Colors Created 19 years ago2004-07-13 20:18:57 UTC by Paintballa

In my map, im trying to make something like a dance floor, very simple one at that. I can only find 3 colors to use on the brushes though, blue, red, and black. What, if any, other colors are in the texture applications menu?

Search for 'gen'. You should find some different colors/textures and some of them are animating which might look nice on a dance floor.

Well, instead of a dance floor, i made a maze type thing. But having a problem with this. I made a path of blocks across the room, and everything around the path a Trigger_hurt, so if u take a wrong step, u die. But when i tested map, everything that was trigger_hurt was invisible, but i could still see the path fine. Anyways to fix this?

Trigger brushes are always rendered invisible. You have to make a brush around them if you want to see where the trigger_hurt is.

if i put a brush the exact same size as the trigger hurt ONTOP of the trigger, will it still kill you? I dont want people to know the difference in the game between the path, and the rest that will kill you.

If you make the brush a func_illusionary, the player will be able to walk through it. Otherwise, it just acts as a solid world brush.

O, yeah good idea. Thanks

No Problemo, Se?or.

Eh, ok i put a brush func_illusion , and all is good when you LOOK at it.... but if people are smart they wil just shoot the solids, and figure out the path to take. Thats what i did becuz i forgot the path myself hehe

The tutorial on fences should help you. Find it Here.

Well, that has stuff on letting people shoot through it, but I don't think there's a way to let people walk through them and not shoot through them. It's one or the other.

Eh? What about this?

Making a Real Fence
You might have noticed that in some areas in Half-Life, there are fences that the player can shoot through. It's a simple idea, but it requires a little trick to set up.

You will notice that some entities, including the monster_generic ones that are in the example map as holograms, have a flag called Not Solid that allows you to let the player to walk through them. This has obvious uses, such as... well... for making a hologram. But it won't work for fences, because, firstly, func_wall entites don't have a Not Solid flag, and even if they did, the player would be able to move though as well as bullets. But there is a way round this problem.

It just so happens that func_illusionary was designed to be, um, illusionary, so it's basically a non-solid func_wall, and can be made to display masked textures in the same way as a normal func_wall. Then, to stop the player moving though, you can simply create a 'clip' brush - Select the texture called 'clip', and create a brush. This stops the player moving through, but not bullets... and not monsters. To stop the monsters, create another brush with some texture other than 'clip', and bind it to a func_monsterclip entity. Place all three brushes over each other, and you have a 'real' fence!

This would allow bullets to pass and block players going through.

Yes, but he wants players to go through and not bullets, I think.