halo teleporter

I got a teleporter that I am making, and I want it to look like the one
of Halo in the Bloodgulch levels. Basically its a box that is character
height with a green liquid glowing inside of it. Everytime I try
creating this teleporter the green liquid is invisible and it wont
teleport unless I have it's texture as the trigger entity.

You can make the liquid teleport by making two identical brushes in the
same place. One brush should be your green liquid (a func_water or
func_illusionary), and the other should be your teleporter entity. From
outside the brushes the player will see the water, and when he enters
it, he will be teleported.

func_water won't work since only the top face is ever rendered. That might be why its invisible...

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func_water won't work since only the top face is ever rendered. That might be why its invisible...

If only you could choose what side of the water cube got rendered. You could make waterfalls, teleporters ... stargates.

I believe something someone tried, sorry I can't remember who, was they made a waterfall by using cameras and screens. (the cameras looked at a pool of water somewhere else in the map and projected the image onto a "monitor")

You could do that and just have the teleport entity right before the monitor.

Or something like that.

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The problem is, you cant project an image from a camera onto a world object in HL1.

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I have no idea how to render the sides of a water brush. They won't even render if it's a world brush. It must be possible, since I've seen it done before, but nothing I've tried ever works.

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Its to do with the renderer. If youre in software mode, all sides of the water are rendered. Problem is, noone plays in software mode.

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You use a custom texture thats similar to water, or the water texture itself...

Oh, and don't be a fool by making it a water entity! If its a teleporter or waterfall, theres really no need for it to be actually water, use a converyor for a waterfall and select "not solid". If you made the teleporter water then people could in theory drown in the teleporter if they didn't go all the way in.

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lol. This is for counterstrike 1.6

Anyways, what about that func_illusionary that was suggested? I don't
know if it will work but I will try it out...also, will rotating the
water block to face outward be possible?

I glanced through this and am confused. I may have overlooked it so ignore this post if I err.

Teleporters in HL1 are or can use the "AAA" trigger brush which becomes invisible once the entity is set up.

Why would someone use water as a trigger, when the AAA is unseen?

Do not make the teleporter more complex than it is.. I am stupid, and I made them function in HL1.

shrugs

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I glanced through this and am confused. I may have overlooked it so ignore this post if I err.
Teleporters in HL1 are or can use the "AAA" trigger brush which becomes invisible once the entity is set up.
Why would someone use water as a trigger, when the AAA is unseen?
Do not make the teleporter more complex than it is.. I am stupid, and I made them function in HL1.
shrugs

Because this was in the HL2 forum then moved here.

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Crono said:
Because this was in the HL2 forum then moved here.

So, is it now in the proper forum? Does that make my answer right/wrong now?

Sorry.. /me didn't know it had been moved.

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Using a !water texture on a solid brush makes all faces visible in-game
last time I tested (and that was not using software mode).

So you would have to use a solid brush covered with a texturename
starting with '!' and you should place a trigger_teleport entity just
in front of it. I think that's how they did it in those Deathmatch:
Classic maps.

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