Gravity Control?

i want to make an fy map... no not another iceworld clone. you get one
hint: i need a way to set negative gravity. give up? a level where you
fly around the ceiling and walk on walkways at the edges of the level.
i just thought of a name: fy_gravboots. all i need is a way to set the
gravity for the level at a negative value. i was playing around with
the sv_ commands and found that ragdolls on the ceiling just look plain
funny. any help would be rewarded with points and gold stars.

If you have grav boots, wouldn't it make more sense for the gravity to just be low? Setting your gravity of 200 will really kick up you up there and take a decent amount of time to land on the walkways. Anyway, I know you can't have negative gravity i.e. have the player float naturally.

i was just in the game and messing with sv_gravity. i set it to -200 in
a room filled with hostages and they all went to the ceiling after i
reset the server. there was a ragdoll magnet at the bottom
of the level, so when i killed them they would fly and hit the floor
then float back towards the ceiling. i just need to know if there is a
way to make it so that the server will automatically have a sv_gravity
setting when the level starts.

Oh, well then. Color me stupid.

/gets out crayons

btw i love your avatar! awesome! #1!!!!!1!1!!!!!>!@

use the

point_servercommand entity?

O_o

remember if you modify grav that 800 is normal (at least for HL1 + steam + amx)

try setting the gravity trigger (is that it still) and set it to -1.0 or something similar if it still uses the old method.

i think youre on to something, corona. i completely missed that entity. i will look into that...

/edit

i looked into it breifly and found nothing on how to use that particular entity. any suggestions anyone?

my guess whould be using that entity.
Give it a name, turn of smartedit and add: "sv_gravity" value = 200.
Then trigger that thing.

http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Trigger_gravity

I guess that doesn't help that much, though...if gravity has to be an integer between 0 and 1...that doesn't leave a lot of options :-P "integer" was probably a mistake? Not sure exactly.

you cen set trigger_gravity to negative numbers. I have a 'windtunnel' on my funhouse map that when you walk into the windtunnel you pass through a trigger_gravity that sets the gravity to -.1 which makes you slowly float to the ceiling as if you where getting hit with a lot of air.

Unfortunately you have to pass through the trigger_gravity for it to effect something. When I put a ragdoll in the room it was resting on the ground .. I guess because it isnt passing through the trigger_gravity :/ But yeah, trigger_gravity works... kinda

The point_servercommand is a little odd in that you never need more than one in the level because the entity doesn't have any parameters save for a name, but I think it's the one you want (or at least it's an option). You only ever need one in the level because any server commands you want executed are passed to it by some other entity....probably a logic_auto. What I'd imagine you'd do is you'd have the logic_auto execute the server command sv_cheats 1 with 0 delay, sv_gravity -200 with 0.01 delay, and then sv_cheats 0 with 0.02 delay...maybe that's a messy way of doing it, but it would work I think.

Nanodeath, you are my hero! Change that to an answer and I'll mark it
as correct. Oh yeah, and I changed it from sv_gravity -200 to
sv_gravity 100, seems more logical.