Help with the tripmine entity

Does anyone know how to make the tripmine enitity work?

I just put it in the map like any other entity but it doesn't do anything. I may just be missing something really simple but any help would be great.

Thanks

Do you mean the monster_tripmine entity?

Simply put this guy up against a wall and make him face the direction that you want the laser pointing towards.

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Yes I do mean the monster_tripmine. I do put it on a wall but no laser comes out and it doesn't explode or anything. Is there something that you are supposed to do to make it work?

Thanks for your help.

You could have it facing the wrong way. If your tripmine is facing towards the wall, than no laser will appear.

Assuming you have Hammer 3.5 (you should), you can use the "Yaw" compass to select which way an entity is facing, and in this case, which way the laser is pointing towards. The direction that the compass arrow is eqivilent to the direction the compass will face when looking in the top (x/y) 2D view, so use the top view as an aid when deciding which way to point your monster_tripmine. So noth on the top view is 90 degrees, south is 270 degrees, west is 180 degrees and east on the 2d view is 0 degrees.

I have a monster_tripmine entity in my map and the "Instant On" flag is not checked, but if your sure that the monster_tripmine is facing in the right direction, than try and check this flag and see if that fixes the problem.

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Ok. I will try that. But I have editor v3.4 and NOT 3.5

Is 3.5 much different than 3.4? Does it require the editor to need to be reconfigured?

Thanks for your help.

Hammer 3.5 is the same as Hammer 3.4 except you can see models/sprites in Hammer 3.5 (which is pretty much essential), and it has the compass thing I am talking about.

Just go here download the new hammer.exe and replace it with the existing one, you shouldn't have to reconfigure your settings because for memory, there stored in a different file.

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Do you have any idea when the full version of 3.5 will come out? Not beta.

Never, valve finished half-life, 10 years ago and are now focusing on their powerful and well established source engine. But not to worry, I use Hammer 3.5 for half-life mapping as does 90% of everybody else and there are really no bugs in it, you will quickly get attached to the new features 3.5 offers you and not want to go back.

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