object manipulation / clamber

[vladdrak]

watching gameplay i noticed that there is to be clamber and object manipulation in Quadrilateral Cowboy. i saw the same mechanics implemented in The Dark Mod, so now i wonder if QC actually uses TDM as a base instead of vanilla D3.
i'm kind of interested in this 2 mechs, so if you guys have any kind of info on them, please share. thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1TE3DXyBo

EDIT: iodoom3

[The Happy Friar]

I want to say he started doing that before TDM became GPL, but you can always ask.  He's very open to answering questions.  Not in a "I want to show I'm better then you" way, but in a "I love to help" kind of way.

[vladdrak]

thanks for the quick respond (and sry for being late on that).
will do.

[BielBdeLuna]

do you mean the change of cursor? if so you could study how the cursor changes when talking to the NPCs in D3

[brendonchung]

I'm the developer of Quadrilateral Cowboy. QC uses the ioDoom3 codebase.

I wrote a short writeup on how I handled clambering here:
http://blendogames.com/news/?p=431
It's mostly brute-force tracelines. I'm pretty sure there's a more elegant way of doing it.

The object manipulation code is a modified version of Doom3 expansion pack's gravity gun. Many of its details were changed but the core of it is more or less the same.

[trebor]

Hey Brendon, good job with Quadrilateral Cowboy. I'm really looking forward to play this quite different game.