FelixGriffin wrote:
It would be a bit odd: a non-painted cube will not slide on a painted floor, but a painted cube will slide on a non-painted floor.

I was planning to make it frictionless and also restrict the player's ability to jump. Does that sound good?

Also, what color should this be?

It would be odd, but that's how most of the gels work? Maybe paint the cube with a gel and see what changes in the coding? (I dunno how the gels work on the cubes so o.o )

And restricting a jump is a good idea, I mean, thin ice is bad, you wouldn't want to jump on it lol
You could make some cool (no pun intended) bottomless pits underneath the ice xD

FelixGriffin wrote:
That looks cool. New idea: this isn't a gel. But when water splashes near it, the water freezes!

boom... this

FelixGriffin wrote:
That looks cool. New idea: this isn't a gel. But when water splashes near it, the water freezes!

Hmmm
Hyper cold air currents from a vent maybe? That could work as a testing element o.o
And if the vents are near a surface (Close to the ground/walls) that surface freezes instead.
And if you put a cube under it and get it wet, it freezes and looses all traction :3

If that works, we could add another element.
Heating coils!
That make it impossible to walk on the ground while activated! And when you pour water on them they cool off for a short while, or if there's a cooling vent nearby freeze the surface.

Damn, we need to get hired by valve XD

This is very late, but I finally have a video of this stuff. My Hammer Notepads contain newer and better versions, but I want a video of the original to be on here.

youtube.com/watch?v=tWlEyD3cNFg

FelixGriffin wrote:
I got it to sort of work, but not very well and with lots of lag. I have a better idea for it now.

This is very late, but I finally have a video of this stuff. My Hammer Notepads contain newer and better versions, but I want a video of the original to be on here.

youtube.com/watch?v=tWlEyD3cNFg

can I ask how you recorded a video of portal footage?
I know there's screen recording programs but o.o ;

And I've seen you anti-gravity Gel, it's pretty awesome, and If you don't get the adhedsiongel done, it would be a lot better than nothing. althrought I really would like to see your progress of your past try to make the real adhedsion gel (just to overveiw the problems by myself), can you may add a video of these here, pleas?

If you want to use one of these gels in a map, there are only two entities you need. One is a func_instance of the particular gel, somewhere outside the map (it's in a nice nodraw-box already). The other is an env_entity_maker with the Template Name set to @adhesion_gel or @stasis_gel or @cleansing_gel or whatever.

Sending a ForceSpawn input to the env_entity_maker should create a gel blob from it. Everything after that will be handled by the machinery inside the func_instance.

If you want to use these in a "gel gun," I have some old code for that that even allows switching between it and a Portal Gun. I used it in the Stasis Gel video. But be aware that these gels, except for the water, are NOT COMPATIBLE with info_paint_sprayer gels. You'll end up with two effects at once on the surface.

AntiVector: Those are cool ideas, and should all be fairly easy to implement. A gel that leaves no splatter is VERY easy in this framework, since I only need one custom particle for it.

With the invisible chamber: would it be solid while it was invisible, or not? Having it be solid would be far easier than having it not, but wouldn't give as many puzzle opportunities.

EDIT: Just added the "lightening" effect to the Antigravity Gel, and the "eating away walls" effect to the Electric Gel. If a prop_physics has the model "props/heavy_box.mdl" it'll have its skin changed and its mass reduced, and if any entity has the targetname "@electric_sensor" its OnUser1 will be called when electric gel lands nearby.

Flo: I'll try. Would a recolored version of the ice effect work?

Metroid101: No progress yet, today's Notepad isn't gel-related.