Some beginner's questions

[thunderdraco]

Hi all me again; ive come with more newby questions.

First off how do you make it so that players cannot walk to/through a certain area? Sort of like what you do with the respawn areas where you put up a wall that stops the enemy team from going into the enemy spawn; I want to do that but for areas I dont want people of either team to go. An example would be in hydro where theres this railing on the side of this pathway that goes to like the side of a cliff. You can see the railing and when you see it you think you can jump over the railing and off the cliff, but you cant. I want to know how to do that. Is there some sort of func_entity that i can tie to a brush or something like that?

Also, im curious about how exactly to make water. I really have no idea whatsoever and if theres a tutorial or whatnot on this forum or somewhere can you guys tell me where/tell me how to create water?

Thanks alot!

 

[R3dRuM]

To make players not walk to a certain area, use the tools/playerclip brush, just search playerclip.

So, make a brush where you want to block someone, the make the texture Playerclip, and it will be a invisible wall.

To make water it is fairly simple, search the textures, filter name: tf, then search for water, pick one that suits you. Now, create a brush with the tools/nodraw texture and apply the water texture to the top side of the brush only! Place a env_cubemap entity on the top of it for reflections and you should be good to go.

 

[drp]

to stop a player from going somewhere, just create a brush and add the 'playerclip' texture.

to make water, do the same but add the water texture, same goes for glass, etc.

please keep in mind that water kills fps. use sparingly

 

[YM]

adding water - http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Adding_Water

how to stup a player getting in to the enemys respawn - find the example map from valve and copy/paste the spawn room from that, it already has it in (as well as some other vital things)

Also, use the search tool like mad to find help as well as looking through http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
If you get a problem with compiling, copy/paste your compile log into this - http://www.interlopers.net/index.php?page=errors

 

[thunderdraco]

Wow that was quick. lol thanks a ton guys.

 

[thunderdraco]

ok new question, is it possible to cut like the center of a brush with the clip tool? Also are there any tricks or tips for the clip tool?

 

[YM]

*forehead smack*

Also, use the search tool like mad to find help as well as looking through http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
If you get a problem with compiling, copy/paste your compile log into this - http://www.interlopers.net/index.php?page=errors

I've already answered your question

 

[Nosher]

Hi all me again; ive come with more newby questions.

First off how do you make it so that players cannot walk to/through a certain area? Sort of like what you do with the respawn areas where you put up a wall that stops the enemy team from going into the enemy spawn;

As already posted - player clip is the way to go.........

.......however, it does NOT block bullets......

If you use the BLOCK BULLETS texture, everything will be blocked, INCLUDING players from any side - it is a pure invisible wall, that is utterly solid...

To stop peeps from the other side going into an enemy spawn, create a brush of NO DRAW and then tie it (using the CTRL and T key combo) to a func_respawnroomvisualizer entity.....

..set the associated respawn to the func_respawnroom brush you have already created. Then, only one side will be able to pass that barrier - however, bullets can STILL pass through this one....

Hope that helps.

Nosh.

 

[R3dRuM]

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[flam5]

With regards to Player Clip and Block Bullets -- is there anyway to make one of these invisible textures also REFLECT stickies? I'm not too keen with seeing stickies being able to be stuck in the sky/mid air.

I am familiar with editing textures (all I've done so far is edit a texture to take out its cubemap tags/details so it didn't shine since I don't want it to) I just don't know what tag I would add to the file to make the texture behave like it does when say, it hits a metal door and bounces off.

 

[FernFerret]

When it hits a metal door it is a prop_dynamic, stickies don't stick to prop_dynamics, so i guess you could make it that, but doesn't really sound good for efficiency... Someone else might have a better suggestion, but if it's only used once i guess it's ok...

FernFerret

 

[phatal]

With regards to Player Clip and Block Bullets -- is there anyway to make one of these invisible textures also REFLECT stickies? I'm not too keen with seeing stickies being able to be stuck in the sky/mid air.

I had this problem with some spawns where stickies could spawn camp players. I used func_brush to cover the areas I didn't want the stickies to stick. They will just bounce off instead. You can make these brushes invisible as well which may help in what you are trying to do.

 

[flam5]

I had this problem with some spawns where stickies could spawn camp players. I used func_brush to cover the areas I didn't want the stickies to stick. They will just bounce off instead. You can make these brushes invisible as well which may help in what you are trying to do.

I'll give this a try when I get into drawing player boundaries for areas of my map. Thanks.:thumbup1: