The Potato
I am making a map, and am wondering, which instance puts in the portal gun? Is it the elevator base, logic or the transitions? I need to edit it so there is no potato.
thanks
It's the transitions.
Msleeper posted somewhere a modified one where I believe you can change the state of the portalgun. Check the instances sticky thread.
Msleeper posted somewhere a modified one where I believe you can change the state of the portalgun. Check the instances sticky thread.
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I'm using msleeper's instance together with turbine_elevator/arrival_elevator_a4_(base|logic).vmf, but I still spawn with the potato gun. I've looked inside the instance and there is indeed a logic_auto which calls give_portalgun and upgrade_portalgun, but I still get the potatogun. I tried switching arrival_elevator_a4_logic to just arrival_elevator_logic, like in sp_good_enough_for_science, but I still spawn with potato gun. Is there something I have to do so that I don't get the potatogun?
The arrival/departure elevator base and arrival/departure logic instances have nothing to do with spawning the potato gun. Are you sure that you are using my modified transition_ents instance? Are you sure you don't still have the original one there?
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ok, maybe I am the dumbest moron who ever lived, because I just can't figure out how to spawn in the elevator without the portal gun. I'm a newbie into this wonderful (and quite terrifying) world of sdk's. I really searched the net for an answer, but couldn't find it. I'm using the modified transition_ents msleeper made, and it actually removed the potato. But, I ask you, is there a way to spawn in the elevator without the portal gun?
You will have to edit the modified transition_ents to remove the outputs to the point_clientcommand entity. That is what gives the portalgun.
I am going to make another version of the transition_ents that is much more configurable for users, and give you options to do these things.
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Alternatively you can use a considerably less-clean method to just strip off the Potatogun and give you a freshly upgraded one.
You'd add a 'player_weapon_strip' and give it a name like 'portalgun_stripper' and then you can add a new logic_auto to your map with three outputs:
OnMapSpawn -> portalgun_stripper -> Strip (0.05)
OnMapSpawn -> @command -> Command -> give_portalgun (0.10)
OnMapSpawn -> @command -> Command -> upgrade_portalgun (0.15)
'@command' is point_clientcommand entity that's added to your map with, I think, the standard transition_ents (or possibly the global_ents? I forget offhand right now). If you have the appropriate instance in your map you never have to create your own point_clientcommand and can just fire everything directly to @command.
Anywho, this would potentially give you finer control if you wanted to just give the player the 'blue-only' gun (you'd just leave off the last 'upgrade_portalgun') but it's a total hack-y workaround. A fully configurable transition_ents with booleans for the different portal upgrade 'levels' would be much better.
I was actually going to set one of these up later tonight but if you're already on it msleeper, I'll just wait for yours. 
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