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Posted by matt on Fri Nov 28th at 8:43pm 2003


This is a discussion topic for the article "Lasers for the masses" by matt which can be found here

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an introduction






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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Nov 28th at 10:41pm 2003

T'is a good introduction to lasers (or beams as they are called). But eventually, mappers will want to know more complex things. Making the laser hurt someone (simple, add in a trigger_hurt brush with a damage value). Have the laser not go down in a straight line but wiggle a little bit (give your env_beam entity a noise value). Want your beam to look like something other than a red line, change the color. Go to Vlatitude.com and check out their resources, they have all the different sprites for lasers there.

Still a very good tutorial. Good Job matt smiley



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Tue Dec 2nd at 10:29pm 2003

A good tutorial for newcomers to lasers, though a few more features could have been explored. To take an example, perhaps you could have gotten into how to accomplish different colored lasers. I'm not gonna let the fugly brushes representing a laser generator hurt the score.



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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Dec 20th at 8:30pm 2003

Tutorial is comprehensive and simple. Exactly what me and my fellow noob mappers need. thx alot !



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Posted by |=Tarosek=| on Wed Dec 24th at 12:09am 2003

Damn, yet another laser tutorial I've seen and I STILL don't know how to make those cool ring lasers like in the tram intro sequence to Half-Life.



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Posted by matt on Sun Jan 4th at 1:52pm 2004

Thanks, I thought about making it a bit more complex, but It is a n0ob tut.



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Posted by Renegatus on Mon Oct 18th at 9:40am 2004

This would be good for a mod, perhaps an "Entrapment"-esque infiltration game.



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Posted by Foxpup on Wed Dec 1st at 8:43am 2004

The laser rings are just a bunch of regular lasers arranged in a circle, and the start and end entities are func_plats that go up and down. IMPORTANT: The func_plats *must* have an origin brush, even though they don't normally require one.




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