Fade to White?

[Prettyman]

I'm trying to create an effect where a player steps into a room, the screen fades to white, and they are teleported to another part of the map as the world fades back in. I have the teleporting part done, but the fading to white part is proving to be difficult.

I tried using a color_correction_volume, but the color-corrector didn't allow me to go full-white. There must be a better way, like simply having a white texture overlay the screen, and have it fade in and out based on whether or not a player is in a trigger.

Can somebody please help me out? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[DaBeatzProject]

you could try env_fade! but i'm not 100% sure if it works for individual players or all players in the server. But give it a try - I used it in whalerace, with some funky results

 

[Prettyman]

That was quick! I'll give it a shot! Thank you!

Edit: I looked it up on the wiki, and it would be perfect, but the flag I need to activate isn't in the game. It says it's flag 4: Personal, but it isn't available in the SDK. Is there a way to make it available, or is it not functional in TF2?

 

[Languid]

env_fade works on all players in the server, from what I've used it for. I'm not sure how you'd get around that..

 

[tyler]

you can't!

 

[Prettyman]

you can't!

Aw, nuts. Oh well, I'll think of something. Thanks, everyone!

 

[honeymustard]

Surely you could do something like a trigger which enables a bunch of really bright sprites in succession.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

yes but sprites don't affect the viewmodel i think, so that wouldn't really work. but reaaaaaaaaaaally bright light entities COULD do the trick though.

like,

REEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLYYYYYYYYY bright.

 

[Wander]

what about color_correction ?
I actually thought color_correction_volume didnt work in tf2, as the dev wiki says its part of episode 1, and only for single player games apart from l4d

You can give it a distance so it only works for players near it, and you can give it a fadein and fadeout duration

Ive used it once in a movie theatre related map, where everyone would see black and white in a part of the spawn
Note though that people can switch color corrections off in their video settings

 

[Penguin]

does env_screenoverlay not work?

 

[Seba]

env_screenoverlay is for all players I think.

 

[Penguin]

no, you can do it on a per client basis

 

[HellJumper]

no, you can do it on a per client basis

Using env_screenoverlay ?

 

[Empyre]

You can expect complaints about the presence of teleports in your map. I got plenty when I tried some in my map.

 

[tyler]

unless it's a trade map or worse

 

[Prettyman]

I'm using them as a makeshift elevator, seeing as moving surfaces are a bit iffy in TF2. They're just to get up to the next level of a tower.