Engine Hooks
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Engine hooks are the functions that the quake engine calls in quake-c. With the exception of level initialization, virtually all quake-c code is executed starting from in of these functions
| function name | brief description |
|---|---|
| main() | "only for testing" |
| StartFrame() | |
| PlayerPreThink() | "Called every frame before physics are run" |
| PlayerPostThink() | "Called every frame after physics are run" |
| ClientKill() | "Player entered the suicide command" |
| ClientConnect() | "called when a player connects to a server" |
| ClientDisconnect() | "called when a player disconnects from a server" |
| SetChangeParms() | "call to set parms for self so they can be saved for a level transition" |
| SetNewParms() | "called when a client first connects to a server. sets parms so they can be saved off for restarts" |
| entity function name | brief description |
| .think() | called for each entity in the world as soon as global time becomes larger than the specific .nextthink timestamp |
| .touch() | called for entities which have collided with each other per physics rules |