Quote from josepezdj on March 12, 2015, 5:54 am

Hey,

Like you read, it's not possible to parent the path_tracks. I remember I even tried one time disabling the SmartEdit and adding the keyvalue "parentname" to no avail.

I'm not sure exactly about what you are attempting to achieve, but if I think in 2 dimensions I can always make it by making the 2nd train to follow up a diagonal line (but at a higher speed than the first train) like so:

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What you could alternatively do is this:

- Make your second moving thingie (brush, entity, whatever...)
- Parent it to a func_door entity. Make the func_door brush the size you wish according to the movement you want your moving thing to describe.
- Parent the func_door to your first tracktrain, and make the door to open whenever you want.

Example:

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I hope that helped.

Quote from KyloX on March 12, 2015, 6:25 am

Thanks for the reply, but it isn't fully what I am looking for.

This is the full plan I want:
I am trying to make a horror map with similar expects of the games monster SCP-173. While the player doesn't look at the object, it gets closer to player.
As npcs don't work in Portal 2 as well they don't move so fast. I tried making a tracktrain mechanism and it almost working... just the part where actually going to a player doesn't.
I though point_teleport might solve my problem by teleporting path_track to a player in some periods of time, but... point_teleport doesn't parent as well...

Quote from josepezdj on March 12, 2015, 10:40 am

Hmmmm... if I got your meaning right, the only real way to achieve what you want is Vscripting, since you need to update every once in a while your moving object position in accordance to the player's position.

I might feel capable of giving you a hand on it despite of my limited scripting knowledge... if you allow me a reasonable time (I'm top busy lately). Basicly the idea would be:

- You get the player's position, a vector.
- You get your moving object's initial position, another vector.
- You set as the new position for your moving object some point between its original position and the players' position X units away from any of them and every X seconds, only when the player is not looking at the moving object. This can be made by means of a trigger_look parented to the moving object and a basic script.

Quote from CamBen on March 12, 2015, 10:42 am

I achieved a sorta working scp 173 in portal 2 using phys_thrusters and large triggers to detect the player so it knows where to push but I have a feeling Jose's method would be better.

Quote from KyloX on March 12, 2015, 12:08 pm

But if using Vscripting the way you explain it, he probably would just go for the player in a straight line always. If it were one big empty room this would be perfect, but in a maze structure, would it work?
Unless... triggers to teleport the "object" closer or on corners of the hallway.

Quote from josepezdj on March 12, 2015, 12:22 pm

Well, you're right, my idea was the simplest case. I'm sure what you said can also be achieved by vscripting, but I can't manage it, it's out of my current vscripting knowledge, sorry