Buttons made using JACK not working! Created 3 years ago2021-01-09 16:49:48 UTC by Overscore

Hi, I've been working hard trying to figure out what the issue is, I have a part in my new map where the player needs to go behind the desk to press a button and open a door. But doing this, I figured out that for some reason, none of my buttons work. I kept deleting it and making a new one, even just making a big box as a button, and clicking e would just give me the sound as if there's nothing to interact with. I loaded up the campaign to check if it was universal, and buttons in the regular story work perfectly. What did I do wrong?

To show what I mean, I made a small map with a button that turns on a light in front of it.However, when I run the map, it simply spawns with the light on by default, and the button just acts like a func_wall.I've been using Seedees tools if that means anything, and I'm having no compile errors with these settings.What am I doing wrong?

does the button have a target?

does the button have a name?

does the button have a master?

does the button have any flags set?

what FGD files are you using?

does the light have "initially dark" set in flags?

The only fgd files I'm using are halflife.fgd, zhlt.fgd, and sdhlt.fgd, which is seedees tools.

The button has a target. I have given the button a name and a target, it has no flags, it doesn't have a master. It's still not working. Do I really need a master just for a button to work by default?

It's probably because the 'Health' attribute of your buttons is set to 1. That makes them only react to being shot.

I've got the same problem here. I normally press Ctrl+T to turn a brush into an entity, which turns it into the default brush entity (func_detail for me). I then start typing 'func_button' in the Class field, but by the time I type 'func_b' J.A.C.K. has selected 'func_breakable', and it'll add the attributes of that entity (including their default values). This sets 'Health' to 1. When I get to 'func_bu', J.A.C.K. knows it must be a func_button, but now it won't overwrite the existing 'Health' attribute anymore. Selecting 'func_button' from the Class dropdown list instead avoids the func_breakable detour.

That's really weird, thanks a million.