Entities for hl2

I was browseing threw my list of entitys when I came upon the phys_motor entity and all of those types. Now im not sure as of what all of them are like the spring and such. Is there any entity guides out yet, that show how to use them and what they do? Links please.

Right now there arn't any guides to the entitys, and I don't think we
will be seeing any for a while. I also guess you are using the hl2.fgd
that came with the leak, most of the entities in that list are obsolete.

I dont have the leak. But yea i suppose it will be some time before we get the guide. Also i kinda posted this in teh wrong category. Supposed to be in HL2 editing my bad.

http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Entities

Ahh thanks just what i wanted.

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are you certain? thats a link you know. :biggrin:

seems like science and gaming go more and more hand in hand. entities like phys spring, thruster, torque ,... seem to require (basic) knowledge of physics, so one who knows physics would have an advantage over the previous kid-from-the-block mapper. unless if the latter would learn physics through gaming, whish would be great: gaming offering education

Depends on the game whether you use physics or not. Some games don't go for physics where Half-Life 2 has shown a great implementation of it.

I myself have made a small physics program once, two balls of adjustable size and weigth that could be fired away at each other. I must say, it's pretty hard to get physics to work well in a simulation... then again, I'm not an expert in both physics and programming (yet)... :biggrin:

As for that entity list... looks very usefull. I'm not sure about how accurate it is but untill there's an official list posted at the VERC I'll go with this one...

Hmm, I thought about a Wiki system for tuts here a while ago. However I don't believe that there will be any integrity unless there are a lot of people using the system (i.e. "experts" checking over most documents every day), I think moderatorship is here to stay :smile:

Well I read the entity list it wasnt really specific. It told me most of what I knew, some I didnt. Really its not all that useful like saying phys_motor is a entity that makes some type of circular movement on another entity......that helps huh lol. Well just have to wait it out.

I browsed through the hl2world's entity guide, and it wasn't all that useful. The list looks complete, but it doesn't really go into any depth to implementing the entity.

We'll just have to be patient and wait until the final SDK gets released. Anything prior is just speculation and might not really apply to the final version.

If anyone wants to write some guides for them to go up on this site, then feel free :smile:

Leperous, I love your avatar.

Perhaps you should make another one for Loreal, with an equally attractive model?

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<DIV class=quotetext>seems like science and gaming go more and more hand in hand. entities like phys spring, thruster, torque ,... seem to require (basic) knowledge of physics, so one who knows physics would have an advantage over the previous kid-from-the-block mapper. unless if the latter would learn physics through gaming, whish would be great: gaming offering education </DIV></DIV>

Sorry to go a bit OT... dont have HL2 yet, but I might as well contribute something.
You couldnt be more right blister. To get a realistic game engine, you need to base it on real physics. I've only done high school physics so far (which doesnt cover things like springs and torque), but doing that really helped me create Stellar War, a spaceship sim (dont ask for a DL link, I sorta borked the code and the game doesnt work anymore :sad: ).

I had that idea too. If I were a teacher, I would use game design
as projects where students can learn anything from geometry, physics,
and computer science while mapping.

What could be more fun and motivational?