Help with prop_door_rotating

Aquanistic

5 Posts

Posted Oct 09, 2011

I'm working on my first map and having trouble with making a simple pushbar door (the kind with the green sticker on it). I have placed it in my map and used this tutorial (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prop_door_rotating) to try to make it work, but it won't.

In game I can walk right through it and when I press E it rotates on a middle axis with no animation or sound. I tried decompiling a map (sp_a3_portal_intro) and copying a door from there and although it was solid in my map, pressing E did nothing.

Here is a sceenshot of the settings I have on the door now: http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1532/portaldoor.png

Does the Hinge Axis have anything to do with it?

I figured that making a door would be easy, but it's giving me trouble and I can't find any good information on how to make a functioning one online. Can anyone help me?

MasterLagger

1,695 Posts

#55378

Posted Oct 09, 2011

Replied 11 minutes later

Prop_door_rotating only works for certain doors. I had this problem also. I suggest making a func_rotating_door with a nodraw brush and have your door prop Parented to it.

gompasta

109 Posts

#55381

Posted Oct 09, 2011

Replied 8 minutes later

Just make it a prop_dynamic, and have a func_button on it, then set the open animation. It comes with sound and everything.

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#55389

Posted Oct 09, 2011

Replied 1 hour later

There's also the thing with the axis: usually the center of the object is the rotation axis.
If you select your brush, you will see that there is a circle in the middle of your brush, that's your axis. If you drag that to the side, the axis will shift thus making the door open like a normal door

Hope that helped!

ChickenMobile

2,460 Posts

#55469

Posted Oct 09, 2011

Replied 9 hours later

gompasta wrote:
Just make it a prop_dynamic, and have a func_button on it, then set the open animation. It comes with sound and everything.

I believe this is the answer. There is no prop that I know of that can be a 'prop_door_rotating' in Portal 2. Look for the correct model and using a func_button or an 'OnUse' output, set the animation to 'open'.

Consequently I will make an instance of this so you can download easier. Will work on it soon.

Aquanistic

5 Posts

#55503

Posted Oct 10, 2011

Replied 11 hours later

Thanks for all of the help! I changed it to a prop_dynamic, but when I selected the door brush and hit Ctrl+T to create the brush entity func_button, it told me that "There are no eligible selected objects." What did I do wrong?

Spam Nugget

492 Posts

#55563

Posted Oct 10, 2011

Replied 7 hours later

Okay, prop_dynamic isnt a brush entity, its a point entity. This means that you dont make it from a brush by hitting control T, put it into the map with the entity tool, or shift e. Then click on the 'world model' field and browse for the model of the door.

ChickenMobile

2,460 Posts

#55634

Posted Oct 11, 2011

Replied 11 hours later

Here is the instance I said I would be making. Remember to put a -1 if the door doesn't close again and leave it at ??? if you can push 'Use' key to open and close the door.

You can also open or close the door by using the proxy through an input.

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