Does anybody know in mp which files/functions the game handles the firing of an rpg? More specifically where it creates the projectile entity and gives it the vector to aim at? I've found the various places where new c4/claymore/grenades are spawned and handled but not rpgs.

Thx

It's not handled by a script. It's all done in the weaponfile.

Isnt the rocket projectile created from its model as referred to by the launcher weapon file to be placed in-game? The usual procedure being to take the position and orientation of the player for its own origin and firing direction? The smoke fx must follow it as well. My thinking is that somewhere along the way the projectile model and fx are attached to an entity. At the moment its the entity name of the projectile that I am searching for.

The entity reference is: "rocket" | "classname"

Checked my emails this morning and that was just the thing I was looking for, thank you. Last thing I needed, plugged it in, and works like a charm. Tried to get the entity via reference but it never worked... always 'undefined'.

Now I get to go back and debug.

Well if there are no rockets in the air, then there will be no references for it.

Yes. I had the right method of getting the entity but the wrong keys to put into the function call, so they never existed.

One thing I am curious about. Is the 'rocket' keyword limited to the firing player only when used in this way? Say if three people fired their rockets at the same time?

getEntArray("rocket", "classname"); Will get every rocket that exists at that point in time.

Its all getting a bit more complicated than I thought. But isnt it always with programming?

Thank you that function instead should work great. For testing purposes I altered an rpg and changed its settings into a seeker. It works very well but just for kicks I fired twice in a row. Of course the second didnt track and caused an error. Heh.

It worked. For testing purposes its kinda funny watching 5-6 missiles circling and trying to home in on the chopper.

One interesting problem is that a missile that has a locked target ( missile_settarget() ) looks like it will go no higher than the chopper. I suppose thats a limitation of the function and it resets any upward momentum down to the chopper height. When firing straight up without a lock the rocket goes up like... well... a rocket.