A wall exclusive for the player? Created 8 years ago2015-06-21 02:27:43 UTC by 23-down

Hey I've been wondering about this for many years now. This time I truly require it.. Is there some special texture similar to the translucent texture which however is invisible yet allows npcs and everything else but the player through it?

The issue is that there's a train line below me and a train also actually passes by with the G-Man in it unfortunately you can jump into the tunnel below where the G-man drives by.

Naturally I could simply create a func_wall_toggle or clip brush on top where the player walks however I wanna try to have as little invisible walls as possible in order not to hinder the players in their freedom or to make it to linear.

Is there anything I could do?

I'm not sure I understand. Isn't an invisible wall exactly what you're talking about? You want an invisible brush that doesn't let the player through... yet you don't want an invisible brush?

Without seeing your exact situation, not sure how it would be an issue in the first place, but I believe you

Maybe a trigger_multiple that would activate a func_wall_toggle(only by the player), unless you've tried that already.

Possibly a teleporter to allow everything through but the player with the

no players, entity only/monsters/pusables 

flags checked, and you could have a solid wall in-between to physically block players, although it would probably look too unnatural.

Doesn't a clip brush do exactly this?

^ Yeah Stu, I'm not sure. They behave exactly this way in source afiak

According to Tommy14 you can shoot through them, but he doesn't mention monsters nor other entites..

Brushes textured with CLIP allow everything to pass through it, monsters, player bullets, monster bullets, light, all that, except the player.

Yarp, it's why there's a specific monsterclip entity

The thing is I've got this train and I placed a clip brush on his route.. G-Man gets stuck in the clip brush and so does the train.

A func_wall would have the same effect wouldn't it?

A monsterclip is forbidding npcs to cross through I need an entity or texture that forbids the player only to pass by not the npc though.

Any ideas?

@TheMightyAtom: Well I've tried that and it did not clip always acted solid - always in fact you can use it as ground texture if you wanted to. To smoothen out corners where the player could get stuck.

A clipnull perhaps ? I've never used that one ever before?

monsterclips clip the monsters but not the player. sounds like you want a 'playerclip'. I dont think something like this exists

Naturally I could simply create a func_wall_toggle or clip brush on top where the player walks however I wanna try to have as little invisible walls as possible in order not to hinder the players in their freedom or to make it to linear.

That would be the way to do it, but since you dont want to do that then you may want to get creative with architecture. maybe have the lower tunnel be electrified or something, or rails that block the sides. Something like that.

Ah to sad then... Well in this case a Trigger_hurt will suffice. Thanks.
Some of those fancy compiler construction guys should create something like that... I could see many useful situations for a brush or entity such as this.

What about an agressive func_push only set to player?