func_breakable question.

In order to get some practise using entities I came up with the idea of creating a Heath Robinson type of machine with trains, pendulums, pushables, rotating objects, water and anything else I can think of to do something silly like squash a Headcrab. I'd llike to follow the whole chain of events with a tracking camera, too, if possible.

While messing about, though, I found I couldn't break a sheet of glass (set to break under pressure) by pushing a barrel on to it from above, it just lands on the surface. Is it possible to give "weight" to a pushable object? Or trigger an event when two brush based entities collide?

Any help you can give me, Lads, would be appreciated.

You mean Rube Goldberg?
http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/pencil_sharpener.htm

You might could put a box set to trigger_multiple or something above it, that way when the pushable falls into it, you can have it trigger something (e.g. the glass). Not really sure though.

Well, you can trigger things when a func_pushable enters a certain area. Don't ask me how though, can't remember :smile: So do it that way.

Simply have a trigger_once on the surface of the glass target the glass (func_breakable). Don't forget to put a check in the pushable flag for the trigger once. Of course this is assuming you don't have a player running around messing up your entities.

Can't you set a no clients flag in the trigger_once? Its been so long since I've tinkered with entities, I really can't remember.

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Simply have a trigger_once on the surface of the glass target the glass (func_breakable). Don't forget to put a check in the pushable flag for the trigger once. Of course this is assuming you don't have a player running around messing up your entities.

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Cheers, JFry. That works perfectly.

Hornpipe2 said:
You mean Rube Goldberg?

Yes, only on a much grander scale. It's the kind of thing that amuses me, I'm afraid.

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Its kinda funny I just now realized what 'no clients' meant exactly.