Shattering glass

If anyone can figure out how this is done (see CS Office)...

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You mean like this.

Well thanks to the in-editor entity help, I've found your answer :smile:

The entity to use in this situation is the func_breakable_surf, which
makes objects break apart in fragments just like the cs_office glass.
Make your glass brush as you normally would, but make all the faces
textured in the nodraw texture other than the actual face you want to
be your glass (it will be rendered from both sides don't worry) which
you of course texture as glass. Set all the relevant entity properties
to glass, but don't bother setting the render mode or anything as these
are all handled by the shaders specified in the materials. Now compile
and admire your funky glass.

Thanks, tutorial up for it :smile:

I've made my glass breakable as told to (all faces no draw, one face glass texture glass/glasswindowbreak070a) but when i compile the paine doesn't appear (it works fine as func_breakable)

i get this error in the compile screen

"if Material glass/glasswindowbreak070b is depending on itself through materialvar $crackmaterial! Ignoring... "

and the brush does not appear. this was working fine on a different map i made but i cant work out whats causing this

Thanks, tutorial up for it :smile:

nice :smile:

when i get XP i'll make some tutorials on these kind of things, with images :smile:

some noob questions...

I followed the glass tutorial. I opened the lockdown map to see there glass. evrything is the same in my map that I can see.... and I get this...



go around the other side and I get this...



All sides are covered in nodraw except 1 with glass texture. I've made it 1 unit and up to 8 units thick. I have env_cubemaps placed on both sides. The tutorial said prop_data should be set to glass.window, the lockdown map has it set to none, I've tried both and still not workin :sad: What am I missin here...

2nd noob question...

I loaded the sdk and hammer after the full release... why dont I have prefabs? I only get a "box" prefab listed. Arent barrells and stuff prefabs? or models? how do I load both?

Thanks for any help!

Barrels and things are entered into your map as prop entities now - you
would normally use the prop_static and prop_physics to enter them into
your levels. More info on the different prop entities can be found in
the SDK documentation.

My only thought on the glass is to make sure you are using a material
that works, use the exact same one as the lockdown map if you aren't
already.

If it's not a func_breakable_surf, the other side shouldn't be covered in nodraw.

I had the same problem.

You must cover the surface you want to break, in a texture called, glassbreak, i think there are 3 or 4 differet glasses with break in there name. Otherwise, the game does not know what texture to display when the glass is broken.

yup, wrong glass texture.... :rolleyes:

thanks...

Hey this may sound stupid, but i cant figure outt how to put different
textures on different sides, so i cant get this nodraw and glass to
work, dont hurt me..... :sad:

Use the "face edit sheet" tool as it appears to be now known - more
frequently referred to as the surface properties tool or texture
application tool. Bring this up by pressing shift-a or the sidebar
button with the multi-coloured box icon. Now you can select a single
face and choose a texture for it.