Breakable Boxes are invisible

Okay, I created some boxes using 'prop_physics_respawnable'. I compile
the map and they are invisible. I can break them and the pieces will
be all over the ground and if I'm playing with someone they sometimes
get stuck and don't know why because they can't see the boxes. Anyone
have any ideas? Thanks.

You probably accidentally set the "Start Fade Dist/pixels" or "End Fade
Dist/pixels" properties of the prop_physics to some small positive number,
causing it to always fade even a few units away from the player.

Go to
the entity properties and change them back to their defaults: "Start
Fade Dist/pixels" = -1, "End Fade Dist/pixels" = 0. And to prevent this
in the future, turn off "Show Helpers" in the
Map
Operations toolbar, it's the rightmost icon.

Hey, thanks a lot. I've read all about that and have no idea why
I didn't try that when I ran into this problem. On a somewhat
related note: Do you know how to put items in the boxes? Like
when you brake the box, lets say a health pack pops out. But
yeah, thanks again for the help.

P.S. - Hwang is the man!

I believe that in the properties of the prop, you can select what item
to spawn on break. So set it to a health kit or something, so
when the box breaks, a health kit is created. You don't actually
place an item in the box :smile:

Would I set up some kind of output or what? I'm not sure exactly
how I'm supposed to get the crates to leave things behind. Anyone
have any ideas?