Spirit help! Created 20 years ago2004-06-15 18:29:04 UTC by ZeG

I just installed the Spirit mod... But i dont know something about it. People says: That is so cool with spirite you can make everything with it! But how to do the amazing stuff. To exampel how to do a moving car, train, flight etc... with a breakable object.

With the "move with" feature, if i'm not mistaken. Look over on the main spirit site on how to use it.

Thank you alot... Do you another cool thing you can do with spirit?

Meh, i've never really used it, but I know there's some nice "speak as" stuff so you can make barneys talk as scis, etc. plus some trigger_command for console commands and some changecvar stuff. Plus a lot more, take a look at README.htm and some example maps.

Why don't you visit Spirit's website? It's right over here:

http://spirit.valve-erc.com/

The Spirit website is a little bare. There is a tut on the VERC for 3 nice spirit effects and one here on setting it up. Included with Spirit is a set of Aurora effects which are simply point based entities assigned to a file in the spirit folder (similar to a sprite). These effects are quite nice. To use them:

1. Take a look in your spirit folder (C:SIERRAHalf-Lifespirit) and look for a folder named 'aurora'.
2. Look at the files which end in '.aur'. These are the aurora files you can choose from.
3. Open Hammer. Create a room. Put an info_player_start.
4. Put an 'env_particle' and take a look at the Properties. You need to setup:

*Particle File - The file name of the particle you want. For example, if you want the smoke one it would be 'aurora/smoke.aur'
*Flags - Tick the first box even though theres no writing on it

5. Test your map and look at the cool effect.

lol. Also, if i'm correct, doesn't Spirit enable reflective surfaces? And not the fake ones with 2x the polys, but real, reflective ones.

Only models can be mirrored, not the level architecture.

level architecture would have to be done manually

Basically what your doing with reflections is doubling the architexture. Not good for big maps.

Well I knew 'bout the manual method, but in the Spirit Hazard Course Demo it showed a relective-ish vent opening. If you have it, take a look.

On a side note, can you mirror gordon? Or is player reflection still gone until HL2 (hopefully...)

Yeah I saw the vent thing too, no idea how they did it. Drop a line on the Spirit forums though, they know what they're talking about
As for the Gordon thing, as far as I know, you can't do this in Half-Life.