Small Stone Shooter

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Hi,

I'm looking for an entity
that can be triggered to produce a shower of small stones - much like
you get if shoot a concrete/stone wall. This is for a CS:S map.

E.g.

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Thanks

DeMoNeye

those are sprites in the pics you posted but you could try a env_shooter.

Ok - which sprite though?

My knowledge is limited. I don't know what sprites those are or how to change them. I imangin that if you want to change the effect you get when you shoot a wall or whatever you would have to learn some coding.
The env_shooter fires models props out like a gun . If you want a shower of small rocks i sagest you try that.

Yea, Redwood is right, that's why I'm not making this a possible answer:

The env_shooter is the correct entity to use, and in it's model keyvalue you have a couple of choices for the type of "rock" model you want to use:
effects/fleck_cement1.vmt or effects/fleck_cement2.vmt (You must place the ".vmt" extension in order for it to work).

They probably will not light-up like you may want them to, but they'll do the job. Here's a pic of me using them in my mfb_round01 entry map:



It took me several tries to get that shot, cause their falling to the ground rather rappidly. Using an env_shooter though, there are all kind of keyvalues you can specify to give these sprites sound and mass. You'll just have to play around with the settings to get what you want though.

Hope this helped...

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Cheers guys - that's great...

Mark me correct. It would be my first one. :smile:

first one's always best

:kitty:

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Well...

They aren't actually sprites in the picture - walk up to a concrete wall in HL2/CSS and shoot it - you will see a small dust puff, and a number of generated models that fall to ground and fade. That's the effect I'm really after.

The two VMT's are just too bright...

Found a few models, but they were too large - I only want to produce a effect like a small shower of gravel.

Looks like I'm gonna have to fire up XSI and build some small models for a shooter.

ok this might kill them lol make a 1x1 circular brush and make like 4 then each one press ctrl-T and go to the drop down and press func_physbox the name them all the same thing, Now comes the tricky part make a barrel cannon put a trigger_push brush in there and put the func_physbox brushs all the way to the bottum of the cannon or the back whatever... then make a point_template entity name it something and put your func_physbox brushs in the first template. now have that trigger always on (u dont have to but im not going into detail how to turn it on) then make a button and put in the outputs tab OnPressed-(templatename)-ForceSpawn, OnPressed-(physboxbrushname)-break-(then on the timer)10.00 or less if you want

Well - following a great tutorial over at http://forum.interlopers.net/viewtopic.php?t=2509 I've rescaled a rock model down to gravel size, and env_shooters are doing a great job.

Just got to work on all the entities to get 10 of these shooters firing randomly and with random amounts of gravel.

i can see a couple of problems arising from using that method, mainly that the physics model will be borked. the lod models would also need to be decompiled and scaled, or else they would appear at their original size when viewed from a distance. and there's also the problem of smoothing groups being lost(decompiler may have been updated though). all the models vertices are un-welded in the decompile, too. (where more than one tri shares a vertex in the original model, the decompile will create seperate vertices.

for something small like gravel, using the bounding box for collisions is good enough, so you dont really need a physics model. but opening the decompiled model in a model editor to re-weld the vertices, and assign a smoothing group to all the tri's, would still be good practice.

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