Ball catchers created with env_entity_maker?
Hi,
I'm new to modern level editing, although did play with DEU quite extensively, if anyone remembers that.
I have decompiled a few official portal levels, and have noticed that ball catchers seem to be built in a sealed room, and an instance created in the desired spot using env_entity_maker. I was just curious, why would this method be used rather than building the ball catcher in place?
Thanks,
John
Modularity.
I thought it might be that, but why just the ball catchers? I haven't been through every level, but I haven't seen anything else done this way.
Also, none of the ball catcher tutorials or prefabs I have come across seem to use this method. Why not?
Valve moves in mysterious ways.
Really, there is more than one way to create many of the effects you see in Portal (or Half-Life or TF2, or probably any game). There is no "right" way to make most setups, with the exception of maybe doors and buttons, and cameras. There are plenty of wrong ways to do them though!
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Valves turn left or right, for a number of reasons, most commonly to control water flow or some other flow, such as gas or oil.
In the odd occasion Valves levitates and spits out acidic slime while singing "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Valves are also rarely know to be carnivores.
That was a fail attempt at good Humor. But really it's just how they map, and by they, I mean Jeff Lane, and sometimes Robin Walker.
You try and do better.
Yeah, that would be my problem (see cake/radio toipic)
Also, lol at 4 mod posts in a row.
Speaking of ball catchers, can anyone offer extremely tricky locations for a puzzle out of them, similar to the one (forgot what level) with the launcher past one emancipator grid and the catcher past another?
It's never really a challenge, so I never try cause I know I'd never do that good, since the Internet is serious Business.
i thought the valves joke was pretty funny :-/ i had to read it twice. that makes it pretty good. (of coarse i AM tired, but none the less)
also Aru493: don't shit up this thread by diverting its topic. feel free to make a new thread/discussion about what kind of ball catcher puzzles people would like to see.
and foresthippy. welcome aboard.