Moving and functional gel tubes
Hi! Right now, I'm making a Wheatley themed map, and I want to make a functional gel tube, that appears from the ceiling, making a hole in it. But I don't know how to make the tube move.
I tried with two connected path_track, but I don't see the tube move (and its roted 90 degrees from it original angle). What can I do?
NOTE: Maybe helps that the tubes and the path_tracks are in a func_instance
You don't need to use path_tracks for a simple linear motion. Use a func_door or func_movelinear. Make them out of nodraw and parent the tubes to them.
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Attached is a (very lazy) setup of how I would do it. Make sure you've got prop_dynamics parented to a func_door or func_movelinear. Func_tracktrains could work but they're more complicated than what you need here.
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I did what you said to me, but still I dont see results. Maybe I have to put a higher number in "Move Distance"
Retexture the movelinear with something visible. Did you set the right direction in the move direction parameter?
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I tried with two connected path_track, but I don't see the tube move (and its roted 90 degrees from it original angle). What can I do?
NOTE: Maybe helps that the tubes and the path_tracks are in a func_instance
For the gel vactube not moving, make sue it's a prop_dynamic. For the angled spawn, you need to tick the flag "Fixed Orientation". Also make sure you specify the first path_track into the func_tracktrain's First Stop Target property.
useful tools and stuff here on TWP 
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Also, if there is going to be gel coming from the tube, be sure to parent your info_paint_sprayer to the func_door/func_movelinear.
And to make the tube create a hole in the ceiling, tie the brushes you want to break to func_physboxes and set them to break on pressure.
I did what you said to me , but still nothing. And, Dr. Toaster, I did that, but the brush doesn't appears
Can you upload the vmf? I have a feeling this would be easier to troubleshoot if we knew exactly what your setup was.
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