Animated textures or models for buttons?

Remember the old HL1 editing days where you made a button using a texture with the '~' characted in it and then you had a button that changed color and shading when pressed. I've not been able to find this in the HL2 editing environgment, but i suspect you use some kind of prop_static model or other to do this - Any suggestions?

Why oh why do you want to use a texture for a button?! Use a prop_ ! (e.g. prop_dynamic)

1. There are very few existing button models.
2. Not everyone wants the trouble of making their own.
3. Using a model for a button limits the size of it, whether it moves or not, the direction it moves in, and how far. Doing it the old way with brushes and animated textures does not.

I'm less than happy at the way that the work of a mapper has been significantly reduced and given over to modellers and suchlike.

There was some sarcasm in my message, but the point still stands- hopefully soon there'll be too many button models floating about for us to know what to do with :smile:

I don't know the texture specifics, but obviously you can use two func_wall_toggles, one with the 'on' and one with the 'off' texture on it, and cycle between them with a simple toggle output...