Player disintegration

This effect that I want is hard to decribe. What im trying to achieve is when the player is killed (In deathmatch), their bodies decinigrate as if they were hit by a combine ball. I specifically want them to be killed by a trigger. What im trying to achieve is when a "trigger_hurt" is activated, everyone dies (at massive scale) as if they were hit by the combine ball (the AR2's secondary fire). But Ive tried all types of dammage in the trigger_hurt entity, and there is nothing that mimics that.
I find that env_laser does this (when you rermain in the beam's center, but I would have to set up a massive amount to get the job done (remeber i want to kill people on a massive scale), and thats too hard. Ive tried trigger_physics_trap, but that only destroys physics props, not bodies.
Any thoughts?

Well, if all else fails, you can always tie a whole bunch of env_lasers
to a func_rotating and make it sweep the entire gamearea.

i dont know how to do it, but i think its something about the trigger_physics_trap entity

i dont know how to do it, but i think its something about the trigger_physics_trap entity

That entity only destroys physics props (If you've read my first post), not bodies.

trigger_physic_trap is correct for this just change the flags to set what it affects.

trigger_physic_trap is correct for this just change the flags to set what it affects.

that dosn't seem to work. maybe there is a way to teleport all
the players into a small room for a split second and shoot a laser at
them, then pop them back to the map where they were.

or you could just make one HUGE laser...

Emoo- the physics trap only works on props, not body rag dolls (yes
it works on prop_ragdoll, but not dead bodies...If you can undersand
that jumble)

dr. Glass Its a good idea.....but TBH thats a lot of entity work to
transport them to a room and then back again. How would I define where
they end up?

How is a giant laser achieved? Ive set the width to a massive
amount, but the dammage only seems to come from the exact center of the
beam. It just increases the sprite (making it look ugly).

edit: Thanks for the suggestions everyone, but I figured it out, I
set up jut one laser, with the target to "!player" now when ever the
laser is triggered, it will travel from the env_laser, to the player.
If you set the laser to a brightness of zero it will be invisable,
giving you the effect....now I just need to experiment to see if it
works on everyone....

Okay lep may want this in another forum or something, but could i call
on some one to test this thing out with me? Because im worried that
since im targeting the same !player it will strike a random target
(meaning it will strike a random player) which isnt what I want, im
wondering is someone will just do a quick test for me? PM me if you can.

According to http://www.editlife.net/tutorials.php?id=34 you can use
"player" instead of "!player" to target all players. I assume the
laser will target a single player, then switch to the next as soon as
he's dead.

I tried a death laser in a test map, and I was able to block it with a
filing cabinet. Worldspawn might block it too, I didn't
check. Maybe if you had two lasers, one at the top of the map and
another at the bottom?

Yes world does block the laser (which is good), so illl just have to have many lasers around...thanks for the difference between !player and player. That will help :smile: