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#1 · August 20, 2011, 11:23 pm

I'm making a boss battle in which the boss can create portals to drop bombs (the one's Wheatley used)on the player. I need a Bomb Dropper for this to work but I don't know how to get one.

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#2 · August 20, 2011, 11:46 pm

The easiest way right now is to decompile one of valve's map, since it's not stealing or anything, so it's ok

MissStabby made a great map that has bombs, maybe you can ask her

Basically, I think the bomb dropper is just a cube dropper with a bomb just replace the cube with a bomb entity.

#3 · August 21, 2011, 6:45 am

Yes. You just need to build a cube dropper (or anything else where bombs come out) and set the bomb in it. Now just use a point_template to be able to respawn it.

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#4 · August 21, 2011, 12:02 pm

I would have tried that but I can't seem to find the bomb entity anywhere. I'll PM Miss Stabby and see what did with her map.

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#5 · August 21, 2011, 12:08 pm

Actually the bomb is a personality sphere, it is a core that explodes
If you look up the model files and type in angry you can find the bomb

#6 · August 22, 2011, 4:25 am

It may be that the bomb is not in the FGD file of the Portal 2 SDK. In my signature you find a link "Improved FGD files". Install it and you will have some new entities and keyvalues/in-/outputs for a lot of entities.
The name of the bomb is prop_exploding_futbol.

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#7 · August 22, 2011, 10:38 am

MissStabby told me it was point_futbol_shooter, and it works! However, my prop_portals aren't spawning where they supposed to. They both end up spawning to the middle of the map.
Here's what I'm doing, I'm making a boss battle that involves the boss creating his own set of portals. One portal is under a bomb spawner and the other is on a wall to fling the bomb at the player.

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#8 · August 22, 2011, 12:37 pm

You need to set the Prop_Portals by outputs. There is a output called "NewLocation". There you have to give the x y z coordinates and pitch yaw roll for the portal.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prop_portal

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#9 · August 23, 2011, 4:38 pm

Ok, I got the bombs working and the portals working. I have one more little issue but that's on another topic.

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