Invisible props!

[SlimJim]

I'm making a map for CS:S and I've added some models using prop_physic or whatever it's called
(just closed Hammer, takes ages to load it up again) but some of the models doesn't show up when I test my map. Why is this so?
They obviously does exist 'couse you can collide with them and break them and the gibs show up!
I think I've read somewhere that all models aren't compitable with the prop_physic or something so I've tested different entities like prop_static (or was it physic_static? anyways) but all I've managed to show up ingame is a lousy boiler and a truck.

What is wrong?

 

[slicktick]

I have had the same problem and although I dont know if this is the real reason, I dont think some objects have physics or just properties built in, so you need to use the prop_physics_override command and then they will work, or at least they did for me.

 

[Limpet]

Check your start/end fade dist keyvalues. If you want it to show up all the time use:

Start fade: -1
End fade: 0

I ran into this before when I was moving my entity I accidentally grabed the little sphere that graphically sets those values.
Hope that helps

 

[SlimJim]

Hey thanks guys! Solved it now, turned out you were both right actually. Now I'll continue working on my first map for CS:S (cs_crappyashell or sumthin )
"...Hey good work Gordon, turning that switch and all..." I just can't stop thinking about that line :cheese: so sarcastic and still dead serious....

 

[Hick$]

check the doc out as it tells u what type of physics function to use and how many u can have in a map

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Levels/prop_types.html

 

[WaterWolf]

Also make sure your models aren't intersecting any brushes as this makes them disapear too.