force field

I've been trying for the past two nights to make a force field like the one on "Highway 17" I need it to appear and disappear when the player presses the button. What i have set up so far is a func_wall_toggle and a button set to "toggle" then an output on the button that "toggle"s the func_wall_toggle. I have nver gotten a button ro work, however. At least not in HL2 onlyin earlier versions. Please help meh!

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When you say you want it to disappear, do you mean it fades away as you
get further? If thats the case then what you use is a func_brush with
the texture on it (the texture automatically fades), then when you want
to make it so the player can pass through it, you set a trigger to kill
the func_brush. That was the case in most maps.

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Posting And You

In essence I want a section of the wall to wink out of existence when i press a button, and appear back when i press the button again. It's a forcefield that i wanna turn on and off. But I can't get it all to work together. I wanta button to toggle the forcfield.

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Hmm. Are you sure that a forcefiled isn't a model of some sort, or an entity?

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

No, I'm not sure, gball, I was hoping someone else would know. It's an integral part of my map, but this whole "input/output" stuff is kicking my butt.

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Make a func_brush (covered in the playerclip texture), give it a name,
"field1" in this case, then set the solid BSP to "yes", then in
solidity area set it to toggle. This will be your blocker brush (that
you can enable/disabloe the player to pass through) Have a trigger have
an output set to "ontrigger" (for intance), the have it target the
func_brush "field1" in this case, and have the "via this input" set to
disable (this will allow the player to pass through it) and set the
"via this input" to enable to make it so the player CANT pass through
it. Thats what stops the player from moving through it.

Now for the thing that makes it fade away you use the texture called combineshield thats
all (the texture automatically is set to fade away), you only need to
turn that into a func_brush and set its solidity to none so the player
isnt blocked by it.

There are 2 models that are used to simulate the shield generators,
they are models/props_combine/combine_fence01b.mdl and
models/props_combine/combine_fence01a.mdl

By default their skin is set to on, but you can change the way the
generators look (so they look as if they are turned off) by setting the
skin to 1 instead of 0. Make them prop_dynamics and give them a name.
"shieldgen" in this case, have an entity trigger it and have the output
on the triggering entity set to "on trigger" target the props
"shieldgen" in this case, and have the "via this input" set to Skin
with a parameter of 1 (for off) or 0 (for on).

There is a prefab called combine_shieldwall, look at it for everything and more.

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Posting And You

Hmm... I just wanted to tell the same thing Omegaslayer just did...

Anyway, I tried making my own, and it worked though... I set the button outputs so, that OnPressed->MyWall->Toggle

Properties: Delay before reset: 1

Flags: Don't move

And it works though... dunno what you did that it didn't work.

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Or check you hl2 Prefabs in Hammer :biggrin: , forcefield is there included :biggrin:

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Thx in advantage

Yeah the prefab is there (combine_shieldwall.vmf), but since nickel was
saying the I/Os were confusing him, I thought I would explain it a bit
more.

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