tools/toolsblockbullets doesn't block bullets

[Hossy]

I have created an unbreakable pane of glass that is 5 deep (glass textured on one side, brick on the other -- like a one-way window).

The problem I'm having is with the thickness (or lack thereof), bullets go through it. So I drew in a block with the tools/toolsblockbullets texture and put the block inside the glass func_breakable entity. The block is 1 thick. I can still shoot through the glass. :sniper:

HOWEVER, if I render the map WITHOUT the glass and leave the tools/toolsblockbullets, bullets are stopped.

 

[Flippage]

Put the toolsblockbullets just in front of the pane of glass, on either side

 

[Stigmata]

Wouldn't that stop the bullets just before they hit the window? That would look weird, to say the least. Firing at a window and getting no bullet marks or anything.

 

[Hossy]

that's what I was thinking....I tried putting it on either side, and of course, it causes bullet holes to not appear on one side of the glass

 

[MI77]

You could have two panes of glass with a bullet blocker in the middle?

Double glazing!

 

[Hossy]

ya, i thought of that...but then it would LOOK like two panes of glass

I ended up settling for making the glass 16 thick....that stopped the bullets :-(

 

[Flippage]

what if you make the glass, 1 unit thick, then a 1 unit thick blockbullets, then another 1 unit thick glass.

Probably shouldnt notice the two panes.

I would think that 16 thickness would look worse than no bullet marks, but ok. Whatever.

 

[Hossy]

thx flippage....that's what I ended up doing because I also had a light leak and is was annoying me so I put an extra 1 unit thick block light brush in the same position as the block bullets

 

[PvtRyan]

Another thing you could do: tie an entity to the brush, like func_wall, maybe it will work then because the bullet blocker isn't inside a brush anymore but in an entity. Very speculative, but it might work.