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Posted by dragonlady on Tue Aug 1st at 1:33pm 2006

Hi All - I am new around here and female - please don't shoot me!

I have been searching and reading lots of useful posts, but cannot find the answer to what is possibly a very stupid question.

I have created my first map for HL2 and it more-or-less works OK, but I have no idea how to finish it. There may or may not be more, as I am only doing it as a demo, so I do not want to change levels, just end the game! What I am looking for is some kind of trigger or other object that just takes the player to a "well done you escaped" message and quits. Is this possible or am I missing the point? Hope you can help.

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Posted by Agent_21 on Tue Aug 1st at 1:40pm 2006

Well, I absolutely know there is a way to do it. I can not be of much assistance as I am a relitively new mapper as well, but I can reassure you that somone here knows how to do just that, and I have seen it done on other maps, so it is most certainly not a stupid question. Hope you enjoy Snarkpit, the community here is very nice, and you should find them quite helpful.



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Posted by Captain P on Tue Aug 1st at 4:51pm 2006

I never investigated what the end game entity is in HL2, but from looking at the source of Metastasis, it seems it can be done by triggering a point_clientcommand entity, using a parameter override of 'startupmenu force'.

But perhaps the game_end entity does just what you want. I'd say, give that one a try and otherwise, try the above method.

Oh, and you should download that Metastasis mod. It's not only a good example of singleplayer mapping, it also comes with the maps source - it's always good to learn by looking at examples, right? <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Aug 1st at 6:59pm 2006

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I have created my first map for HL2 and it more-or-less works OK, but I have no idea how to finish it. There may or may not be more, as I am only doing it as a demo, so I do not want to change levels, just end the game!


The game_end can achieve this, however it has an abrupt end, you'll just go straight to the main menu, and its not very dramatic, so I would pair it with a env_fade that makes the screen fade to black before you fire the game_end entity.

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What I am looking for is some kind of trigger or other object that just takes the player to a "well done you escaped" message and quits. Is this possible or am I missing the point? Hope you can help.


A game_text entity can achieve the message saying "well done you escaped" (in the message text field without the " signs).

So the order in which things should be fired from a brush entity trigger_once:
At 0 seconds env_fade
at 2 seconds game_text
at 4 seconds game_end

You can also go out with a bang if instead of going to the main menu of HL2 you can load up a back ground map instead. To do that you can use point_servercommand entity. Use this setup.
(output from whatever triggers it) "on trigger"
(my input)"command"
(parameter) "map background01"
(delay) <time>



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Posted by dragonlady on Wed Aug 2nd at 3:03pm 2006

Bless you guys!

I used a combination of your ideas - the env_fade and env_text suggested by Omegaslayer with the point_clientcommand entity from Captain P - and it works beautifully!

(According to the documentation game_end is only for multi-player games)

Thanks for the help - I obviously need to learn a lot more about entities.






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