How to create rotating doors?

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When I suggested hipnotic, I just meant use the code for the "rotate_object" but make it solid, rather than using the pusher walls and that stuff.


contains three example maps. The gateway - before copy is just for reference, it shows how the map looks before the files are split. Note that for the door_001 map, all of the brushes have been moved to world, so that it would compile. Compile the door_001 and the gateway map and load the latter. The only change to the code you need to make it to add

precache_model (self.model);
above
setmodel (self, self.model);

in the spawn function.

If you ever figure out how to make origin brushes work you won't have to do the seperated files, but bear in mind you also need the compiler to support origin brushes. You may also need a texture called origin in your wad - although it doesn't matter what the texture looks like, it might matter if it's absent.
Hipnotic has another way of resetting the origin, which is built into the compilers and is a huge hack. If you want to do things that way, then you'll need to obey their naming conventions. In fact, the best way to do that is to practice a few times by making maps for the hipnotic mod, without changing any of the code. Once you've got your head around the map compiling side, you can start to adapt the code, make brushes solid etc.

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To do this make a brush that you want as your door, then make another brush where you want the hinge of the door to be. This second brush you should apply the "origin" texture. If you're using Worldcraft you may have to make a texture called origin and add it to a .wad. (However I wrote this tutorial with q3bsp in mind, where the origin texture is found in the 'common' folder.).

Now with both of your brushes selected, Tie to Entity and rename the entity's classname to func_door_rotating. However on top of this I wrote that tutorial about a year ago and didn't have the code to fully understand the player's origin relevant to the door and choosing sides, so I documented the 'setpointdoor' key you can add to the door, to decide which way it swings.




example in gtkradiant:



edit:

I remember the Quake map format not supporting origin brushes, they however are supported in Half-life1, and Quake3 bsp formats which Darkplaces supports.

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