Payload pulley system?

[OctoBlitz]

Hello everyone, I have a question about payload carts and parts of the map moving. I am currently scrapping my original concept for the mayann project map I had based off of koth and have decided to go with a payload map taking place in a variety of mayan ruins and cave systems. A certain part of my map I am making needs to get the payload cart up onto a ledge and I thought it would be interesting if it were to have a sort of elevator/lift system where the cart will be pulled up by a pulley system and turned to where the track is facing. I am basing this idea off of Barnblitz with the turntable after you cap the first area. If anyone has any ideas on how I should do this or have any ideas for this map please feel free to reply to this post to help.

Thanks,
BlitzVS

 

[Joshenkstone]

Mhhh you could maybe have a look at the decompiled version of hightower thet has a lift at the end.

 

[OctoBlitz]

Mhhh you could maybe have a look at the decompiled version of hightower thet has a lift at the end.

you know what, I completely forgot about Hightower... Kudos man!

 

[Joshenkstone]

you know what, I completely forgot about Hightower... Kudos man!

Haha no problem.

 

[OctoBlitz]

Ok, so I took a look at Hightower and I saw that the lifts for both sides have two seperate track paths, one for the cart itself, and the other for the lift dubbed track_clamp... Problem is, could I use a brush for it or do I need to use a model for the lift...

 

[henke37]

Doesn't hightower use a brush? It's still a func_tracktrain, isn't it?

 

[OctoBlitz]

Doesn't hightower use a brush? It's still a func_tracktrain, isn't it?

I don't really know, all I saw was it had more than one path on the lift....

 

[Joshenkstone]

After some diggin' around the internet i found this tutorial for creating elevators on tf2map.net:
http://tf2maps.net/threads/tutorial-the-elevator-trifecta.719/

There is also a page about elevators on the valve developer wiki: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Elevators

I tought i'd just let you know they exist as seen they might be handy in some way.