Quote from josepezdj on April 6, 2014, 9:43 am

First off, I guess that you placed the info_placement_helper with its red orientation line pointing outwards from the panel, right?

Then, you should make sure that your info_placement_helper has its both properties 'Use helper's angles' and 'Force Placement' set to YES.

And remember to use a wide enough radius that surrounds the entire panel, and I mean each single bit (watch out on the squares).

And finally, I'd suggest you to parent it to the panel so it is always where the panel is; so you should need to place it right on the surface of the panel's brush where it is spawned at first. Once the panel moves those 64 units from the wall, the helper will follow it up.

Quote from Konke on April 6, 2014, 2:35 pm

josepezdj wrote:

First off, I guess that you placed the info_placement_helper with its red orientation line pointing outwards from the panel, right?

Then, you should make sure that your info_placement_helper has its both properties 'Use helper's angles' and 'Force Placement' set to YES.

And remember to use a wide enough radius that surrounds the entire panel, and I mean each single bit (watch out on the squares).

And finally, I'd suggest you to parent it to the panel so it is always where the panel is; so you should need to place it right on the surface of the panel's brush where it is spawned at first. Once the panel moves those 64 units from the wall, the helper will follow it up.

Yes, yes and yes. Thanks for the reply but sadly none of the advice did work. What I didn't do before was to parent it, I just placed it in the correct spot where the panel would end. This time I parented the info_placement_helper to the func_door. No luck so far...

Quote from Crawfish on April 6, 2014, 11:25 pm

Is the info_placement_helper just in front of the panel, or in it? When I use them, I usually make is so they're perfectly halfway sunken into the surface I put them on. I've never tried them otherwise, but this has always worked for me.

Quote from CamBen on April 6, 2014, 11:48 pm

Crawfish wrote:

Is the info_placement_helper just in front of the panel, or in it? When I use them, I usually make is so they're perfectly halfway sunken into the surface I put them on. I've never tried them otherwise, but this has always worked for me.

Huh, i always place them one unit away from the surface.

Quote from josepezdj on April 7, 2014, 1:27 am

Konke wrote:

I just placed it in the correct spot where the panel would end

I think that you are doing it wrongly. Not in the spot where the panel would end (this way if it is parented it will go 64 units further!), but right on the panel's surface. Please check:

Then parented to the func_brush or func_door, so when it moves the helper will be always on the same spot.

Quote from Konke on April 7, 2014, 11:09 am

Thanks for the answers. I didn't quite understand what to change. Perhaps I'll try to post a picture of my current problem.

This is my first image post on a forum, I hope it'll work:

A thing to add though is that the info_placement_helper did work when the panel was static (everything in the same place). Later on I decided to add the effect of a arm moving out of the wall. I added the func_door and had everything lined up just like before and chose Spawn Position: Open on the func_door.

Let me know if you need another screenshot!

Quote from josepezdj on April 7, 2014, 12:51 pm

Please post your .VMF

Quote from Crawfish on April 7, 2014, 1:03 pm

Can you post a higher resolution screenshot? Or, as josepezdj said, the .VMF would be helpful too.

Quote from josepezdj on April 8, 2014, 1:31 am

I've made a quick test map where the placement_helper works before and after the func_door opens/closes.

Please check it and use the same idea