Messing with gravity

[CypherLou]

Is there an entity for reducing gravity or inverting it, to create effects like the giant fan from HL1?

 

[CypherLou]

trigger_vphysics_motion

Note to self: homework first, questions later.

 

[Dead-Inside]

Good shit, only took you 10 minutes too

 

[rae]

I've been trying to make a map with no gravity... fiddled for hours to no avail...

Could you please explain to me how that command works?

 

[giant384]

y would anyone want to play without gravity mabye alittle gravity but not 0

 

[WAR_Nuker]

yeah if it is at 0 gravity you will not fall at all....and you will be stuck slightly off the ground, only able to slowly hover around the map. make it 100 or 50....that is a lot better. hmmm it just occured to me i might not have answered your question at all. the console command in-game is sv_gravity # where the default is 600 in DM and i think 800 in CS. i have no damn clue how to set that in hammer and save it to the map.

 

[rae]

giant... I want zero gravity because this mod is set in space... and hopefully you should no there is no gravity out there

Nuker, thanks I thought it would be something like that... but I can't find a console command sheet (very annoying trying to remember a lot of them)

 

[WAR_Nuker]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/hints.html lotsa cool ones there. http://www.cheatplanet.com/pccheats/half-life_2.htm there too

 

[giant384]

ok i c ur point but how could u move if its zero gravity and u have no way of propelling urself anywhere if its in space

 

[WAR_Nuker]

thats what im sayin....itd be realistic, but kind of difficult in terms of gaming.

 

[giant384]

and how is this fun????

 

[Dead-Inside]

You can make custom thrusters of kinds. But moving around BY YOURSELF sucks ass, you must see this?

 

[rae]

Yes I do, that's why your in space ships with thrusters, using the thrusters to move around :E . (I should of explained it more in my first post) and thanks Nuker, they'll come in handy!

 

[Raeven0]

...Did I miss the part where the fairly obvious trigger_gravity was mentioned?

Trigger_vphysics_motion looks like the very thing so many of us have been searching for, though. The capacity to change a prop's gravity without reloading the map! Incredible!

 

[rae]

I know, Cypher said that... I only asked for a more detailed explanation of how the command worked...

 

[Raeven0]

That would be an entity, not a command. My entire second paragraph was devoted to praising him for pointing out trigger_vphysics_motion

 

[rae]

Oh... could be why I haven't been able to find it!

Could you please explain how this entity works? does it make the entire map a certain strength of gravity, or only a portioned part?

 

[Raeven0]

Did you know that Hammer has a nifty "Help" button in the entity properties dialogue box that, most of the time, provides useful information on the use of the entity in question? (Though, I must say, all too often it's not very helpful at all... but as self-recruited FGD Nazi, I guess it's my responsibility to fix that, isn't it? Argh!)

A player (players only; no physics objects) who touches a trigger_gravity will have his personal gravity scaled according to the trigger_gravity's "Gravity" property (2 means the player is twice as heavy, 0.25 one-fourth as heavy, etc.). In order to return to normal gravity, even after respawning, the player must pass through a trigger_gravity with a Gravity of 1.

I haven't messed with trigger_vphysics_motion, since I only learned of its existence about half an hour ago, but I'm willing to bet it works the same way, but for physics objects rather than players.

 

[rae]

Thanks very much! and the 'help' button in hammer really should be renamed the 'hinderance' button as I can't find any info on what I want to know.

 

[Raeven0]

Then you ought to make a list of what you want to know about so that Those Who Know can assist

[I wonder if I could make the FGD so useful in itself as to render 90% of all HL2 editing sites superfluous and unneeded. I think that will be my summer project. ]