Triggering model animation

Hi everyone. I'll get to the point right away. Is it possible to make a door model act like lets say, func_door_rotating, a door model that opens and closes just like a brush entity, for Half-life 1? For example, you come near the model, mean door, you press your use key/E, and the door goes 90 degress. You press the use key again, and the door closes (or door closing no matter what). Ofcourse, the opening and closing would be animation done in ms3d or whatever. The question is, can you control/activate that animation? Similar as within the scientist in Half-life1. You press your use key or E, he positions towards you and begins talking. I need something, I need somehow to start model animation when I come near it. Animation > [door opens, stay open for a while, closes]. How to trigger animation, over and over again, that's basicaly my question. In HL2 doors are models. Can the same be done for HL1?

Nenad

I think so, yes. If I remember right, there are func_doors in Hammer 3.4 right? You could make a simple door model that didn't even have a swing animation, perhaps just a knob jiggle and parent that whole door model to an invisible and collisionless func_door. When players use the func_door it would behave as if the model itself was responding to the player. Set an output so that the func_door causes the door model itself to play its knob animation, and I'd think you'd be good to go!

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Riven said:
You could make a simple door model that didn't even have a swing animation, perhaps just a knob jiggle and parent that whole door model to an invisible and collisionless func_door.

Parenting in HL1, nice.

fishy said:

Riven said:
You could make a simple door model that didn't even have a swing animation, perhaps just a knob jiggle and parent that whole door model to an invisible and collisionless func_door.

Parenting in HL1, nice.

I don't think Riven has worked much in the GoldSource engine. Plus you can parent in Spirit Of Half-Life.

As for your question, I'm pretty sure it can be done in Half-Life. It's been so long since I last did anything in Half-Life so I can't remember how you actually trigger animations but I'm sure you can.

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Well, I just exposed myself didn't I Shows how much time I've spent in the goldsource engine
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lol, there's a reason that I didn't offer any alternative.

As far as I remember, the only way to change an animation of a model was by shooting/hitting it, and that only cycled it to the next animation. Also, models had to use the cycler entity, which spurtted green blood when you did hit it. And there was no physics model either, only the bounding box of the model to define it's space.

All in all, the whole business of adding models in goldsource was very primative, and definately not suited to details like door animations.

I really don't know if anyone is still watching this thread, but I'll throw my two cents in here anyway.

NOTE this is very complicated if you're making lots of doors like this, but I think it would work this way if tried. (pay no attention to the arrogant man behind the curtain )

STEP 1
you take 3 scripted_sequences, one for opening anim, one for closing anim and one for a knob jiggle if its locked(this will be left out unless requested later). You then stack all the scripted_sequences so that the door will sit properly for all anims.

STEP 2
you make a func_rot_button about the size of the door model set with the not solid spawnflag, targeting a multi_manager.

STEP 3
you make a multi_manager to be targeted by the func_rot_button, that then targets the first scripted_sequence to open the door, waits mabye 3 or 4 seconds and then activates the closing anim.

STEP 4
you make a func_door_rotating the same size as the door, covered in the NULL texture, and rig it up in the multi_manager to open and close when the model plays its anims.

I wish I had a door model to experiment with to see if this works, but alas all is speculation.

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