conveyor belt

[WAR_Nuker]

there were quite a few conveyor belts in HL1, but i dont recall any in HL2. how would one create a conveyor belt, with the sliding texture and everything?

 

[Raeven0]

Func_conveyor.

Only a texture that uses the TextureScroll proxy will actually scroll, though.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

k awesome....i think i read a thread about a sliding texture earlier.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

alright i got this workin smoothly but one thing. when you shoot it you can see the bulletholes. i added "$nodecal" 1 to the vmt but no go. restarted hammer and stuff to make sure my settings were saved but that still didnt change anything. is there something else i should add to my vmt? while im at it....is there some kind of page that tells what those $ things mean in the vmt....cause i still havent heard of them all. if i had that id probably post less about vmts....

 

[Raeven0]

I don't know of a variable that specifically stops bullet holes from appearing, though lots of entities do that by default.

Mr. Lane promised me a list of shaders, proxies, and variables, but to date none seems to exist. If I were a more competent coder I would go through and find them all myself...

 

[WAR_Nuker]

woo! woke up this morning and now it works. i thought it would work out that way. i figured no one made that list anyways since i looked forever on google and found nothing useful. one more thing. as you see i have problems getting my edited vmt settings to take effect when i want them to. apparently this requires more than restarting hammer. is there a solution to this or is this just the way it is?

 

[Raeven0]

Er, restarting Hammer and HL2 should be all that's necessary...

 

[WAR_Nuker]

ah ok i didnt restart half life 2 dm....lookin good.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

one problem. when physics objects are resting on the conveyor they just lay there. they arent moved with the conveyor. is there something i can add so that the conveyor will move physics objects as well and not just live players?

 

[Raeven0]

Trigger_push.

 

[Teh_Poet]

What's a good sliding texture? Or a small list, please =)

 

[FictiousWill]

You can make any texture you want slide by editing the vmt. I did this ages ago when I made de_convoy.

http://www.google.com/search?q=de_c...fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&filter=0

 

[Limpet]

I don't beleive hl2 comes with or uses any. You'd have to make it.

edit:And what he said...posted when I posted :/

 

[WAR_Nuker]

i just used a metal texture and used slidetexture in the vmt. change the angle and speed to your desire.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

the thing about trigger push is...depending on the mass of the phys object...it will be pushed at a different rate. lighter objects will be moved faster and heavier objects slower. i need the objects to move at the same rate.

 

[Raeven0]

Hmm. Env_physimpact can apply equal force regardless of the object's mass, but it's more of a one-time thrust than a steady pull. Maybe, instead of letting the func_conveyor itself do the pulling, you could put a bunch of invisible, synchronized func_tracktrain brushes over the conveyor belt. But then it'd be jumpy in multiplayer...

 

[WAR_Nuker]

yeah and i dont want a jumpy affect....at least for the player....what if i made the tanktrain to work for just the props?

 

[Raeven0]

I would've suggested that, but it would be impossible. You can't have selective solidity.

But... Func_clip_vphysics, like every other entity, should support a parentname even though it's not in the FGD. Maybe you could have the tracktrains outside the map, with func_clip_vphysics brushes sitting a unit higher than the conveyor belt, parented to the tracktrains. Hmm.