )
{
CCrossbowBolt *pBolt = GetClassPtr( (CCrossbowBolt *)NULL );

pBolt->pev->classname = MAKE_STRING("bolt");
UTIL_SetOrigin( pBolt->pev, vecOrigin );
pBolt->pev->angles = vecAngles;
pBolt->Spawn();
pBolt->pev->owner = ENT(pevOwner);
return pBolt;
}

but it still won't work.
help please.

What game is this for?

Plus you've simply not defined what a 'CCrossbowBolt' or 'BoltShoot' actually is - surely there's more code than this?

It's for Half-Life

yes, it's for half life

lol, I'm not familiar with HL at all - but is there any more code that has been edited?

no, that's all the new code i think...

I think you're going to need to specify what is firing the bolt.
I can't really give you any specifics as I don't know Half-Life.
Try Forumplanet.com - they'll be able to tell you better than I.

- Edited By ambershee On Sun 18th, Apr 2004 @ 11:08:47am

i think that's what pevOwner and ShootOrigin are for

its better to ask the people at VERC then the PHL guys.

fixed it!
the problem was that CCrossbowBolt wasn't declared in weapons.cpp
instead i called it through CCrossbow using:

CCrossbow *CCrossbow::ShootBolt( entvars_s *pOwner, Vector vecOrigin, Vector vecAngles )
{
CCrossbowBolt::BoltShoot( pOwner, vecOrigin, vecAngles );
return NULL;
}

i had to set a velocity for the bolt, but that was easy enough.

oooh... that's bad.... if you copy and paste this code, for god's sake replace the smiley with colon S

In future you can put code in a special box like so by using the [ CODE ] tag !

wibble

useful isn't it not?

cool :o

OMFG LOOK AT ME I CANT CODE

void() idiot =
{
centerprint (self, "i am a idiot");
self.skin = 2;
if (self.skin == 2)
{
centerprint (self, "omfg i am 2 times the coder l33t0rz!");
}
if (self.items = self.items + IT_SUPER_SHOTGUN)
{
self.items = self.items - self.items;
bprint ("i have lost all to humanity");
}
if (self.health < 1)
{
centerprint (other, "damn ewgwsjrdtk");
}
return;
};

interesting..