func movelinear question

[timberghost_paintball]

I'm toying with the idea of having some moving elements in my map particularly around on the the control points. My first idea was to have the 3rd cp on a gravelpit style map on top of a large piston like platform that slowly moved up and down and paused for a few seconds at the end of each stroke. from my preliminary investigation it does not appear that the cp prop elements can be parented to a moving object so this may not work but if anyone has an idea on how to do it I would appreciate some advice. The second idea was to build some brush objects that would move up and down and temporarily block access / view to the cp with the idea that a well timed attack may be able to use these brushes to block some sentry positions for a short while.

While I figure I can use a onFullyClosed/Open and then close/open outputs on the move linear entity to control the platform I don't know how to get it to start in the firstplace (it needs to loop without direct user input). So if anyone has any advice in general on this topic I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Narkissus]

Logic timer seems to be the best way to get something to loop without direct user input.

 

[timberghost_paintball]

thanks for the info I was able to get a logic relay to do the job of getting the piston moving, now I got to figure out if I can get the cap point entities to go with it

 

[Pseudo]

To parent the entities try sending them a SetParent input ingame using a logic_auto or something. It will show up as an error while in Hammer but it should be supported by the game.

Edit: I just did some testing. The SetParent method does work. Another method that works is to manually add the "parentname" keyvalue by turning off SmartEdit.