func_mortar_field Class Reference

About this class

Server-Entity: Mortar Drop Zone.

QUAKED func_mortar_field (0 .5 .8) ?

OVERVIEW

This brush volume acts as mortar drop area. When triggered, it'll drop mortar shells straight to the ground (with a bit of spread if specified).

KEYS

• "targetname" : Name
• "m_flSpread" : Maximum spread in game-units
• "m_flCount" : Number of bombs dropped per strike
• "m_flControl" : Targeting type. 0 = random, 1 = activator, 2 = controlled
• "m_iszXController" : Name of the momentary_rot_button providing X-offset
• "m_iszYController" : Name of the momentary_rot_button providing Y-offset

NOTES

It can be set to three different targeting modes, 0 will pick any random point in the volume as a drop position. 1 will target the person or entity activating it and 2 is a more complex mode which requires two momentary_rot_button entities to control the X and Y offset in the volume.

GoldSrc expects some hardcoded behaviour (sounds playing, hardcoded delay between mortar shell drops) that I haven't implemented yet. I'll turn those into map attribute keys so people can finally control sound, damage, delay and so on.

TRIVIA

This entity was introduced in Half-Life (1998).

Inheritance diagram for func_mortar_field:

Public Member Functions
void	func_mortar_field (void)
virtual void	Save (float)
	Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle.
virtual void	Restore (string, string)
	Similar to ncIO::SpawnKey() but for save-game fields.
virtual void	Trigger (entity, triggermode_t)
	Called whenever we're legacy triggered by another object or function.
virtual void	Respawn (void)
	Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state.
virtual void	SpawnKey (string, string)
	This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load.
nonvirtual void	Fire (entity, vector)
nonvirtual void	FireRandom (entity)
nonvirtual void	FireTarget (entity)
nonvirtual void	FireControlled (entity)

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

func_mortar_field()

void func_mortar_field::func_mortar_field

(

void

)

Member Function Documentation

Fire()

void func_mortar_field::Fire	(	entity	firingEnt,
		vector	vecOrg )

FireControlled()

void func_mortar_field::FireControlled

(

entity

act

)

FireRandom()

void func_mortar_field::FireRandom

(

entity

act

)

FireTarget()

void func_mortar_field::FireTarget

(

entity

act

)

Respawn()

void func_mortar_field::Respawn ( void )

virtual

Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state.

Reimplemented from ncBrushTrigger.

Restore()

void func_mortar_field::Restore ( string keyName, string setValue )

virtual

Similar to ncIO::SpawnKey() but for save-game fields.

Whatever you write into file handles within your ncIO::Save() method needs to be read back in here.

Reimplemented from ncEntity.

Save()

void func_mortar_field::Save ( float handle )

virtual

Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle.

Within you want to use the ncIO::SaveFloat() etc. methods to write the internal member attributes to the specified file handle.

Reimplemented from ncEntity.

SpawnKey()

void func_mortar_field::SpawnKey ( string keyName, string setValue )

virtual

This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load.

You can easily convert the strValue parameter using the ReadFloat etc. methods that are part of ncIO.

Reimplemented from ncEntity.

Trigger()

void func_mortar_field::Trigger ( entity act, triggermode_t state )

virtual

Called whenever we're legacy triggered by another object or function.

Reimplemented from ncTrigger.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• src/gs-entbase/server/func_mortar_field.qc