I'm looking to create a boss-battle style map where bombs drop out of a pneumatic diversity vent and are launched on an aerial faith plate straight towards you. I would also like to use pneumatic diversity vents as a testing element in the levels leading up to the fight. how would I go about accomplishing this?

(as before, I am a n00b incapable of doing much at all, so things will need to be explained VERY. SLOWLY. and in much detail. )

Sounds like you played 12 angry tests...

CamBen wrote:
Sounds like you played 12 angry tests...

Katloverr wrote:
I am a n00b incapable of doing much at all, so things will need to be explained VERY. SLOWLY. and in much detail.

You should probably learn the basics of hammer before doing something sorta complex like that. I highly doubt someone is going to take the time to explain how to do this 'in much detail'. Even if they did, I have no idea how they'd do it 'slowly'...

I am practicing... I'm much better than I was before, when I couldn't even figure out how to work the block tool. most of the tutorials I've found have mostly been about crap that they assume you know, which I don't, but I've managed to figure out this much. I've found some good tutorials now, so I'm making big jumps. I was also sort of kidding about the in much detail part. I can look up stuff I don't understand

[Edit] yes, I played 12 Angry test xD but I'm trying to make something quite different.

In summary, you'd use a point_template to spawn the bombs, and a trigger catapult for the faith plate. Not sure how to get it to follow a player, maybe a func_tank? I'm not sure how CaretCaret did it.

srs bsnss wrote:
In summary, you'd use a point_template to spawn the bombs, and a trigger catapult for the faith plate. Not sure how to get it to follow a player, maybe a func_tank? I'm not sure how CaretCaret did it.

oh, so hitting the faith plate wouldn't make the bomb explode? I was looking on another post about how to make bombs, and there is actually a point_futbol_shooter entity that has an output that drops a bomb. I wasn't certain if the bomb would explode on contact with the faith plate so maybe I'd have to mess with the bomb's settings to do so. thank you

Well, it might. But if it hits the trigger_catapult (which usually sits above the faith plate) first, then it won't explode. Gel blobs do the same thing (which is an interesting puzzle concept to use).

srs bsnss wrote:
Well, it might. But if it hits the trigger_catapult (which usually sits above the faith plate) first, then it won't explode. Gel blobs do the same thing (which is an interesting puzzle concept to use).

oooooh... now I have a map idea xD

Katloverr wrote:
srs bsnss wrote:

Well, it might. But if it hits the trigger_catapult (which usually sits above the faith plate) first, then it won't explode. Gel blobs do the same thing (which is an interesting puzzle concept to use).

oooooh... now I have a map idea xD

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Precisely

It won't explode on the faith plate, as the trigger isn't solid. You can actually fling paint bombs this way as well, although VALVe tried to prevent it in their maps.

To make it shoot at the player, just use !player as the target of the catapult.

EDIT: Oops, didn't see srs's post. Sorry.

FelixGriffin wrote:
To make it shoot at the player, just use !player as the target of the catapult.

Thanks for that little piece of advice I'll try that

FelixGriffin wrote:
To make it shoot at the player, just use !player as the target of the catapult.

Ahhh, clever. That makes sense.