Newbie alert!

I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make the telescopic pole thingies that are underneath the moving platforms (the big extendable steel poles with platforms on the end)

i found the behind the scenes pistons, but they dont look quite right, and I think the pole things are different.

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Wait for NullSolider to pop in, he figured them out.

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Cool thanks

Leck wrote:
Newbie alert!

I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make the telescopic pole thingies that are underneath the moving platforms (the big extendable steel poles with platforms on the end)

i found the behind the scenes pistons, but they dont look quite right, and I think the pole things are different.

they are all brush based. cylinders that decrease in size by 2 units every 128 units or something. then put a nice square block on the top and tie the whole lot to a func_brush.(make in in the fully extended position)

make a brush that is the same height, length and width dont matter too much but keep it close to the size of the func_brush.

tie this new brush to a func_door, give it a name of "platform_1", set delay before reset to "-1", set the move direction to down. and set its flag to start open.

set the func_brush's parent to the same name, "platform_1" or whatever you used.

now make a trigger that closes the func_door (close raises, open lowers(it starts fully lowered))

hope that helps a bit

Thanks, I'll try that.

It's all abunch of parented crap. Looks like this might call for a tutorial on how doors are used in portal to create effects like that. After the contest of course.