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#11 · December 15, 2012, 2:42 am

i was using trigger_push before and it was like bowling and minigolf combined. I managed to get the desired effect with lots and lots of catapults and targets

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#12 · December 15, 2012, 3:00 am

Bowling and minigolf combined? Sounds fun. 'thinks about rolling bowling balls into holes'

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#13 · December 15, 2012, 9:02 pm

To turn off them exploding on touch, do the following:
- put a trigger_multiple (flags set to physics only) in your vac tube entrance
- give this trigger_multiple the following output:

Code: Select all: OnTrigger !activator Addoutput ExplodeOnTouch 0

- put another trigger at the exit point
- give this trigger_multiple the following output:

Code: Select all: OnTrigger !activator Addoutput ExplodeOnTouch 1

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#14 · December 16, 2012, 2:32 am

See, these are the things that are not documented I can't find that drives me nuts. Thank you

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#15 · December 16, 2012, 9:41 am

One other little trick with AddOutput:

Using it to change a KV isn't well-documented, but if you want to experiment with it from ent_fire, you have to wrap the "ExplodeOnTouch 1" or whatever in quotes. Otherwise it says you should be using it to add outputs, not change KVs.

Skotty: Isn't the "Explode on Touch" feature a spawnflag, not a KV? Can you change those?

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#16 · December 16, 2012, 9:50 am

It's no spawnflag. And if it would be, just replace the spawnflags value including >something< with the number that excludes >something<.
It works for everything.

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#17 · December 16, 2012, 6:17 pm

okay hammer is acting up and it is really pissing me off. after making this one little change, the compiler freaks out over nodes with no volumes and invalid brushes and textures. I try to use a cordon to find this thing and hammer crashes. I attempt to reload the map and now it crashes every single time it attempts to load it

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#18 · December 16, 2012, 6:22 pm

Never put ANYTHING in "" in any Hammer window!!!

The addoutput parameters may be seperated by a space, but they still are saved together. So do NEVER put "ExplodeOnTouch 0" in there, NEVER ""

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#19 · December 16, 2012, 6:24 pm

I wish you had posted that sooner -_-

EDIT: i removed the quotes in notepad. It works now, thanks

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#20 · December 16, 2012, 6:28 pm

That's why I didn't wrote it in "" in the other post

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