Ragdoll of dead combine fails to break glass.

[Faulk_Wulf]

On this roof their is a ledge with a combine stationed on it. I run up and blast him with the shotgun and he flies backward, directly over and above the window... and falls. straight. through. it. (The window is unharmed by this.) Apparently ragdolls do not effect glass... I have tried all "break on..." flags and in various cominations as well as alone. The windows health is "1" (because I feared putting a decimal in it) and the fragility is "400", and the only 'glitch' with it is if I blast it up close with the shotgun their is a short stutter in the game. (So I loaded in a pistol to test the window from then on.) And yes, I could trigger the window to break with a... well, trigger, but the ledge as well as the roof is open-ended. -Most often- you'll shoot the combine so he falls through the glass, but then again, you may not and it would look stupid if you shot him and a window that he's NEXT to randomly shatters. Any ideas on what I'm missing here?

 

[peoplesuc]

The glass entites do break from ragdoll characters. I made a room with Alyx infront of 6 panes of glass and I set 'phys_timescale' to '0'. Then I shot her dozens of times with the shotgun. Then I set 'phys_timescale' to '0.2' and watched her fly backwards through the glasses. The most she ever broke was 3. My suggestion is to change the characters weight some how(if possible) after he dies or make the drop a lot steeper. That way I think the character will gain enough force to break the glass ceiling.

For the record I'm new to map making and my advice comes with no warrenty. hehe

 

[Fender357]

Can you set a trigger so that when the NPC passes through it, it will break the glass?

I'm pretty much asking if this is posible because I don't know .

But keep messing with stuff to see if you can make it happen naturaly without triggers.

 

[JMan]

The very last parameter of the func_breakable is the one you need, set this to a high enough value and falling items will break your glass.
For example 10 was enough for the small filing cabinet to break it with a drop of 128 and 40 was enough for the combine soldier to break it.