Resizing prop_static

[cruizer]

Hey all,
Is there a way to resize or crop a prop_static?

I am currently making a prison wall, I wanted barbed wire on the top. There is no world model that is just the top of a barbed wire fence, so I used the whole fence and sunk it into the wall, so that jsut the barbed wire sections shows. Looks JUST like I want it too.

Problem is, now I need to make a doorway in the wall, and the fence is in the way.

 

[Vilepickle]

This ain't the q3 engine, can't do useful things like this

 

[Snipergen]

Yep, this is terrible and sadly true, you cannot change the scale of the props.

 

[YM]

its so true

 

[cruizer]

Well, that screws my whole idea!

 

[trainRiderJ]

Is there a way to hide a part of the prop you don't want people to see?

 

[cruizer]

Ok, so is there a program that youcan use to redo the models as you need them?

 

[Snipergen]

decompile and recompile yes.

 

[Fingersniffer]

I know I'm not experienced with this sort of thing but couldn't he turn the fence upside down and put No Draw around the part of the fence he doesn't want? Would that work?

 

[Snipergen]

No, nodraw will still render the stuff in it, nodraw is for a brush to hide the faces you don't see.
Or am i wrong too?

 

[cruizer]

decompile and recompile yes.

Ohh ohh! what program is that?

 

[Shmitz]

If any part of a model is rendered, the entire model will be rendered. There's no way to hide it unless you bury it in something, but I get the impression that's not what's being asked.

 

[poopster101]

can you use an occlusion?
or am i way off?

 

[YM]

Don't know a huge amount about occluders but I'm pretty sure they only hide the model if it is completely behind the occluder and then it will hide the whole model, so you're pretty far off I think

 

[grazr]

An occluder will.. "occlude" an object if it's origin is obscured by the occluder. If you can see the models origin it will be rendered.

EDIT: Just a query, whats prop_scalable? Doesn't that allow you to scale a model for use in the 3dskybox? Could it be used here? Or am i way off? I've never used one before..

 

[l3eeron]

I think toolss/invisible texture will work

 

[poopster101]

possibly but then you still cant walk through it
which is what i think he wants to do

 

[cruizer]

possibly but then you still cant walk through it
which is what i think he wants to do

Exactly!

 

[Earl]

Looks like you're just not going to have barbed wire above your gate.... Maybe you could think of something else to put above it?

 

[Scoobingsthe2nd]

maybe I'm missing something... but there is different scales of the fence you're using already. About as many different lengths as you could ever use. Why don't you just use those?