Hey modsonline

i already searched this forum and other sites but couldnt find anything about it....

is it possible to add destroyable brushes which respawn after some time? i wanna make something like glassattack but a little smaller and with glassplates that respawn after 20-30 seconds or somthing...

thanks in advance!

Depends how your destryoing them, if your using ''hide()'' then you could use a wait timer like ''wait(10)'' then show them again with ''show()''

well so far i only used brushmodel and a trigger for destroyable stuff
dunno if thats a bad idea but im kinda just starting with mapping^^

so this hide wait and show stuff sounds like scripting right? then i have to read through some scripting tutorials...tyvm for help

Yes, sorry forgot to say that it is indeed scripting.

Start with something very simple so you understand how it works, i'll give you a very rough guide to get you started, lots of this info can be found in much more detail if you search the forums a bit.

So first you need the wall so draw a brush in radiant, make it a script_brushmodel and give it a 'targetname' of 'wall'

Now make the broken wall, make it a script_brushmodel and give it a 'targetname' of 'wallbroken'

Finally a trigger, make it a trigger_multiple and give that a 'targetname' of 'trigger'

Thats all you need in radiant so save and compile the map.

For the script you first need to get the entities, so this will be your wall, broken wall and trigger, we do this like so

wall = getent( "wall", "targetname" ); // this is the complete wall
wallbroken = getent( "wallbroken", "targetname" ); // this is the broken wall
trigger = getent( "trigger", "targetname" ); // this is the trigger

Now you dont want the broken wall to be seen yet so you next line will be

wallbroken hide(); // hides the broken wall

So now you need to trigger the wall

trigger waittill( "trigger" ); // we wait for the trigger 

Now the trigger has been triggered you want to show the broken wall and hide the unbroken wall

wallbroken show();
wall hide();

Now its up to you but you could always use a wait function then change it back again (never tried using it before though)

wait (10); // wait 10 seconds
wallbroken hide(); // hide the broken wall
wall show();

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So load you map, walk into the trigger (or whatever trigger you used) and see if it works, this will be very basic and look a bit odd but should get you started, good luck and any problems ask away.

yay got it working :) first time i used a script...but it rly is just "hiding" it somehow...it acts like a caulk wall....is that my fault or is "hide" rly just hiding the texture...

When you turn a brush into a script_brushmodel it turns that brush into a entity. An entity doesn't have collision on it's own so you should be able to walk straight through it, im not sure why your player is colliding with it.

I have to pick my words careful here because it's hard to explain, the hide function removes the entity from view but it is still there and you can still use it again via scripts, if you used delete(); for example the entity would be removed from the game and you would be able to use it again.

Created a small map using the script provided by Mystic. Have uploaded to the United Offensive: Tutorial Downloads Section, and should be there once approved.

Provided everything necessary to look at it in radiant, examine the code further, and a compiled working version.

Code is commented where necessary with author being Mystic as was his code used.

Solved the solid invisible wall by moving the hidden wall up 512 units, then moving back down after wait.

wall_work()
{

// collect all the wall and trigger entities

wall = getent("wall","targetname");
broken = getent("wall_broken","targetname");
trig = getent("trigger","targetname");


// precache explosion fx
// remove level.explosion and origin if not using fx

level.explosion= loadfx ("fx/explosions/exploder_brick.efx");
origin = (1536,768,0);


// hide the broken wall for start of map
broken hide();

 while(1)
 {
  trig waittill("trigger");
  

  // play explosion fx to hide the switch
  // can be taken out if you think it is not necessary

  playfx(level.explosion,origin);  


  // switch walls
  
  wall hide();
  wall movez(512,1);
  broken show();

  wait(10);
  

  // switch walls back

  wall movez(-512,1); 
  wait(1);
  broken hide();
  wall show();

 }
}

I just approved your download which can be found here

Credit wasn't needed as the code i posted was very basic and just to help get hoodydoody started, although i am greatful, so thank you TexasRebel.

wow tyvm !!! you two rly helped me well...awesome forum :)

While this script works fine, it could use a little more work to over come a small problem. If a player happens to be in the area of the wall when it is replaced, the player gets stuck in it and when the player dies the wall disappears. Then the wall works in the following sequence of pictures.









Wish I knew something about scripting but perhaps having the script do a check to see if a player is there before replacing the wall would suffice.