hologram

I want to model something myself, and then make it look like a Hologram,
but i have no idea on where to start =/
My goal is to make it like 50% trasparent, and rotating! And it should not
be posible to touch it in any way, but to walk right through it =D

Example: http://home.no/artimes/artimes/hologram.jpghttp://home.no/artimes/artimes/hologram.jpg

If anyone knows, pls let me know =D Thanks =)

jeds half-life model viewer lets you open a model, make the textures transparent, and save the model with a new name.

i googled for it and found it at http://www.slackiller.com/hlprograms.htm , which has some other useful stuff.

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i eat paint

I made a hologram once. Just change the renderfx to hologram, it will be transperent and will distort when you get further away from it. To make it rotating place in on a small invisible func_rotating, this way it will spin. Remember to tie the func_rotating with a brush textured with the origin texture. The middle of that brush is the place the entity will rotate around.

To make the hologram look even better place around it a volumetric light- just like I did in this map.

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Elon Yariv

Ok, thanks =D I think u are on to something here =P But i cant get it to work=P
Hmmm.. I've made the hologram, that was easy... but the rotating part was not =P
Cause when i made that brush WITH origin texture on, only that brush was rotating =P And not around itself either =P It had a big radius :S

mammba said:
Ok, thanks =D I think u are on to something here =P But i cant get it to work=P
Hmmm.. I've made the hologram, that was easy... but the rotating part was not =P
Cause when i made that brush WITH origin texture on, only that brush was rotating =P And not around itself either =P It had a big radius :S

You should make a platform for your hologram to stand on and group it with another brush (with the origin texture) at the centre of rotation and tie both to a func_rotating. Good luck.

Tie them both(the invisble train brush and origin brush),together not each one by it self, to the func_rotating entity. Without a origin the entity will rotate around the map's axis and thats what that happened to you.

Make sure the entity rotates around the right axis.(z,y,x) In the flags you'll find
a 'x axis' and 'y axis' flags, I'm not sure what makes the entity rotate around the Z axis... maybe ticking them both and maybe ticking non of them... maybe both of these options work.

If thats not the problem then it maybe that you mistook the origin texture fo another. The origin texture looks like a green face, not gray or colorful. If a brush is textured with origin over all it's sides it must be tied with another brush that is not an origin brush to an entity. A origin brush must have the origin texture over all it's sides or else you'll get nasty errors. In game the origin textue is invisible.

Edit:

Grouping has nothing to do with this. The groups and visgroups are only in hammer's RMF files they are to help the mapper to orginize the map, they have no affect on the game.

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Elon Yariv

Ok =D Nice, thanks =D It works now =D =) Thanks for all your help =)