I want to mod a range finder into the binoculars but i have no idea how to do this. does anyone know any sources that might give me some clue.
are there any forums that you have seen that offer any tuts on this subject

you could try making a script something like this:

1) Check if a player is usung binoculars.
2) If so determine is angles so you can see what direction he's looking in
3) Find the first object in that direction
4) Get the origin of both player and object.
5) With those two calculate the distance
6) use an overlay to display the distance to the object. (or, more crude, probably for testing only, a simple line print).

i can't script that. what i wanna do is mod the binocs so that there is a way of telling if you will be hitting the window when you launch artillery.
usually a rangefinder will report one yard or so if you are hitting the window instead of having a clear line of sight out of the window.

why can't you script that? it's possible.. but hard.

Even with a "rangefinger" it will still be hard to tell what you'll be actually targetting, but that's half the fun imho.

i can't script it because i am not inteligent enought to beable to write this code. i can understand what it says, i can read it. but writing it is a whole nother story.

Understanding code is the biggest step towards making your own scripts.

Since you can read them, it shows you're an intelligent guy (or girl?).

Just start slow... start by having the script figure out when you're using the binoculars.. if that works, move on.. don't try to do it all in one go.

dont want start new topic, but ill do if this isnt on 1st page

herey my script acatally have to work but still problems with it:
-whats the order to tell the game taht im using the binoculars?
-always get some script error, its says to me that line 20 where is this line:
end = vectorScale(vec, 100000);
is an unknown function...dunno why it is, also tried it several times, no success
-how do i integer the range? int isnt working
maybe i have to do it with vertornormalize? can some1 maybe help me with this?
but the main part is the vectorscale function
why is it not working?!

here my script:

main()
{
players = getentarray("player", "classname");
for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)
	{
	players[i] thread distance();
	}
}



distance()
{

point = spawn("script_model", (0,0,0));
conversion = 0.0254; // unit in meters - meters in unit

while( self.sessionstate == "playing" ) // how can i say the game that im using binoculars?
	{
	angles = self getplayerangles(); 
	vec = anglestoforward(angles); 
	end = vectorScale(vec, 100000); //vectorscale also not working, dunno why
	traceend = (self.origin + end); 
	tracestart = self.origin + (0, 0, 60);

	trace = bulletTrace( tracestart, traceend, false, undefined );

		if(trace["fraction"] != 1)
		{
		dist = trace["position"];
		//range = (int) ( range * conversion); //how do I integer the range? int doesnt seem to work in cod2??
		range = distance( dist, self.origin );	
		}
		else
		{
		range = 0;
		}

	hud = newClientHudElem(self);
	hud.x = 500;
	hud.y = 300;
	hud.alpha = 1;
	hud setvalue(range);

	}

wait 0.1;

}

Removed surplus variables and made it a little bit more performance friendly, didn't run this since I don't have CoD2 installed anymore but it should work.

main()
{
	players = GetEntArray( "player", "classname" );

	for( i = 0 ; i < players.size ; i++)
	{
		players[ i ] thread lookAtTrace();
	}
}



lookAtTrace()
{	
	self endon ( "disconnect" );

	hud = NewClientHudElem( self );
	hud.x = 500;
	hud.y = 300;
	hud.alpha = 1;
	
	while( 1 )
	{
		traceend = ( self.origin + ( AnglesToForward( self GetPlayerAngles() ) * 100000 ) );
		tracestart = self GetEye();

		trace = BulletTrace( tracestart, traceend, false, undefined );

		range = 0;

		if( trace[ "fraction" ] != 1 )
		{
			range = DistanceSquared( trace[ "position" ], self.origin );
		}

		hud SetValue( ( range * range ) );

		wait ( 0.05 );
	}
}

edited on Jan. 22, 2011 05:14 pm by SparkyMcSparks

Doesnt work
When you first call the main() thread, presumably on gametypestart, there are no players connected, so the thread is run on all (=0) players

Yeah, I was assuming the guy knew that and just posted snippets.

Just call something like this before doing the player stuff...

maps\mp\_load::main();

wait ( 10 ); // Or how ever long it takes for players to get set up in MP, I'm not a MP scripter