[Tip] Doors with bullet ricochets!

[Nineaxis]

There's a lit of piece of polish I look for in maps, and I consider it quite important. And that is bullet ricochets on doors.

Here we have a generic door in Hammer:

Let's have a look in-game:

Notice something wrong? We're firing a minigun at a metal door, and it might as well not even exist! Good thing there's an easy way to fix this...

You'll notice that I've done two things: first, I textured the func_door with metal/ibeam001b. "But Nineaxis", you say, "now that door is going to show up in game! I textured it with nodraw so it wouldn't!".

And that's why you go into the properties of the func_door, and change Render Mode to Don't Render. This, as the name implies, means that the func_door will not render. But the surface type is still there, and the metal texture makes it metal.

Let's take another look at this door in-game.

That's better.

 

[The Political Gamer]

/me looks at ABS.

 

[Psy]

It also prevents stickies from sticking to the door.

 

[YM]

I also used this method instead of clip brushes for cetain things in hoodoo and furnace creek, it makes a wooden barricade prop (with no collision D give off wood chips when shot

 

[Ida]

Wow, so that's why Valve does it... Very useful, I'm gonna change this immediately.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

/me looks at ABS.

Why?

 

[The Political Gamer]

Why?

If I remember correctly your pre-fab doors don't have this.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

You are noob and remember incorrectly. I in fact did this. The difference was I used a metal grating texture to facilitate the viewing of the door skin or any other object that exist beyond the plane of the brush face.

 

[re1wind]

Or if tf2 had a metal nodraw texture ala L4d...

 

[Terr]

Wait, so sticky-bomb-attachment is part of materials properties instead of entity class/properties? <scribbles notes furiously>

 

[A Boojum Snark]

no. sticky bombs will not stick to brush entities. period. They will however stick to props, this is why the func_door covers the door prop, or else you'd get floating stickies when the door opens.

 

[Penguin]

I don't understand why we have a thread for a flag but w/e.

 

[Nineaxis]

I don't understand why we have a thread for a flag but w/e.

..it's a tip. I notice that most mappers don't do this.