Organic/Natural Path Blocking Created 13 years ago2010-09-02 19:00:18 UTC by Notewell

So, I'm trying to create a natural blockage in a road to prevent player passage, and, in accordance to the setting (warehouses) I'm using trucks, a fuel tanker and a truck with barrels in the back.(the skytextured area is a result of cordon compiles, that area will have a building in it soon)
Now, even without the barrels, it's simple to get overtop of it, because you can climb over the oil tanker using crouch jumping and walk over it. Clipping it would amount to adding an invisible wall on top of the area the player would want to go. So, any ideas on how to organically block the player's progress using this as a base? Or just using the road as a base? I'm not picky about keeping the trucks, because I can always save it as a prefab to use elsewhere if I really want to.

Oh, and a gate/fence combo won't really work, because I already have one on the other side of the intersection. (not shown in the pic)

Thanks in advance!

Fire?

Perhaps, but it would have to be a wall of insta-kill (tm) fire.
It could work. Any other ideas? (this could become a general purpose thread if needed)

Firetruck? Railway + train? Fenced off part of the road that's under construction + road roller? Crashed airplane? Gigantic cat?

All...

Gigantic cat?

All Mostly good ideas! Keep it coming, please!

Gigantic cat

Delivered.

o u.

Huntey, you're awesome.

How about a truck that's crashed into a building? You could have huge chunks of the building surrounding the truck: it would give it the blockage some height without having to resort to an obvious clip brush (you'd still have one obviously, but it wouldn't be apparent). You could also have parts of it on fire, but I'd steer clear of Insta-Death fire: players are curious and will want to see how far they can push the boundaries of a playing field. Killing them instantly isn't really a great mechanic. Simply have it burn the player, as briefly touching fire normally would.

If all else fails, gigantic cat ftw.

Okay, I'll look into those suggestions, thanks everyone!
Huntey, that cat is awesome. If I had a cat model, I'd make a special version just for that.

Nintendo already did it.

True. But they didn't do it in an industrial area, they did it on routes.

Jeff that tanker is more than enough to tell the player "Hey, you can't get past me".

All you gotta do is put a big playerclip brush over it and stretch it up to the sky so that no one can monkey their way out of your map.

The thing is, you can get past it. Remember the HL2 map with the battery operated gate, and how you could jump over the tanker in the buggy, or climb over it yourself? Besides, players will always try to get past something they're not supposed to.

Anyway, this is more of a headache than I thought it would be. The model based rubble itself was easy, if time consuming, but now I have to "blast" a huge hole in the middle of the building to explain where it all came from. Which means I have to make a realistically destroyed wall in the side, and then one inside that to explain the wall in the middle of the pile, and a floor because the hole is two stories tall. Then I'll have to detail the rooms inside.
It shouldn't be this hard.

I'm definitely posting a pic of that area once I'm done though, even if only to justify the work it's taking.

Yeah, just fit it in between the walls the best you can and clip it off.

EDIT: Chainlink fence. Just block it off and place a no trespassing sign on it.

I'll do that next time. I've already done everything but detailing the interior of the building, and I refuse to scrap that much work on creating a hole in the wall.

Do what I do. In the middle of a sensible, realistic residential setting - block the road with a ship.

lol!

brilliant

I keep meaning to post the picture of the finished blockage. It's been done for over a week now.
EDIT: Here it is!It looks much better ingame, but you get the gist of it. Whoops, was I supposed to get the blockage? Oh well, the hole looks better.

I think the hole would look a hell of a lot better if the bricks weren't so perfectly broken, that only looks good on surfaces like flat concrete or plaster.
Bricks and cinder blocks don't just get cut in half when something is chucked through a wall; You get a whole bricks missing and whole bricks remaining along the edge.

Doesn't that wall look a bit thin?

lol, ultra-thin bricks!
Hey if they're that thin you don't even need a truck to break through them, srry's gigantic cat could of done it!

hint hint, stick a cat in the hole! ...wait that doesn't sound right.

You really picked a hard way to go about it. Industrial complexes have these overhead pipe carriers, truck hits a pole, the thing twists down, blocking what the truck doesn't.

Also use the industrial fact to your advantage. These plays get "upgraded" all the time. Rip up a section of pavement, lay a pipe, cover it up. Completely random. Good for breaking up samey enviroments. Same with the buildings, they tend to be erected as required, concrete one day, corrugated metal the next, throw up an office out of those awesome prefab walls...

Soup: True, I was doing that, but it just didn't look right on the texture fsr. And yeah, the bricks are a bit thin.
And I am using the industrial fact to my advantage a little; while they're mostly corrugated warehouses, I have offices in brick and concrete.

Of course, I'm not working on this map anymore; I'm leaving it for a while and hopefully coming back to make it larger and better looking later. But I'll try to remember everything but the cat and the ship.

PERFECT!
So i smell castle disposed: source?

It's not dead it's just... I never intended to release it this year.
It's for a project that I'm making in small chunks.
Which reminds me, I should start writing the script.

castle disposed: source

Shit, I'll miss that chance to make the huge castle I always wanted to make.

Usually when people say "i'm moving on from it now and will finish it later", what they mean is "i'm moving on from it and will never finish it later".

Well, it's not like anything of value would be lost, now is it?

Your life.