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#1 · July 24, 2011, 9:27 pm

I want to have a cube dropper that will drop a cube of the user's choice (not a monster box). One button to change between the cube types showing the selected one in a glass box. And another button to drop the cube.

Basically, I want something like Portal 2 Playground's cube spawner in my level.

#2 · July 24, 2011, 10:29 pm

maybe decompile and see how he did it.

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#3 · July 24, 2011, 10:32 pm

I tried that but I couldn't understand it.

#4 · July 25, 2011, 4:04 am

I will create a modified instance for you.

Edit:
I uploaded it after 3 hours of work, see attachments.
You must set the same prefixname of a dropper and its previewbox with the buttons.

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#5 · July 25, 2011, 1:30 pm

I tried using your instances, but can't get them to work.

I discovered that if I make a cube and give it an input "Skin" with a parameter override of 1, it will change into the companion cube.

#6 · July 25, 2011, 2:18 pm

That'll only work with a reflectocube if you enable using new skins.

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#7 · July 25, 2011, 3:04 pm

Just put both instances (the dropper and the preview with the buttons) in your map with func_instance and set both fixup names the same! Nothing else to do.

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#8 · July 25, 2011, 3:52 pm

One more thing, I don't want it to fizzle a cube that has been dropped. (In other words, I want to be able to drop multiple cubes.) How can I change that?

#9 · July 25, 2011, 8:07 pm

You can change it by changing the instance.
Open the dropper instance and remove the output "OnEndTouchAll !activator AddOutput OnUser1 !self:Dissolve" from the trigger_multiple named "Trigger" (it's the big one!). Now save the file and recompile your map. It should work.

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