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Category:	CoD4 Scripting Scripting and coding with Call of Duty 4.
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Topic: Script calls - Hooking between game engine and scripts?

Sevenz

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 09:17 am
Quote: I think that Sevenz is trying to work out what gets called by the engine as a map is loaded. Right, i'm interested into what is called when and will eventually create a flowchart for scripters. Will help to understand where to place what code IMO. And i find it quite interesting how a hardcoded engine interacts with runtime scripts. Thank you Tally for the detailed explaination! Quote: codescripts\delete::main() seems not Put a trigger_touch in a custom map and set the VEHICLE spawn flag. Then it should be called to remove that trigger, as vehicle touch triggers aren't supported (check console, iirc the game tells you this)
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SparkyMcSparks

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 11:11 am
Tally writes... Quote: As for codescripts\struct::InitStructs() - it is totally redundant; it doesn't do anything at all. The struct array is actual defined in the engine code itself. I think it is legacy code left over from when they were building the COD2 engine. It is not well known that, half way through the development of COD2, Infinity Ward did a U turn on how the engine would work and how it would be structured. I was told this when I visited the IW studios the first time, but a clear example of it can be seen in that half of the materials files are strange .TGA files which replaced COD1's .STYPE files, and then they switched over to Maya .MTL files (materials files). This was about half way through development. The initStruct() function appears to be similar redundant development - kind of like leaving in all the Quake 3 menu .H and .C stuff, which was/is never used in any COD game (not even in the Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine). It's used in SP (I haven't tried MP). EDIT: It's used in MP too. Comment out the line inside InitStructs() and you'll get fatal SREs at initial runtime from CreateStruct() that level.struct array isn't defined.
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serthy

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 12:07 pm
this level.struct is kinda strange in my eyes there are alot of getStruct() and getStructArray()'s in various cod-titles (utility-funcs) but i didnt found anywhere something like level.struct = getentarray( bla , bla ); except of in InitStructs() & CreateStruct() ...
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SparkyMcSparks

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 09:23 pm
serthy writes... Quote: this level.struct is kinda strange in my eyes there are alot of getStruct() and getStructArray()'s in various cod-titles (utility-funcs) but i didnt found anywhere something like level.struct = getentarray( bla , bla ); except of in InitStructs() & CreateStruct() ... It's for structs placed in Radiant. Code calls the functions inside the script, hence why it's in the codescripts folder and there is no level.struct = get_stuff() anywhere in script. level.struct is used in struct_class_init() function within ...\raw\common_scripts\utility.gsc to organize level.struct into level.struct_class_names array based on target, targetname, script_noteworthy, or script_linkname keys. getstruct() and getstructarray() returns structs from level.struct_class_names struct_class_init() is used in both SP and MP, so it should break MP too if you comment out stuff inside codescripts\struct.gsc
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Tally

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 07:49 am
SparkyMcSparks writes... Quote: serthy writes... Quote: this level.struct is kinda strange in my eyes there are alot of getStruct() and getStructArray()'s in various cod-titles (utility-funcs) but i didnt found anywhere something like level.struct = getentarray( bla , bla ); except of in InitStructs() & CreateStruct() ... It's for structs placed in Radiant. Code calls the functions inside the script, hence why it's in the codescripts folder and there is no level.struct = get_stuff() anywhere in script. level.struct is used in struct_class_init() function within ...\raw\common_scripts\utility.gsc to organize level.struct into level.struct_class_names array based on target, targetname, script_noteworthy, or script_linkname keys. getstruct() and getstructarray() returns structs from level.struct_class_names struct_class_init() is used in both SP and MP, so it should break MP too if you comment out stuff inside codescripts\struct.gsc Thanks for the info. When I tested this, I tested on COD2, as I have a new rig which doesn't have COD4 installed (yet). With COD2, I commented out level.struct in struct::init() and ran a MP server without any errors. Even in developer mode, it doesn't complain. So, in COD2, the struct.gsc file must only be used in SP. I didn't test COD2 SP. And of course, COD2 doesn't have any common_scripts folder, so there is a significant change right there. In all, I was therefore wrong to assume that nothing had changed in that department between 2 and 4.
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serthy

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Category: CoD4 Scripting Posted: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 11:36 am
Quote: So, in COD2, the struct.gsc file must only be used in SP. True, placed around 30 script_structs in a small testmap, half of them with a targetname of 'struct'. In MP you cant get them neither in level.struct nor in getentArray() or getentArray("struct","targetname").
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