Dangling Wire

[leonumber2]

I'm pretty sure there isn't a tutorial for this as I've searched extensivly.

I'm trying to make a dangling live electrical cable that hangs from a point and bounces around sparking, as seen in D1_canals_05. I'm pretty sure I've figured out the basics. They seem to have an invisible physbox attached to the end of the rope and an env_explosion to jolt the physbox, obviously the end of the rope and the env_explosion are parented to the physbox.

Still, I haven't been able to recreate it as realisticly as they have, I must be missing something, perhaps the correct magnitue and also the angle and distance of the env_explosion in relation to the physbox. Any help would be great. Thanx, Leo

 

[Icewolf717]

Im not to sure how to do that. But you could always decompile the map to see how they did it.

 

[leonumber2]

Well that was my first idea but it seems decompiling is very taboo, of course I wouldn't be copying or stealing anything, any ideas on a good decompiler?

 

[Yorick]

nah, decompiling for something like that is the best way to go. You're not stealing anything and it's always good to be able to see how the pros do it.

 

[63]

nah, decompiling for something like that is the best way to go. You're not stealing anything and it's always good to be able to see how the pros do it.

I agree. Decompiling is fine for something like this, you're not stealing, just trying to learn. Google for VMEX.

 

[leonumber2]

I'm installing everything now, should be able to see it in a few mins, thanks for the help guys, hopefully I can make sense of Valves work.

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[leonumber2]

Well I isolated all the relevant parts and it's actually exactly as I imagined, all I was missing was the correct env_explosion angles and magnitudes, and also some physics constraints to stop the wire flying around like crazy. Thanks for the advice!

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