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#1 · May 17, 2011, 5:46 am

Hey!
If the indicator lights turn orange cause the texture toggle entity is triggered by a button, they don?t turn back blue in time after the delay I set for the "OnUnpressed"-Output! but the Panel with the x for closed and the V for opened does! Thats why I can tell these events dont happen at one time, like they should! The funny thing is, that the the time-difference is dynamic, sometimes they even turn back blue simultaneously! What can I do?
Thanks a lot!

#2 · May 17, 2011, 10:06 am

I'm not sure I understand. You have a sign and an indicator strip. When you unpress the button they don't turn back blue simultaneously, but both do eventually? Have you set a delay on the outputs or do you have a timer?

#3 · May 17, 2011, 5:09 pm

the output "onunpressed" fires with a delay of 7 seconds. It fires at the texture toggle and at my door, that I want to be closed after 7 seconds. The door and the X-sign (that is corresponding directly to env_texturetoggle) work just fine and close/change color after 7 seconds, ONLY THE STRIP DOESNT ON TIME! BUT SOMETIMES IT DOES! ITS different every time, which I dont understand
Thanks a lot!

#4 · May 18, 2011, 6:34 am

Well, it doesn't make sense, but I don't have much to go on . Sometimes starting all over help.

#5 · May 18, 2011, 6:37 am

Can we see the VMF?

#6 · May 18, 2011, 6:45 am

I've actually noticed some odd delaying with indicator strips too. I've seen situations where all of the strip would toggle except one overlay which stayed in the wrong state until I went through a portal and then it updated. No idea what the cause is.

#7 · May 18, 2011, 10:30 am

Omnicoder wrote:

I've actually noticed some odd delaying with indicator strips too. I've seen situations where all of the strip would toggle except one overlay which stayed in the wrong state until I went through a portal and then it updated. No idea what the cause is.

Very strange.

off-topic: is that Julian Assange in your avatar?

#8 · May 18, 2011, 3:24 pm

by the way, my strip parts are OVERLAYS, and no FUNC_BRUSHES, if that matters anyhow. I remember having read a texture_toggle-tutorial where it says you need to make 1 unit-thick func-brushes and the texture it with the blue-points-texture....
cheers

#9 · May 18, 2011, 3:32 pm

They're meant to be overlays (look in the material files). I'm not sure, but there's a risk that they won't render properly if you use them in any other way.

#10 · May 18, 2011, 6:45 pm

mcdaniels wrote:

read a texture_toggle-tutorial where it says you need to make 1 unit-thick func-brushes and the texture it with the blue-points-texture

You should never do this. Whoever wrote that article is retarded.

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