[RELEASE] DaMaGepy 02
On second thought, let's not derail the thread, eh?
Lego Bricks are okay but true, lets not derail it.
It was made for request. The room's original design was good as a base to add this spawn-lot-box-and-build idea. The secret room was added for that too, will not be there when I continue making the DaMaGepy #2 (or at least not here).
But if so, then I'll nt post fun maps only maps that suit to the "portal" concept. So I should drop the outdoor thing too?? I want to make original maps with unique concept, not just another steril test room with some (maybe old) puzzle.
Trivia: The reasons for this are entirely commercial. If people call them "legos" enough, the word runs the risk of becoming a genericized trademark, at which point Lego will have lost a significant amount of leverage, since then anyone could call their interconnecting plastic bricks "legos" perfectly legally.
I'm not suggesting you shouldn't post maps that aren't true to the portal game. However, something like making a staircase out of cubes, it just seems tedious. The key is to keep it interesting, while not being repetitive.
I had problem setting up the 6 box so if one of them removed by the cleanser, the dropper drops another. But also wanted the button to spawn one cube and to remake the dropped ones too. the dropper's template was named box. if I name the pre-placed boxes as box and do the spawn command, both the dropper and the placed cubes spawned one new one (cloned into the floor wall etc). When I named the 6 box as "boxes", then none of the events worked. I added an event to the cleanser when its remove a box or anything, also to the box (tried all, onbreak etc) and global ones, but no effect, they didnt triggered anything. Only if a box "box" was kiled that was spawned by the dropper. But I wanted the boxes to start on top of each other!
So I made a func_train with the spawner entity, it places the cubes then moves to its original position. If anyone have a better solution, let me know (6 premade box, one dropper, if any of the premade or dropped box is destroyed in the cleanser, it drops a new one)I'm also quite irritated by the respawning of all preplaced cubes, and the same problem ruins having multiple box-droppers, as they respawn in all the tubes when one is destroyed. The only solution I can think of is giving different names to different cubes, but that is really not very practical in regards of using filters and other things that requires a name of the cube
call all your boxes box_n so thats 'box_1' 'box_2' 'box_3'...etc so you can respawn them individually and your filter is 'box_*' which will include anything that starts 'box_'
problem solved.
Box spawning is simple, you just have to 'Think with SDK' 
problem solved.
Box spawning is simple, you just have to 'Think with SDK'
And what if there is multiple different boxes available? Then there will be many filters...unpractical...
There will be only one filter, which filters 'box_*'
* is a wildcard, and will accept anything that has box_ as the first 4 characters of the name, followed by any sequence of characters after.
Setting a filter to filter name box_* will accept (or reject... however you have it set up) anything with the following names
box_
box_1
box_14
box_twp
box_slkdfjsdkljfklsd
you get the idea.
ooooh, cozy! Saves me a LOT of trouble! 