climbable ivy? Created 18 years ago2006-03-23 23:35:10 UTC by shortbus rider

OK...I'm new to this forum and have used a lot of info from this site on the maps I've made, thank you BTW. I have a small problem. I made some ivy on a wall that I want to make climbable. I used a regular ivy texture, not the see-through kind. I made it the same way you make a ladder(yes I know how to make a ladder). It seems to work but when you reach the top of the wall/ivy, it shoots me across the map. Then in my console, it says veleocity to high on 1 and 2. The ivy is irregular in shape. I've tried the copy/paste method, just like making a regular ladder. I've also tried making several ladders side by side. But I get the same result, getting shot across the map(it's kinda funny). Is there another way to do this? I have no errors in my log, it compiles everytime. So I don't know what the deal is. Thanks.

I think this problem happens when you tie more than one brush to a func_ladder, and if that's the case, then that's probably the problem. Instead of copying and pasting, try just making a single rectangle covering the area of the ivy, and that should work.

yup. thats what i did for my map. worked perfectly

I don't think ladders were designed to be used with irregular surfaces like that.

I Don't know about the "shooting across the map" thing, as I've never attempted to create a ladder that is "bumpy", but one thing you could try is placing a CLIP brush over the surface you want to climb against, so you wouldn't actually be climbing on the irregular surface. This should clear the problem up.

Edit: Looks like I'm a little late, and some of my theories have already been disproved.

sry srry

I wish people would stop making lame puns about my name all the time...

thanks for the quick replies. I thought I would post a link to the pic of what I'm talkin about. I'll try the options y'all provided. I think maybe I was gettin caught on a 2 unit thick lip between the texture and the func_ladder. It was funny as hell when I climbed it, and went shooting across the screen. I've never seen that happen before I was like...weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Then I lost all my HP when I landed. the first time i made a copy of that, then pasted it, made it func_ladder, and evertime i went off the ivy, i went shootin across the screen. Was funny but frustrating.

http://www.eps4.net/eps4images/details.php?image_id=1064

That picture makes my comment even more useless.

So it's sorted now, rider?

I'm working on it now. Steam kept crashing on me last night. Gotta love steam. Ever since I added that ivy, as well as some other little things, my compile times went from 30 minutes to 70.

Turn it into an entity for christ sake! You should turn it into a func_wall/illusonary. This way it will make it much easier for vis and in the end a shorter compiling time. You probebly have because of that solid ivy some leaf saw into portal vis errors that makes the compiling much longer.

yeah sounds like a good idea.
Make the ivy a func_illusionary
and under the ivy make a func_ladder in the same shape of the ivy, but have it flat against the wall..

That should work

well, I finally got it to work. Man, what a pain. Thanks for all your help guys. The ivy was already an entity(func_illusionary) so I tried making the ladder the same shape as the ivy, but I still got the same result. Seems everytime I strafed off or moved off the ladder, I would shoot across the map or somewhere else. I guess the HL engine dosn't like weird shaped ladders? The only way I could make it work was making a ladder like the pic below, because I didnt want people climbing on a plain wall(don't laugh, it's only my 3rd map). I dunno why. I tried every suggestion and anything I could think of. I could just be retarded, which is very possible. Anyway, thanks for the help again. You guys rock.
Oh yeah, making some of the subtle changes I made to entities helped a lot with my compile time. Thanks dude!

http://www.eps4.net/eps4images/details.php?image_id=1065