Trigger brush overlapping

Balls

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Feb 15, 2015
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Hey,

I'm working on a jump map and I'm at the point where I need to make several trigger_teleport and func_nogrenades brushes. In some cases this is as simple as duplicating the solid brush, positioning it above the original and shrinking it to 1 unit high.

However in some of these cases I need multiple sides of the solid brush to be covered by a trigger. If we assumed that I needed a cube shaped brush covered, should I duplicate the brush and extend it 1 unit in all directions, or create 6 brushes, one for every face and tie them to the same entity?

I know that both these methods would work, so I'm interested to find out which would be considered a better solution.

Thanks
 

Balls

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When you make triggers the entire brush should be the toolstrigger texture.

I know. Perhaps I didn't explain well... My question is regarding which way I should use trigger brushes. One brush with a big overlap or six brushes with no overlap.
 

killohurtz

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You can safely have a trigger brush intersecting another brush, so there is no need to create a separate trigger for each side of a solid brush.
 

Balls

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Thanks for the replies. My only concern was if there would be some impact on performance this way, but I'm very glad not because one brush will take far less time and look less messy in hammer too.

The only thing to keep in mind is that trigger origins cannot be located in the void of the map or it will leak (inside of walls is fine).

Yes I discovered this last week :). See: the 20 odd leaks I created while using the vertex tool :D