Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · August 25, 2009, 9:20 pm

So I'm kinda new to Hammer, but have been following the tutorials on the VDC Wiki. I created a button and door combo, which works perfectly except I can shoot portals through the door even when it's closed. Any idea what could be causing this? I compared my setup to a door in one of the in-game levels and all the properties for both the prop_dynamic and func_door line up exactly.

#2 · August 26, 2009, 2:40 am

Check the solidity of the door brush and/or the models. It sounds like you don't have a flag ticked or a property set.

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#3 · August 26, 2009, 5:47 am

Paint your func_door brushes with the nodraw texture and align them to block the space of the door.
I made that mistake in my map too, however, found out 6 months after releasing

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#4 · August 26, 2009, 8:46 am

@msleeper - Like I said, I compared the properties and flags of my doors to those in one of Valve's levels and everything matched up. Any idea what I should be looking for specifically?

@Mek - Both func_doors are no_draw and centered in the doorway.

#5 · August 26, 2009, 10:39 am

Yes, centered. But they must completely fill the "door hole" in the wall because they are solid - you can't shoot portals through them.

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#6 · August 26, 2009, 11:29 am

The func_doors now completely fill the door hole and portals still pass through. >.<

#7 · August 26, 2009, 1:32 pm

Copy everything except the door rig, paste in into a new map, and overwrite the original map with the new copy. Remake the door setup and see if it works; if it does, something just went wrong with the older VMF. If it doesn't, it's something else.

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#8 · August 27, 2009, 1:01 pm

I did exactly what you said. The only thing that changed was that now I can only shoot portals through the middle of the door, whereas before I could only shoot through the sides.

#9 · August 27, 2009, 1:50 pm

Hooray! It works now! Why? I have no idea. I just copied a door setup from a Valve level into mine, changed the names, and now it works. Thank you all for your suggestions though.

#10 · August 27, 2009, 2:05 pm

jwien001 wrote:

Hooray! It works now! Why? I have no idea. I just copied a door setup from a Valve level into mine, changed the names, and now it works. Thank you all for your suggestions though.

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