make train kill Created 13 years ago2011-08-09 12:01:07 UTC by salmon

I have a func_train and it's not solid. I want it to hurt/kill players when they touch it. Is that possible?

Have you checked the "Not Solid" flag in the func_train's properties?

(Unless you meant you wanted a non-solid train which kills people (what's the point?).)

yes I meant it's non-solid and I want it to kill people.

I don't think you can do such a thing in vanilla Half-Life, but if you use Spirit of Half-Life you can just parent a func_hurt to the train have it move with the train.

I tried that, it didn't work :

Okay, how do I know what I got? And I'm not mapping for half life but team fortress classic so does it matter then? Also I don't want to get like a mod so the game requires a plugin to play my map.

In that case there's nothing you can do about it, unless TFC has a specific entity or something that does what you want, but i highly doubt that.

Is there any way to work around it? It doesn't have to be a train.

Try using env_laser with func_train.

Yes, you can use env_beam with 255 (max) width or a lot of trigger_hurt activated by multi_manager one by one. It depends on what you want to do.

Oh, if you used two (or more) invisible non-solid trains following the same path as the original one (set them in front of the original using origin brushes), you could use an invisible env_beam to go between them. Sorta like:(Bad MSPaint magic!)
Would that work? Or would the beams just go from the origins, meaning you'd need two extra paths for the trains?

If what you want is a ghost train to run over people, you don't have to make it non-solid, you just have to render it semi-transparent with an env_render

Do you mind if I ask about the context of your intended setup? Perhaps there's another way to do what you want.

What DiscoStu said, If we knew what exactly you wanted to do, we could think of a way to make it work.

Well I sorta got a way to do it and it seems to work.
I had this big chamber with a laser going up and down. (not env_laser but that's the func_train) It was just a big red semi-transparent brush, filling up the canvas of the room. Idea was to get to top of this chamber before laser.
So I looked into env-lasers and env-beams and thought I could have same effect if I placed enough of them and used them the same way. It also looks 100 times cooler.

yeah you can do that, but it will take a couple days of hard entity work and constant trouble fixing to make it work properly in sync.