How are you supposed to make [working] glass doors?

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Ninamori

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I'm looking to make something similar to the doors like on Special Delivery (the glass ones behind you when you spawn in). I found the handles, but I'm not sure how they made the glass part.
 

Egan

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The glass doors on doomsday are actually just brushes situated around the handles:

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This page has a download to the doomsday vmf if you want to see for yourself.
 
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Idolon

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They're made of brushes, using the textures glass/glasswindow002c and metal/metalchrome001. If you want to see exactly how it's done, take a look at this thread of decompiled maps and check out the .vmf for yourself. I'd recommend making the door from scratch yourself, though, because you'll learn more that way.

EDIT: Egan beat me to the punch
 

Ninamori

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So I guess if I wanted to make it look like a pair of moving glass doors I would just make the handles, and brush move as one?
 
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yes
 

Ninamori

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Actually I just noticed that the hinges, the metal bar that goes across is all once piece. I'm pretty sure that I can't get only the middle (where the actual door is) to move on it's own. I think I may have to build a new door from scratch for this one.
 

Pocket

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EDIT: Basically exactly what I was just about to say.

May I suggest copying the doors from Turbine? Doors that swing open and closed are generally discouraged in this game because it's possible for people to get stuck in them.
 

Ninamori

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EDIT: Basically exactly what I was just about to say.

May I suggest copying the doors from Turbine? Doors that swing open and closed are generally discouraged in this game because it's possible for people to get stuck in them.
That's what I am thinking.

That or I could give the door 500 damage, and it would obliterate pretty much anything it gets stuck on, but somehow I think that might tick off people :p.
 
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I put 1 million damage done on a random death train - killed even the uber charges :p
 

henke37

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It is easy to make all parts move as one piece. Put all the brushes in one brush entity and parent all the props to the brush entity.
 

Muddy

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That's what I am thinking.

That or I could give the door 500 damage, and it would obliterate pretty much anything it gets stuck on, but somehow I think that might tick off people :p.

I dunno, that just sounds hilarious.