blades and puncture launcher

[swiss_cheese9797]

Hi, any of you guys know if it's possible to make a mechanism that throws blades or the harpoon in a desired direction and stick in the wall as they do when launched from the physgun? My goal is to make a trap for my SP mod where the player triggers a mechanism(s) that launches sharp objects that stick into the wall. Thanx

 

[mindless_moder]

ofcourse you just need to make a trigger and an event it will be kind of like the switches for the car crunchers. i havent looked through the sdk yet but it seems like a pretty simple thing to do.

 

[Some0ne]

you could make a switch which, when pressed, would trigger a prop_dynamic to do its animation of shooting the object or whatever and the object could then be 'launched' by some other entity which i have forgotten the name of.

 

[mindless_moder]

yeah as for hte sticking to walls bit just use the same type of system that the razor blades use.

 

[swiss_cheese9797]

The only way I can use the same system as the saw blades is if I have the player use the grav gun to lanch em at himself.

Also, the car crunchers are just a pulley system, they dont really launch anything.

Heres what im trying to do. You're walkin down a hallway and the half-lfie 2 saw blades are thrown at you, boobie trap style. I need them to actually be thrown at you and stick into a wall, not just an animated model that makes it look like it is, because i want the player to be able to block em when/if he notices the trap. I just tested the sawblades pointing down and starting about 100 feet from the ground. all they did was hit the ground and bounce off. I need a way to tell the blades to stick into surfaces like when the grav gun launches it.

Thanks for all your help so far guys, still trying to solve this problem....

 

[swiss_cheese9797]

UPDATE!

I just tried to use a trigger push to send the hl2 saw blades down with enough speed to make em stick. I used a trigger push with a push speed of 20,000. It still did not work. Any ideas?


...know what? Im usually good about this but I think I meant to post this in the mapping section. sorry guys.