I'm rusty help me out. Created 11 years ago2013-03-05 00:27:58 UTC by camplo

2 things I want to accomplish. 1 - I have blocks suspended in thin air as a inclining path, if you will. I would like to make each block bob and weave as if "magically" moving in place.

2 - Can I do transparency without having the texture glow?

you should be able to make those func_doors, or if you want to go the fancier route, trains.
As for the transparency, set the render mode to texture and modify the fx value.

You could do it the way TetsuO said, but it would probably be a good idea to make the floating blocks non-solid, and have stationary ones textured with the clip texture, assuming the blocks don't move enough for this to be noticable.
The constantly moving blocks might cause clipping errors and make moving up the path a pain, hence this method.

1 lots of ways, with train u can make it spin and move up n down at the same time

2 no but u can make the texture darker or lower increase the transparency

Tetsuo + TJB = your answer.

Yeah i'd actually recommend TJB's method if the vertical discrepancy is less than about 10 units.

Maybe I worded it wrong. OK lets say I have a skin for a ladder. And I want the blue parts to remain invisible ingame, but I don't want that glow that func_walls and fun_ills have, rather no glow like a regular world brush or a func_detail.

I don't understand, func_walls don't glow. Perhaps you could explain it better with a picture.

he's taking about the unnaturally-brighter lighting on transparent brushes in hl1. i think all brush-based entities are lit this way, but maybe it's worse using the texture rendermode?

maybe there is a way around this using vhlt or spirt, but i doubt it since bruce already said there isn't

yeahhhh i think no matter what you do it's going to be odd. Unless you use a model and it animates, with no collision, with a clip brush hidden inside it