Parenting to Player
Simple question; is it possible to parent an entity to the player's origin in single player? I tried using !player as the parent, which did not work. Parenting to the portal gun is perfectly possible, but I can't get the offset quite right to be exactly where the player is standing.
Hi,
You could try this...
If you create a trigger_once and say a brush called 'box1', and then on trigger do a 'box1:SetParent:!activator', that will parent it to the player.
That does it somewhat, but if you go too close to any objects it disappears 'into' the object if you get too close.
The item will also disappear if you go upto and through a portal, and then it reappears when you're through the other side.
Suppose, depending on what you wanna do, that could help you?
Rob.
Ah, okay. So much more makes sense now! Thank you.
You could try this...
If you create a trigger_once and say a brush called 'box1', and then on trigger do a 'box1:SetParent:!activator', that will parent it to the player.
Now that I know that parenting objects to players is possible, I will try that as well. Your method will help with dynamically setting the parent for some invisible entities like info_targets in the entity setup I'm trying to use, so thank you as well.
I think I had an logic_auto parent an object to !player onmapspawn.
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I've got another question: I want an object to teleport to my position if it was dropped, with a delay of 10 seconds. What I got is:
Object to pick up:
OnPlayerPickup pickup_trigger trigger
OnPlayerDrop drop_trigger trigger
OnUser2: -> The actual teleport.
pickup_trigger:
OnTrigger drop_trigger cancelpending
drop_trigger:
OnTrigger drop_thing fireuser2
But I have no idea how to teleport that thing to my position. What I tried:
using point_teleport:
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent !player
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent player
Both cases didn't move the point_player so the object was dropped back were I started.
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !activator
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !player
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent player
Soo... that also didn't work
Now I tried a trigger_teleport, parented to my object. with object
OnUser2 trigger_teleport enable 0.00
OnUser2 trigger_teleport disable 0.30 with the the remote destination to a parented info_target, but this does absolutely nothing.
Anyone suggestions? 
Object to pick up:
OnPlayerPickup pickup_trigger trigger
OnPlayerDrop drop_trigger trigger
OnUser2: -> The actual teleport.
pickup_trigger:
OnTrigger drop_trigger cancelpending
drop_trigger:
OnTrigger drop_thing fireuser2
But I have no idea how to teleport that thing to my position. What I tried:
using point_teleport:
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent !player
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent player
Both cases didn't move the point_player so the object was dropped back were I started.
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !activator
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !player
A trigger_brush with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent player
Soo... that also didn't work
Now I tried a trigger_teleport, parented to my object. with object
OnUser2 trigger_teleport enable 0.00
OnUser2 trigger_teleport disable 0.30 with the the remote destination to a parented info_target, but this does absolutely nothing.
Anyone suggestions?
Try using point_teleport instead of triggers.
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I tried point_teleport and that teleported my entity properly.
The only problem was that for some reason my point_teleport wouldn't parent to the player.
The ways I tried were:
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent !player
Logic auto, onmapspawn point_teleport setparent player
A trigger_once with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !activator
A trigger_once with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent !player
A trigger_once with onStarttouch point_teleport, SetParent player
I'm actually doing something remotely similar, in which a cube and the player switch places on a button press. If I'm not mistaken, point_teleport cannot be parented. To "teleport" the cube, I actually make the cube silentdissolve, then respawn it at the player's position using a point_template and an env_entity_maker.
It's a little bit more complicated than that since certain entities have to be left behind by both the player and the cube prior to the teleports, but that's the basic idea: try a point_template and env_entity_maker. The only issue, however, is that the point_template seems to remember the cube's state only from when it first spawned. So if it gets painted, the paint will disappear after a teleport. I'm trying to work that issue out now.
A point_teleport teleports an object to a certain spot (i.e. to an info_target) from an output. I don't see why you would need to parent the point_teleport whatsoever.
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