[article] Key Locked Door

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

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Make a door that can only be opened with a key card

Thank you so much. This will be incorporated as the final touches in my single-player map. Not only did you go over the basics (very clearly), but you also have the additional jazzy things to make the setup more elaborate.

You'll see the setup in my new map as soon as next week.

Cant wait!

Very nice tutorial

my only crit would be the blurry red line/text in your illustration are an eyesore...

otherwise it's clean, simple, and organized.

Had to keep the picture small, admin's order

Good tutorial, and yeah, as gemini said, that red writing is a real strain on the eyes. Consider perhaps, changing it to white?

Done!

Nice simple workaround for a gameplay feature HL doesn't directly support.

Great tut - thank you very much!

Hey I wanna know how I can make a door that would be locked on the inside after a user pressed a button. I am making a control room in CS where the user can walk into a room with monitors and I want them to be able to lock the door after themselves. How can i modify this tutorial to allow me to do something like this.

Great Tut, but if you could figure out how to use it in HL2DM that would be great! Or would valve have 2 update Source SDK first? Either way I would like 2 know...

I'm sure its possible, but it would be very hard. This is a work around that give the player the illusion that he has the key when infact he is only setting off a trigger that unlocks the door.

Makes Sense... Thx!

Great Tut, Helped me a lot

And for anyone trying to downlaod the sample map there, you have to right clcik and type properties, then copy the URL into the adress bar, then change the www.snarkpit.com thing to .net

or just type in or click the link http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=files&download=196

Thank you, your Tut Really helped me set off my first map, hopefully i can incorporate a few more useful key/door things thanks to you.

Mudbee... simply put a func_button on the inside of the room. When the player activates the button have the trigger close the door then lock it. Use the I/O functions on the func_button to do this.

If it's for multiplayer... Make sure to disable the button on the outside when your button on the inside is triggered so other players can't enter the room. However!!! give the other players some type of activator somewhere that un-locks the door otherwise some kid will get in that room and lock everyone else out ;).

Question about the tutorial...

Why does it only work for single player levels? Perhaps a few tweaks could get it to work for multiplayer? Like... perhaps the key card could re-spawn after a given amount of time so others could use it to unlock the door again? Then after they go through the door a trigger could close the door and reset the whole process after a time period has passed.

I'm sure there are other possible ways to achieve this, many that would work in multilayer. A multi player tutorial would be a good sister tut.

Oh man, I wanted to do exactly the same kind of tut.
I did my key thing almost exactly the same way, instead of trigger brush
I parented my model to a physbox, anyway nice to see this in a tut.
Oh and instead of a battery pack I used the key model from lostcoast.
Anyway, I gues I won't have to make a tut about this then., nice job mate.