Locking Doors

Ok I want to make it so when a button is pressed... A door is unopenable, (Can Be Broken) but is locked so no one can enter or exit. By using a switch. And when the switch is thrown again, the door is unlocked.

so speakith the last person whom should..

button is targeted to a MM which is targeted to a second MM and the door.

MM #1 fails to activate the door, but MM#2 does..

door opens on second attempt.

crawls back under rock to avoid scoffing

The button is a func_button. The door is a func_door. You also need an env_global and a multisource.

The initial state of the global determines whether the door starts unlocked or locked (make sure the flag "set intial state" is ticked). Also set the trigger type to "toggle". The global sets some state "state1" (say). The multisource takes this for its "global state master".

The button targets the global, so that every time it is pressed the global will change state. The multisource tracks this change. The door uses the multisource for its master.

notice, mine was not yellow :biggrin:

a little insider joke for you new members

What's wrong with the good old fashioned method of just using the multisource, without an env_global?

Leperous said:
What's wrong with the good old fashioned method of just using the multisource, without an env_global?

Last time I remember trying this, it didn't work.

However, you may well be right. I forget the easiest way of "mastering" an object, since I would have used an info_alias :razz: This is the one method that I know works for sure in normal HLDM.

Hrm, well that's the way I always did it, but I guess yours means you learn that extra bit more in the process!

No, your way is better (assuming it works). If I had known that way worked, I would have chosen it :smile:

So how would i set it up with just the multiscource?

Double Post

I dunno, ask the LepMong :heee:

You just make a multisource, and set is as the master of the door; basically the door will be locked until you trigger the master (with a button or a breakable or whatever). You can do some pretty funky things with multisources- they are not 'active' unless all things that targeting it are active themselves, e.g. if you have 2 buttons both targeting it the multisource won't be active unless both buttons are on at the same time (if one button is turned off the multisource will deactivate and thus your door will be locked again- see the map Rustmill for some multisource spinkeeness).

so the doors have to start locked?

Make a trigger_auto or something target the button (or get the button to start on if you can do that these days?!) and the door should start unlocked. Or I guess use an env_global...

You wouldent belive how f**kin confused I am at this point. I feel so - Nuff said

Sphinx said:
You wouldent belive how f**kin confused I am at this point. I feel so - Nuff said

says in small voice

look at it my way, after all this time, the MM still eludes my grasp :/

Sphinx said:
You wouldent belive how f**kin confused I am at this point. I feel so - Nuff said

/me pets Sphinx :smile:

Tell me what's confusing you. I only gave a very terse explanation at first, but I can go into more detail if it would help.

Honestly, the basic concepts are very simple, once you get past all the technical crap.

funny, terse explanations and gollum somehow read as an oxymoron

kicks Orph :wink:

Gollum said:
kicks Orph :wink:

rubs ensuing bump

"What?"

K um I need to know exactly what to do.. Heres how I want it set up... The door will be unlocked.... when you go inside, if u stand in front of the door, and press "Use" the door will lock. Press it again the door is unlocked, there will be more than 10 of these types of doors, and one with a switch. It's for a Specialist Role Play Map.

Theres a tutorial on it I believe, or was...

/me hits Lep with a stick and sends Vash to eat his scabby legs...

On that note- wheres Vash?

"Gone" with Cassius :rolleyes:

Sphinx said:
K um I need to know exactly what to do.. Heres how I want it set up... The door will be unlocked.... when you go inside, if u stand in front of the door, and press "Use" the door will lock. Press it again the door is unlocked, there will be more than 10 of these types of doors, and one with a switch. It's for a Specialist Role Play Map.

Hmmm, that's a lot harder than using a switch, I'm afraid :sad: Not sure how to do this. Do you really need it to be the USE key that (un)locks the door? Won't a switch on the wall do?