Deek said he would help me with this when we got together, but the gods are against us all the time and we keep missing each other... so I figured, just incase I should ask in here.

I have a tunnel and want it to come into a restaurant I made, but instead of a simple hatch door or something, I want it to slide/rotate a small island sink area. This consists of 9 brushes and 2 models (sink and faucet)



I know how to get the brushes to rotate, but not how to rotate the 2 models at the same time.

If you are available today just PM me, and we can post the results here for others to learn from later.

select all brushes > script_brushmodel
select every single model > script_model
select your object > K/V : targetname/yourobjectname
and now call your object with:
object = getEntArray( "yourobjectname" , "targetname" );
and move every piece!

@Deek... if your around Monday or Tues just send a
pm with email selected.

@serthy... I know about selecting brushes as I have functional doors, but the models it still wont do it. Says "Entity NOT created, can't make a point entity out of brushes" when I select both models and do script_model.

You have to select each individual model, then give it a targetname and either get each entity with getEnt or you could give the two models the same targetname and getting them via getEntArray.

Im completely lost... so I have all the brushes as script_brushmodel with a targetname of sink and then each model is a script_model also with targetname of sink.

Now what is it I need to do, to make them all rotate 180 when hitting trigger and then back after hitting trigger again?

Sorry I couldn't make it the other day to help you out. It's 3am and I just got off work otherwise I would write something up, but I don't think you should rotate them, because each model will rotate on its own axis and not the same axis as your brushmodel group, which wouldn't make them rotate together. I would move them in a direction. Using the function "moveX" or "moveY". This would make the group slide on the floor instead of rotate.

I'll see if I can write something up in the morning. I'm not the greatest at scripting but since you aren't getting much help, something is better than nothing.

Give the script_brushmodels a different name than the script_models. The reason being that you cannot change the origin of your script_model but you can do that what a script_brushmodel.

If you absolutely must rotate them, then you could use some high school trigonometry to figure out the x and y values and use moveTo/rotateTo. Otherwise, moving them would be the best option.

Rezil writes...



That isn't true. You can redefine an origin for a script_model as many times as you like, without any problems.

The way he has been advised to do it - give everything the same targetname - is the right way to do this. You then just move the whole lot at once.

You can redefine an origin, but consequently you'd be moving that script_model to that origin. He wants to rotate the sink using the same pivot as his script_brushmodel.

My interpretation is that he wants to rotate along one of the vertical edges of his brushmodel. If you call a rotate function on both, the brushmodel would rotate using wherever the origin brush is as the pivot while the script_model would rotate along it's own origin point(which, without recompiling the model to my knowledge is impossible to change).

edited on Mar. 22, 2012 02:46 am by Rezil