infinite weapon boxes Created 19 years ago2005-10-06 13:18:15 UTC by Darth Duvet

How do you create a weapon box that will give you infinite (or near to) of a weapon? I can't even get it to create anything. Please be axplain clearly, i am a bit of a n00b to mapping. cheers for any help

You want weapon boxes in HL? I know there are ammo boxes in HL2, maybe you posted in the wrong forum?

Otherwise, for HL, a monstermaker entity could do the job, spawning a weapon everytime you trigger it (instead of spawning monsters, it can also be set to spawn a specific weapon). Read up on that entity on this site for more information.

almost works, but it will only create one in the beggining and no more, will play with options a bit a see what happens

nope. still wont work. I am using a monstermaker like your said, have set:

montser type - weapon_egon
number of monsters - 900
frequency - 1
max live children - 1

and i have checked 'start on' under flags, what am i doing wrong?

Trigger it each time you want a weapon. The settings look good otherwise.

Max live childern -1??? Are you mad!?! The game can't render 5000 guns or so!! Change it to 10-20.

He has put a - between the keys and the values so that 1 is just fine already, Elon...

Oh...whoops. Write in the 'number of monsters' value -1(with the minus) to make it infinite!

No No No you guys have it all wrong. Remimber in the Xen levels when you got your ammo from dead HEV guy's ammo ummm.. tubes?

Anyway I believe there is a weapon box entity in there with the other weapon entitys take a look at that.

This is what you need. Check out this tutorial how it works:

http://twhl.co.za/entityinfo.php?ent=weaponbox&game=1

why not just place 20 of that weapon in the same place?

Kinda useless, becuase you can decide what you want to give to the player when he picks up a weapon_box. It is all in that tutorial.

I thought he wanted a weapon that will never disapear! :