Firing Bombs, Aerial Faith Plates, Pneumatic Diversity Vents
I'm looking to create a boss-battle style map where bombs drop out of a pneumatic diversity vent and are launched on an aerial faith plate straight towards you. I would also like to use pneumatic diversity vents as a testing element in the levels leading up to the fight. how would I go about accomplishing this?
(as before, I am a n00b incapable of doing much at all, so things will need to be explained VERY. SLOWLY. and in much detail. 
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Sounds like you played 12 angry tests...
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You should probably learn the basics of hammer before doing something sorta complex like that. I highly doubt someone is going to take the time to explain how to do this 'in much detail'. Even if they did, I have no idea how they'd do it 'slowly'...
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I am practicing... 
I'm much better than I was before, when I couldn't even figure out how to work the block tool. most of the tutorials I've found have mostly been 
about crap that they assume you know, which I don't, but I've managed to figure out this much. I've found some good tutorials now, so I'm making big jumps. I was also sort of kidding about the in much detail part. I can look up stuff I don't understand
[Edit] yes, I played 12 Angry test xD but I'm trying to make something quite different.
In summary, you'd use a point_template to spawn the bombs, and a trigger catapult for the faith plate. Not sure how to get it to follow a player, maybe a func_tank? I'm not sure how CaretCaret did it.
oh, so hitting the faith plate wouldn't make the bomb explode? I was looking on another post about how to make bombs, and there is actually a point_futbol_shooter entity that has an output that drops a bomb. I wasn't certain if the bomb would explode on contact with the faith plate so maybe I'd have to mess with the bomb's settings to do so. thank you 
Well, it might. But if it hits the trigger_catapult (which usually sits above the faith plate) first, then it won't explode. Gel blobs do the same thing (which is an interesting puzzle concept to use).
oooooh... now I have a map idea xD
oooooh... now I have a map idea xD
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