Prob Easy - Physics

[sabre0001]

Ok I followed one of those tutorials and made a breakable platform with barrels on top - trouble is the barrels disappear or poss break. i clicked dont tak physics damage on each part and set the damage below which barrels shouldnt take damage to 100!!

What am i missing? This is probably an easy solution...
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[MadDog31]

By chance, what tutorial did you go off of? One over at Interlopers?

I just did this one last night and may be able to help, but not sure yet...

Ian

 

[Bossanova]

what type of prop_physics did you use on your entities?

try prop_physics_overide on your barrels. you shouldn't have to set them up to "not to take physical damage" should be default on barrels.

 

[MadDog31]

I was thinking the same thing.

I did one last night where I created a platform essentially, and I made the 2 legs on the right side breakable (wood material) and then made the platform a physbox. I sat a couple of barrels on top of that and shot away and it worked first time.

I have a side question, any reason why when I was placing a barrel in one time, they were coming out big as hell and couldn't be resized? It did that for any entity I was doing too.

Anyways, back to the orginal question, try that setup and the barrels like Boss said shouldn't need to be toyed with.

 

[sabre0001]

Still not working... The entity I was using was just click the entity tool and select a prop_physics. Then selected the model of a barrel. If you give me an e-mail address I can send you the .vmf file if you that willing to help

 

[Bossanova]

ok try this.

in your world model. use prop_physics and then world model "models/props_c17/oildrum001.mdl"

see if that works.

 

[sabre0001]

thats what ive tried

 

[Bossanova]

ok i just recompiled my map and put in some oildrums like above just to check it out. i've shot it with the magnun, blown it up with a handgrenade and blew it up with an RPG and it doesn't break. so i don't know what is wrong with your version of hammer? :sniper:

 

[sabre0001]

thanks. got it sorted...dont know what the problem was...just started up a new map...worked as i did last time and there you have it...

 

[Calm_Blue_Ocean]

The barrels do strange things if they touch or clip other objects or entities. I'm not sure if this was your problem, but be sure that the barrels are a few inches above the platform.