prop_physics_respawnable issue

I'm having a bit of a wierd problem with my prop_physics_respawnable
entities at the moment. They respawn fine, but if they were destroyed
by attacks rather than physics, then when they next respawn they will
be destroyed in a single hit. For instance, the explosive barrels
initially take a few shots from the pistol to blow up, but once they
respawn afterwards they blow up as soon as the first shot hits them. If
you destroy them with physics, then when they respawn they can be shot
multiple times as usual. I assume it has to do with their health values
not being reset upon respawn, but am curious if anybody else has them
working properly.

Although I don't have a solution, I can recreate the problem,
eliminating the possibility of the problem being anything to do with
your setup.

Try adding an "OnBreak" output using "SetHealth" (to some appropriate value)?

Well you'd think that would work, but it doesn't seem to :sad: I've tried
setting health to both reasonable and large amounts with no success,
and I've tried setting a delay so the health is set AFTER they respawn,
but no success. I've also tried the "AddHealth" parameter without luck.

How about a logic_relay that resets the health in this way every, say, 15 seconds? (link it to turning on and off a light so you can check it's working) But perhaps the problem is that they lose their name and all identity when they're respawned, in which case you're screwed and there is no answer :smile:

Actually, with my limited experience with HL2 mapping, it seems there is a lot of power but also a lot of really niggly little things that you can't do (e.g. it took me a whole day to work out how to make a thumper that doesn't kick up any dust), hopefully these things will be fixed in HL2's patch lifetime!

I was playing HL2DM I noticed same thing on the two DM maps...

If you can't figure it out Reno, then there's no way in hell I'LL be able to. But I feel your pain.

Well if samoflan has found the problem to occur in the official maps as
well, then its probably just an oversight in the game code and is like
to be fixed. I'll live with it for the time being :smile: