A bored entity guru...

A Boojum Snark

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...creates things that melt people's minds in the real world, let alone in Hammer...

Make sure you go to the Youtube page to see who made the song!


After having the idea hit me and quickly thinking out how I would do it, it took about 4-5 hours to find the entities I could use because I had trouble figuring out what code and functions were supported on what entities :( (totally not consistant or reliable, mind you)
After that it was only about 90 minutes of construction to put it all together.
Then it took me 2 days to make the video. :p

What's it made of?

All 26 cubes are func_physbox with all physics simulation disabled. Each of the six sides has a trigger_multiple for detecting the cubes and a momentary_rot_button for rotating the cubes.
The 48 activation panels are grouped into 12 damage-activated func_buttons.

How's it work?

When you shoot one of the buttons the following sequence occurs:
• All buttons are locked.
• The required trigger_multiple is enabled, tying the 9 func_physbox residing on that side to the m_r_b via SetParent.
• m_r_b is told to rotate 90 degrees (position 0 or 1, it has a 180 degree range and starts at .5).
• trigger_multiple disables.
• m_r_b reaches the rotated position.
• func_physboxs have their parent cleared (delayed input from the trigger).
• m_r_b reverts itself to the centered position (delayed self input from finishing its movement).
• All buttons unlock.

Matt wanted I/Os too, so here: bing bong

I wanted to attach it since it doesn't really fit into downloads... there is no "random entity madness cause snark was being ridiculous" category. :rolleyes: But apparently it's too big for an attachment, so tut resources will have to do... Download

Also: cookies to whoever is first to guess how I colored the puzzle without decompiling or using console commands.
 
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Ninjilla

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Wow Boojum, thats rather crazy. I didnt even know that was possible in tf2?!:wow:
 

NovaSilisko

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Fucking awesome.

@ The vid and my song being used =p
 

l3eeron

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you gotta be shittin' me....

You are my hero.
 

TheDarkerSideofYourShadow

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Interesting. While watching the video I was thinking about how I try and accomplish something like this, and I think you have a very interesting solution there Snark. Btw, how much would it cost to get a copy of your memories so I could know all these cool entity tricks?
 

HojoTheGreat

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You sir, are a beautiful freak of nature. That's absurd! I want to show it to everyone I know, and yet have no one to show it to who would appreciate it. Fantastic.
 

Pendaz

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nice man good work


watching the vid i was thinking... hmm, i wonder if he knows how to solve it... ;)

do you get the "z0mg he must be weird" when people learn that you can solve a rubix cube? lol

gg tho
 

Dustoxx

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Awesome!

Maybe people are going to play competitions with this; 'TF2 speed solving':p
 
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Now make it solve itself :)

Or scramble iteself
 

YM

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do you get the "z0mg he must be weird" when people learn that you can solve a rubix cube? lol

I get quite the opposite.

As someone who can do a rubik's cube I never found any of the digital representations of it any fun, since they're slow to turn, you can't always look at them how you would in real life and rather than turning the middle one once you have to turn the ouer two the other way..
So yeah, impressive that you managed it.. but talk about pointless! :p
 
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I used to be able to do a cube - by the method Boojum used in the video - in about 3-4 minutes, and people were generally quite impressed by it, I remember I had to do it like 5 times one lunch time.

But then I forgot how to do all of it, except the first face, I forgot all after that.
 

A Boojum Snark

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Btw, how much would it cost to get a copy of your memories so I could know all these cool entity tricks?
Five souls and a bathing machine.

I want to show it to everyone I know, and yet have no one to show it to who would appreciate it.
Yeah really... all my entity work only impresses if you've ever worked with them yourself.

Maybe people are going to play competitions with this; 'TF2 speed solving':p
One for each team? First to solve wins?! :p or I was thinking I could make it be the payload for no reason other than giving people something to mess with while pushing.

Now make it solve itself :)
Or scramble iteself
I had thought about both of these actually. The only way I see that I could scramble it would be to have a system that locks the cube and automatically performs randomized rotations, it wouldn't be possible to 'insta-scramble'.

As for solving... mostly the same. I was thinking I could do some method of recording every action taken, and then reverse them all. But that's a lame and boring method of "solving".

So yeah, impressive that you managed it.. but talk about pointless! :p
Being pointless is the whole point! I'll find myself building things just to see if I can.

it´s early in the morning, and my brain popped out and now sits quietly weeping in the corner because it feels overpowered by what it just saw....
Best comment in the thread.
 

DJive

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it´s early in the morning, and my brain popped out and now sits quietly weeping in the corner because it feels overpowered by what it just saw....

Also Nova

Sick tune you have there man