Gravity manipulation

CamBen

973 Posts

#91479

Posted Feb 22, 2013

Replied 8 hours later

Try putting a vphysics clip parented around the trigger teleport, it may stop objects from going insane.

Fracture

797 Posts

#91488

Posted Feb 22, 2013

Replied 7 hours later

I am noticing that the command line +use has some problems with it. Like for instance it disabled my ability to use the action button entirely and makes the console button the new action button. This simply will not do. Is there a way around and still be able to control the tank?

CamBen

973 Posts

#91489

Posted Feb 22, 2013

Replied 51 minutes later

No, there is no other way, to my knowledge. But the thing is, the +use key is completely useless with a gravity gun. You can pick stuff up with right click, and create a button that's reacts to a user4 output. As shown in the video I posted in the map showcasing thread, I used the new concept of electrical receiver panels to replace buttons.

As for the console, aiming upwards and pressing console will not fire a use output on the tank. So, if you need to use the console, aim up.

Fracture

797 Posts

#91497

Posted Feb 22, 2013

Replied 5 hours later

if i can do that to a button, is there a way to control the tank the same way?

CamBen

973 Posts

#91500

Posted Feb 23, 2013

Replied 2 hours later

The only way to assume control of a tank is by +use, the button only works because you can do

Onuser4 !self press

Fracture

797 Posts

#91501

Posted Feb 23, 2013

Replied 5 minutes later

EDIT: I have made a workaround of this whole thing that allows full use of the gun and still use the +use button. All I did was set up a scene where the player must press the button in order to activate something not knowing there is a func_tank in front of their face. I chose a decal texture that has invisible areas on it so it cannot be seen. The tank shifts thanks to a func_door, and picking up a portalgun activates the game_ui and portalgun model, along with a trigger_weaponstrip to rid the first gun

CamBen

973 Posts

#91513

Posted Feb 23, 2013

Replied 9 hours later

So are you making a portalgun gravity gun combo or something?

Fracture

797 Posts

#91517

Posted Feb 23, 2013

Replied 3 hours later

Well i don't want to reveal too much, but......

BLAPERTURE

Fracture

797 Posts

#91562

Posted Feb 24, 2013

Replied 1 day later

after looking up data, i found there is a -use command which removes the command

THIS IS THE FINAL VERSION

CamBen

973 Posts

#91569

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 6 hours later

Yea, that's the command I put in the download description of my gravity gun, for when the map is over and I want use to resume. If you press e though, the tank that the gun is on may deactivate.

Well, I don't want to reveal too much, but...

Electrotech science center

Sounds like gravity guns are popular

Fracture

797 Posts

#91571

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

yeah i had the same problem with the tank. so i moved the path node waaaaay back behind the player and positioned the tank's rotational axis accordingly

CamBen

973 Posts

#91589

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 6 hours later

Ok, sounds like you've got it figured out then!

looking forward the map!

Fracture

797 Posts

#91756

Posted Feb 26, 2013

Replied 1 day later

is there no way to make a func_tank change speeds on an input

CamBen

973 Posts

#91790

Posted Feb 27, 2013

Replied 11 hours later

I don't think so, what are you attempting to do with it?

You could try quickly swapping out the gun parent and tank to a faster or slower one, then setting it back.

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#91796

Posted Feb 27, 2013

Replied 2 hours later

I'm not sure if I should be suggesting this, but AddOutput can do that.

runs for cover

Fracture

797 Posts

#91803

Posted Feb 27, 2013

Replied 44 minutes later

this is actually for a differant tank used for an enemy, entirely separate from the gravity gun,

I can't seem to find a list of outputs that can be used for Addoutput on a func_tank specifically, aside from the normal ones.

Suggestions?

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#91811

Posted Feb 27, 2013

Replied 3 hours later

AddOutput can be used to connect outputs, true, but it has a second power. If you invoke it as AddOutput "keyvalue value" it will actually change the specified value on the entity. This isn't documented, but it's really useful in scripting.