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Hammer noob here. I made a map with PTI and exported it to Hammer. Edited things a little bit. Now I use beemod, which likes to place a camera above the doors. To get rid of it, I need to edit an instance. I was wondering if that was "safe" to do (I would still like cameras in later bee maps and don't want to overwrite anything forever).
While I'm at it, is there any way to "collapse" instances into the map so I don't need to manually include them with pakrat or similar?
That's actually what VBSP does every time you compile, you never need to pack instances. (There's an option in hammer under the instances menu to collapse one, but it doesn't do names right so most of the PTI instances would work. It should be fine to do it to the doorframe instances if you want to get rid of the cameras.
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Nevermind, i used EnableGagging for allowing the turret to speak 
Question
I'm trying to make my lasers look like this one, but I can't figure out how to do it properly. I know it's some sprite or glow or something, but I don't know what to do with it.
It looks more like a bad cubemap and slightly different model. Maybe try adding a coloured light + sprite too. The glass looks like the reflectivity of the cubemap has been increased, so you probably want to try that with a reskinned model.
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How do I "destroy" the cubemap? Or whatever I need to do? Does it have to do with the glass vmt?
Actually looking at the model more closely it just looks more pale. You may be able to simulate that with RenderColor, but otherwise reskinning the model might be best.
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Hey people, I'd like to ask if someone knows a good fog_controller setting for this case:
I have a map that starts in a room right under the surface, with a huge hole in the ceiling (the ceiling model). The player_start is inside the room, you can't actually go outside, only see it (facility building and some trees) it happens all under the surface and it only goes down. I have a figure on witch settings to use when the player gets deeper, maybe global_ents fog, but for this first area I have no idea since I have this outside area, with a custom blue sky with clouds, mixed with the facility areas right under it. So I'd like to hear from you, if you have any ideas for the fog here. I tried using no fog at all but the feeling that something is missing is very strong.
EDIT: I also would like to ask how to make the door_handle_1 model performs that particular movement when a door is locked.
Thanks in advance 