X-Ray effect Created 20 years ago2004-06-20 23:37:01 UTC by RabidMonkey

Anyone know how in Opposing Force they did the X-Ray effect? In "Crush Depth" where it was malfunctioning and you could see the skeletons of both the poor scientist and hgrunt who walked into the ray? I know how they accomplished the skeleton effect, but I'm wondering how they made the grunt and sci transparent only when viewed through this special glass. On the other side, they look normal, but when looking through the glass they were transparent, obviously due to a rendermode change. Any ideas on how they accomplished the effect of toggling the rendermodes?

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Mkay, thanks.

I think I may know how they used the entity set up as well. They had the skeleton models and the grunt models right over eachother, when you were on a trigger in front of the window, the skeletons were rendered normaland the grunts were rendered invisible, when you left the trigger, the skeletons were rendered invisible and the grunts were rendered normal.

Exactly. I think they had the trigger in front of the door because you could see thru the window across the room, but that's a minor thing.

And I think the skeles were rendered full all the time, while rendering the grunts invisible and full. They fit inside the models without leakin out or anything so the grunts just changed. It saves a little time without having to change the skeles render properties.

It was a pretty cool effect hey?

There is a tutorial on Collective explaining how to produce the Xray effect....
That will reveal all the secrets and provide you with an example map.

Oooh, thank you.