blocking phys objects and player

My level contains rocks around the outside of the level and I have a
ball which I don't want people to fire over the rocks as they won't be
able to get it back. Is there a way of blocking both people and objects
in to a certain area?

A texture called CLIP , if it still exists in HL2. Should appear invisible and allow bullets hrough but not solid objects.

Make a blocking wall textured all over with it , and it will render invisible by default.

How about blocking objects but allowing players to pass through?

EDIT: The texture Gwil is talking about it call "tools_noclip". Just type in "tools" in the texture selectiong filter to quickly find it.

How about blocking objects but allowing players to pass through?

But under what kind of circumstances do you need that? It doesn't make any sense to have something equivalent to that in the real world.

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But under what kind of circumstances do you need that? It doesn't make any sense to have something equivalent to that in the real world.

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1. If you have physics objects in your DM map which also happens to have a cliff. Say you don't want them to toss everything off the cliff, including the weapons (as some players of high intelligence will probably do), but you want the player to be able to fall off. <o:p></o:p>

2. You have any type of hole in your map that you don't want objects wedged into <o:p></o:p>

3. You have a tunnel with a ladder in it that might taper as you descend into it and you don't want objects to end up lodged in it.<o:p></o:p>

Trust me there are a lot of places where it would seem to come in handy.

I have tools_noclip used in my map, but it doesn't block physics objects unfortunately :sad:

You're in luck! I've tested it and I believe I've found the solution. You'll need two objects.

1) Brush entity - func_clip_vphysics. Doesn't matter what texture you choose, it'll be invisible. Set the Filter Name field to the name of the next entity.

2) Point entity - filter_activator_class. Give it a name, set the Filter mode to "Disallow entities that match criteria", and set the Filter Classname to "player" (no quotes).

There, that's everything! I tested it with a prop_physics and it blocked it fine, while letting me go through it. I couldn't force the object through with the grav gun, either.

awesome, works perfectly now! :biggrin:

Thats great Nanodeath, that will come in handy in my hl2dm map.

Glad to be of service :biggrin: