[article] Rotating Door

This is a discussion topic for the article "Rotating Door" by DrGlass which can be found here

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How to make a simple door that swings open

I already knew how to make a door... but I really want to know how you can make it just swing open in one direction. It should be openable from both sides, but only open to one side.

The dev/measuredoor texture doesn't exist in my editor, im using CS:S, is it simply a Hl2 texture, or have i to do something to set up my editor to encompass this. ( i set up my editor before the full SDK was released)

Filter "measure" (w/o quotes), without any keywords, then a lot of measure textures will appear, although they don't appear in the "Dev" keyword section.

I would like to say "Well Done!"

This is a brilliant introduction to rotating doors for newbies and a reference for experienced alike.

I have learnt now how not to use an origin brush!

Good tut, helped me out.

I can make doors like this for centuries. However, i don't know how to make them using hammer. Useful!

well done deserves 10/10 as all tuts are good wheres this 1/10 then?

Beautiful toot, ty. I am really very stupid and cannot figure out how to seperate the frame from the door. "cut along the white lines" i am totally lost here. please help.

-chillin-

Great basic rotating door tutorial but is there any way to make a garage like door without having to do with other phys stuff?

Great tutorial. Helped me out a lot. Thanks for putting it out!

Very helpful for me, im just learning all the basics, this tutorial worked great!

Very nice, I tried it as you wrote it to see if it made any sense, and it was easy to follow. One thing you may add in there is the grid size. Make sure to tell people to adjust there grid size when making those cuts. If they dont they will never get the cuts right. Over all a very good TUT.

Will do

I had problems with the origin, the axises on the doors dont work, with the textures it looks wrong =), and please include how to do the handles! I really need a full door, and the textures on the inside frame of the door, and the sides of the door +)! Still very good =)

@silence

This tutorial is about func_doors, you need to look up prop_door_rotating.

I'm a newb, but got it going. Thanks for the help.

Hey drglass, I found a nice sound and texture, but how can I make the texture match inside the frame? It is all distorted and looks bad when I apply it to the sides, bottom, and top (but it is the same as the door, and the outside of the frame)

Best to find a solid texture or a close match and apply that to the inside of the door frame. Truth is that as long as it doesn't stand out people don't see it. Run through hl2 and use console command "impulse 103" (0r 4,5,6) to see what texture they used.

Tanks for this it really help a noob to fix a door

I'm just lost at the origin part...it doesn't show up!!

You forgot to put in that you need "Toggle helpers" toggled to set the origin!!