fall, fade and load -help please- Created 20 years ago2004-07-04 14:00:42 UTC by musse

um... there sure must be the simplest of solutions to this problem but i'll ask for help anyhow cause i'm spent:
i'm working on a short sp map with a small xen part to it. i'm having a problem with it though. when the players jumps or falls off the edge of the meteorite/space ground thingie to his death i haven't a clue how to make it the original hl way. i want the player to fall for some time, screen fading to black, and then automatically load from the last save.
i've managed to make the screen fade with a trigger and env_fade but the loading part is still a problem. i surely don't want the player to crash at the bottom of the sky box with a loud smack and splash(?)...

oh and hello everybody my first post here (good forum!) and sorry for typos and shaitty language.

I checked out the entitys from c4a1.bsp with ripent and seems like VALVe used player_loadsaved to load a saved game when falling.

i browsed through a gazillion tutorials and browsed through all the entities until my eyes started to bleed. thank you for solving my problem. now me feels quite stupid...

You need to add just a few things to make this work. Add a trigger_autosave at the beginning of the level, it's a brush based entity; just place it so the player starts within the trigger_autosave. You'll also need a player_loadsaved, which is a point-based entity; just place it anywhere in the map and give it a name. You are already having the player fall through a trigger_once which targets the env_fade. But now you'll need to make the trigger_once target a multimanager instead. Have the multimanager target the env_fade and the player_loadsaved. That way when the player falls through the trigger, it will target the multimanager and the screen will fade and the player will respawn at the last save point.

yeah i already have an autosave at the start... no need for the multimanager either. the player_loadsaved has a built in fade mechanism to it... so all i need is the player_ls for the effect...