Help with door_rotating Created 20 years ago2004-03-06 02:19:01 UTC by Meatwad2k

Hola, new to the forums here so please don't tell me that this has been posted already. I am making a map for Scientist Hunt for a group of friends and in the map theres a big pool with monstermakers for ihcthyosaurs. I have switches to activate everything. Theres a cage above the pool with monstermakers set with scientists. Theres a func_door_rotating that he stands on, supposably, i press a switch and door opens and he drops in and gets eaten, but it never opens when he is inside the cage. Any help at all would be great, thanks.

Do u have an origin brush?

Welcome to TWHL! Hmmm... hard to say from the description. In addition to Anthony's suggestion make sure the door's name and the button's target match exactly... it's good policy not to use any capital letters. If you post the RMF in the Problem Maps section of the vault I'll take a peek at it in the morning. Well, later in the morning after the sun comes up.

Also no spaces in the name, use underscores if u REALLY have to otherwise nothing else

Ok thx guys,it uses a few wad files for the mod though but its based on the HL.fgd. Yea I do have an origin brush, the button and door have the exact names they need to be, but the scientist never drops unless its empty or if its got gibs in it I guess I'll post it, u can probably avoid the .wads because its only in the living room area of the house and the outside, in which you cant go, and theres no skybox yet.

There are some really bizarre problems with putting Sci's to death. More often than not they don't want to go.
The problem with your func_door_rotating is that it is interacting with the Sci. (I don't know why, I have just seen it happen)
You are going to have to try a few things and see what works. I have posted a few ideas at the Vault.
Another one that I know works is changing the func_door_rotating to a func_door (trapdoor like-not swinging) make it move fast and it will drop your Sci.

There are some really bizarre problems with putting Sci's to death. More often than not they don't want to go.

Ah, not just me then, I was having trouble getting one to die from falling from a func_breakable into a pool of slime. He kept popping back up and floating and crazy stuff.

Even those chickens have basic survival instincts! I managed a fix using a multimanager and a trigger_push... it seems doors / walls / whatever get stuck if the sci is standing on it. A tiny properly timed push, and bye-bye sci guy!

Heh, I fixed it but in a kinda lame way, I changed it to a func_door instead of rotating. My avatar is a screenshot i took from the level, as you can see the sci didn't drop so the (i have no idea why) icky flew out of the water and started gnawing at his ankles. Thanks for the help anyway, much appreciation.

Another one that I know works is changing the func_door_rotating to a func_door (trapdoor like-not swinging) make it move fast and it will drop your Sci.

You calling my fix lame?
Them's fighting words Meatwhatever....

And yeah Crash... good work, thinking outside the square.

(quickly muttered) your definition of the square may differ from that of VALVe plc