Teleport With Effects Example

Example of a teleporter with effects that occur on entering.
If you've got any questions, leave them in the comments or contact me by other means.

Features

On entering, the teleporter:

• Plays a sound.
• Activates a fade effect.
• Telefrags anything in a volume around the destination.

Notes

• The scientist can be used to test the telefrag feature.
• The delays in the multi_managers may have to be tweaked for multiplayer to take latency into account.
• The teleport in this example wasn't designed to work for monsters or pushables.

Included map sources

• .rmf
• .jmf

How to add an effect?

In case you don't know how to make the teleport do something new, like adding a sprite flash at the destination point, you should read this.

There are two triggers on top of the teleport pad: a trigger_teleport - the wider one, and a trigger_multiple - the taller one. If you look at the properties of the trigger_multiple, its Target field is set to tele_event. All you need to do is give the entity you want to be triggered whenever the teleport is entered the same name as the one in the trigger_multiple's Target field. For example, to add a sprite effect that flashes at the destination, you'll need:

• A multi_manager.
• An env_sprite.

First, you need to set up the env_sprite:

1. Place the env_sprite at the destination spot.
2. Open its properties.
3. Give it a name and pick a sprite to use.
4. Make sure you've set the FX Amount to a well-visible level and Render Mode to the desired mode.

Next, you'll have to configure your multi_manager:

1. Give it a name.
2. If you're using a Hammer-like editor, turn SmartEdit off.
3. Add new field using one of the buttons on the right.
4. Set the name of the field to the name of your env_sprite. Set the value to 0.
5. Add another field, with the same name as the previous. Set the value to a delay in seconds - this will determine how long your sprite flash will last. I'd go with a value of 0.1 or 0.2.
6. Turn SmartEdit back on.

Compile and run your map, then test the setup out. In case it doesn't work, double-check - you may have done something wrong along the way. If nothing helps, leave a comment or contact me by other means.