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Make firstperson tracers look less bad #1709

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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions src/game/client/clientsideeffects_test.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -155,7 +155,11 @@ void FX_PlayerTracer( Vector& start, Vector& end )

//Randomly place the tracer along this line, with a random length
VectorMA( start, TRACER_BASE_OFFSET + random->RandomFloat( -24.0f, 64.0f ), shotDir, dStart );
#ifdef NEO
VectorMA( dStart, ( length * random->RandomFloat( 0.1f, 1.6f ) ), shotDir, dEnd );
#else
VectorMA( dStart, ( length * random->RandomFloat( 0.1f, 0.6f ) ), shotDir, dEnd );
#endif

//Create the line
CFXStaticLine *t;
Expand All @@ -164,7 +168,11 @@ void FX_PlayerTracer( Vector& start, Vector& end )
//materialName = ( random->RandomInt( 0, 1 ) ) ? "effects/tracer_middle" : "effects/tracer_middle2";
materialName = "effects/spark";

#ifdef NEO
t = new CFXStaticLine( "Tracer", dStart, dEnd, random->RandomFloat( 2.5f, 2.75f ), 0.01f, materialName, 0 );
#else
t = new CFXStaticLine( "Tracer", dStart, dEnd, random->RandomFloat( 0.5f, 0.75f ), 0.01f, materialName, 0 );
#endif
assert( t );

//Throw it into the list
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion src/game/client/fx_tracer.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -124,11 +124,12 @@ void TracerCallback( const CEffectData &data )

#ifdef NEO
if ( bPlayerFirstperson )
{
FX_PlayerTracer(vecStart, (Vector&)data.m_vOrigin);
#else
int iEntIndex = data.entindex();

if ( iEntIndex && iEntIndex == player->index )
#endif
{
Vector foo = data.m_vStart;
QAngle vangles;
Expand All @@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ void TracerCallback( const CEffectData &data )
foo[2] -= 0.5f;

FX_PlayerTracer( foo, (Vector&)data.m_vOrigin );
#endif
return;
}

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