From: Mario <mario.mario@y7mail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 08:09:50 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Calculate a rough shot origin to show Arc smoke effects, rather than calling W_SetupS... 
X-Git-Tag: xonotic-v0.8.5~705
X-Git-Url: https://git.xonotic.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c34a186bb9d81d71772cc81cdc6354da04f085ae;p=xonotic%2Fxonotic-data.pk3dir.git

Calculate a rough shot origin to show Arc smoke effects, rather than calling W_SetupShot every frame, improves performance slightly while holding the Arc
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diff --git a/qcsrc/common/weapons/weapon/arc.qc b/qcsrc/common/weapons/weapon/arc.qc
index 848825f14..d7ad8368a 100644
--- a/qcsrc/common/weapons/weapon/arc.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/common/weapons/weapon/arc.qc
@@ -557,9 +557,14 @@ void W_Arc_Attack(Weapon thiswep, entity actor, .entity weaponentity, int fire)
 }
 void Arc_Smoke(Weapon thiswep, entity actor, .entity weaponentity, int fire)
 {
-	// TODO: spamming this without checking any refires is asking for trouble!
+	// calculate a rough shot origin to show the effect from TODO: move this to the client side!
 	makevectors(actor.v_angle);
-	W_SetupShot_Range(actor,weaponentity,false,0,SND_Null,0,0,0,thiswep.m_id); // TODO: probably doesn't need deathtype, since this is just a prefire effect
+	w_shotdir = v_forward;
+	vector md = actor.(weaponentity).movedir;
+	vector vecs = ((md.x > 0) ? md : '0 0 0');
+	vector dv = v_forward * vecs.x + v_right * -vecs.y + v_up * vecs.z;
+	w_shotorg = actor.origin + actor.view_ofs + dv;
+	//W_SetupShot_Range(actor,weaponentity,false,0,SND_Null,0,0,0,thiswep.m_id);
 
 	vector smoke_origin = w_shotorg + actor.velocity*frametime;
 	if ( actor.arc_overheat > time )