Making Panes of Glass? Created 18 years ago2006-09-13 22:49:20 UTC by happyman

I can't seem to find a tutorial on making glass panes or chainlink fences or other things of that sort... Can somebody either point me to a tutorial that explains this, or explain it here?

Thanks, again...

-HappyMan the Hammer Noob

for glass you tie a brush (a cube, or rectang, or whatever you created to be the glass) to a func_breakable. then tell it to be render mode texture and somewhere around a renderamt of 140, which will give it transparency.

then you set the value of damage it takes to shatter it.

as for chainlink fences, and texture that has a { before its name and has blue areas in it, can be tied to either a func_wall (for non breakable) or a func_breakable (if you want to be able to shatter it) with render mode solid and render ammount 255.

that will make the blue areas see through

Hmm... How do you make a func_breakable?

theres a hotkey, or you can press ToEntity on the side bar.

although you have to have Halflife.fdg loaded into hammer for an entity list, read the seting up worldcraft/hammer tutorial if you don't have everything setup already

Yeah, the TWHL tutorial section is great for things like this - it coveres things from glass and func_rotatings to usable turrets and NPC setups. A lot of it is the same for Source, too... if you ever get the urge to come over to the dark side .