Slippery ice

Ok, Here's one for all of you. Anybody know how to make a slippery surface that is flat.
I'm making an area that has ice and it needs to be flat. I want a slippery feel to it. I thought of using a push entity but I figure there's got to be an easier way, maybe a change in the texture .vmt or such to $surface.
Anybody know the best one to use?

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A change to the .vmt would be the best way IMO. There are quite a few different surface properties already in Source you may use for a custom texture. Some even have the word "slippery" in their title. Check em out: VDC material surface properties.

Other than using the $surfaceprop command, I don't think there's a $friction command or somesort to use. I haven't bothered to try any, but there's one labeled: slipperymetal that might prove effective. Also, maybe check out some of those ice textures in CSS people have made; those are slippery too.

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Riven said:
A change to the .vmt would be the best way IMO. There are quite a few different surface properties already in Source you may use for a custom texture. Some even have the word "slippery" in their title. Check em out: VDC material surface properties.

Other than using the $surfaceprop command, I don't think there's a $friction command or somesort to use. I haven't bothered to try any, but there's one labeled: slipperymetal that might prove effective. Also, maybe check out some of those ice textures in CSS people have made; those are slippery too.

Thanks, this is useful to me as well, I never knew how to do it.

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thnx, guys I'll look into those.
I nned it for a hockey rink I'm adding to a map.

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.

you should decompile one of those ice skating maps and see how they do it.

Does anyone remember the Citadel part in HL2 towards the end when you're trapped in the small room while your gravity gun gets modified. That had a sort of low friction effect you should look into it sgtfly.

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"aaron_da_killa" said:
Does anyone remember the Citadel part in HL2 towards the end when you're trapped in the small room while your gravity gun gets modified. That had a sort of low friction effect you should look into it sgtfly.

That scene was done using a trigger volume called: trigger_vphysics_motion

That may work if you make it a very thin layer on top of every surface you want affected. However, be sure to use a filter_activator_name to limit to just the player and not any other entities. The reason you'd make it a small layer too, is because it would affect the player when they'd jump if the volume was any larger.

That could make it very tedious to construct over simply adding a $surfaceprop value to the texture of your choice and simply applying that to the chosen affected faces.

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That last Riven might be the way to go, this is an ice hockey rink that will have nothing on it but the players and infected. I have a rink surface which I can
make very thin.
This is great I have wracking my small brain trying to figure this one out.
Short of going to Valve (which I'm doing next month) and asking them to figure it out for me, I ws at a complete loss here.

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Wait, you're going to visit Valve studios? I want pictures!!! and to go too!

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Oh cool yeah be sure to take photos and show us here!

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Yeah, I'm going to Washinton in June to visit my daughter and son-in-law. He is a concept and 3d artist for Valve.
I've already been to the new studio they moved into and it's so cool. I got to meet and know a few of the guys working on the different games.
I will try to get some pics and post them for everyone.

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Wow that's awesome. Can't wait for the pictures

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Its also very valid to email valve your mapping questions. I've hade Gabe answer a few for me, as well as some of the other staff when I was tweaking the BSP compiler for eternal-silence.

You could look into the whole slippery-mud-slope-thingy in HL2?(The part in "Route Canal" with a bunch of barnacles on the ceil and the bodies at the bottom) I think that has something to do with the changing of friction. All you would have to do then is make it flat. (Of course, what would a GoldSrc mapper like me know )

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I will ask when I get there and post how they would do it here. Plus I wanna see what they're working on again. Can't say what it is but it looked DAMN cool.
I have sent some stuff to my son-in-law to get some feedback from some of the ppl there. That's how I got some of the ideas on my urbanwar map. (which I am deciding what type of map to make it)

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.