Gantries

Ramah Palmer · Post by **Ramah Palmer** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:15 pm

Hi. Could anyone tell me the best way to make gantries like the ones in the V2 map please?
If I make the steel mesh out of a brush and add the gantry texture (can't remember the exact name) then it looks ok but bullets will not pass through it.
But the ones on V2 are only a texture thick so I assume they are made from static meshes? If so, I tried one and it looked ok but it let bullets AND nades through from one direction but nothing at all the other way.
Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

TheShiznaeSpe · Post by **TheShiznaeSpe** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:03 am

-make a brush
-apply the gantry texture to one face (the front or the back-doesn't matter)
-then texture the rest of the brush with common/nodraw
-that's all man

Ramah Palmer · Post by **Ramah Palmer** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:33 am

Thanks man, you're a star!

Ramah Palmer · Post by **Ramah Palmer** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:25 pm

Ok, now I've had time to try your answer man and it ain't exactly what I was looking for. In the V2 map you can shoot, and be shot, THROUGH the gantry. Making a gantry as I described in my original post and doing it how you just described m8 doesn't seem to allow it. Only making it out of a mesh allows bullets to pass through, and then only from one direction.
So how do I allow bullets to pass through my gantry?

Yarik · Post by **Yarik** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:32 pm

Apply the player clip texture. (in the "Common" menu).

Click textures--->Common--->player clip. I do it for the wood only. Or really really thing walls.

nuggets · Post by **nuggets** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:36 pm

each texture has a shader file, some are told to do certain things in each,

the easiest way though, if you wake the gantry a script object, and then
key: targetname
value: gantry
then in the script put
$gantry notsolid

this can be done by pressing N and selecting not solid (a lot easier), but i'm a scripter

this will make it passable by anything now, so add the player clip so it will prevent walking through it as Yarik suggested

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 5:41 am

I say you are... maby not lying to Ramah Palmer, but missleading him something grotesque...

It is a fence texture, and as such it lets bullets pass if they hit the holes in the texture... There is a prefab called "Metal staircase ( Like the ones in the V2 map )" in my download section. It uses fence textures. Steal it or just see how it works...

nuggets · Post by **nuggets** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:06 pm

so ur saying he's got a bad aim?

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 9:24 am

LOL

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