[article] Lasers for the masses

This is a discussion topic for the article "Lasers for the masses" by matt which can be found here

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an introduction

T'is a good introduction to lasers (or beams as they are called). But eventually, mappers will want to know more complex things. Making the laser hurt someone (simple, add in a trigger_hurt brush with a damage value). Have the laser not go down in a straight line but wiggle a little bit (give your env_beam entity a noise value). Want your beam to look like something other than a red line, change the color. Go to Vlatitude.com and check out their resources, they have all the different sprites for lasers there.

Still a very good tutorial. Good Job matt

A good tutorial for newcomers to lasers, though a few more features could have been explored. To take an example, perhaps you could have gotten into how to accomplish different colored lasers. I'm not gonna let the fugly brushes representing a laser generator hurt the score.

Tutorial is comprehensive and simple. Exactly what me and my fellow noob mappers need. thx alot !

Damn, yet another laser tutorial I've seen and I STILL don't know how to make those cool ring lasers like in the tram intro sequence to Half-Life.

Thanks, I thought about making it a bit more complex, but It is a n0ob tut.

This would be good for a mod, perhaps an "Entrapment"-esque infiltration game.

The laser rings are just a bunch of regular lasers arranged in a circle, and the start and end entities are func_plats that go up and down. IMPORTANT: The func_plats must have an origin brush, even though they don't normally require one.