ladders

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:41 pm

I have followed the tutorial to making ladders and i have not got anywhere

. i have made a ladder like u said and i cant climb it or anything so i deleted it i really need a ladder on this map

.

Hope someone can help me on this(im using mohradient).

MooL

At0miC · Post by **At0miC** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:03 pm

What did you do then mate?

Build a ladder out of brushes. Then make a single brush, let's call this a 'plate', just in front of the ladder with the same high as the ladder (like in the image). Give the plate a ladder texture (you can find it under textures/common/). Then highlight this plate, hit N, make it func_ladder and give it a value for the direction. That's all.

This image will explain you how to make a working ladder.

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:09 pm

check your angle value....
notice according to the value 'keys' in the bottom right, you want to select the one your player entity would have to face (face the pole, ladder.....)

edit: dammit atomic, beat me again....

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:05 pm

Seems like I use to make my ladders just using the origion texture but heres a good tut /t.php?id=39

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:21 pm

thanx for the replies and help btw and lets see if i can get this ladder going

. ill tell u how im egtting on LoL

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:40 pm

this now what the ladder looks like and now its invisable in game and i cant climb it LoL.(my other ladders which didnt work never looked like this)

[img=http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/112/ladder3jk.th.jpg]

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:43 pm

MooL wrote:this now what the ladder looks like and now its invisable in game and i cant climb it LoL.(my other ladders which didnt work never looked like this)

[img=http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/112/ladder3jk.th.jpg]

thanks for the good laugh. make your actual ladder out of textured brushes (don't texture with common/ladder, texture with whatever texture you want players to see) and then surround the ladder brushes with a single brush (usually 16u away from all sides except the ''back'', 16u also from top is good) highlight this brush, texture with common/ladder, right click and click on func_ladder. asign your key & value

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:26 pm

Could someone make a ladder? and post it here so i can see how they have made it cos these ladders are really annoying to do

Thanx a lot.

MooL

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:43 pm

PKM...lol that was funny.
Try this tut: http://users.1st.net/kimberly/Tutorial/ladder.htm

Imagination · Post by **Imagination** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:05 pm

I will attempt to explain the ladder making process the best way I can:

Initially construct your ladder:

Next texture your ladder to your satisfaction and then create a brush like the next picture and texture it with comon/ladder, overlap the ladder itself by a fair margin in width,height and depth as the next pic shows, then select your new brush (with the comon/ladder texture) and right click and select "function ladder"

now you should press "N" button - the entity button which will bring up a new menu offering possible angles for this ladder, now this is vital as to whether your ladder works or not.
In your top screen of radiant after your ladder brush is selected and you have pressed "N" you should see a set of possible angles you can select and hopefuly the next picture should help you select the correct value:

Hopefuly this will point you in the right direction and good luck in the future.

Green Beret · Post by **Green Beret** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:32 am

Your ladders should look like the second pic, In your pic, Your brush is invisble because of the texture you put on it,
Im guessing some kind of caulk

Nice lil tut Imagination, Follow Imaginations tut and you should be fine

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:21 am

WOW Imagination thanx for that seems to be the easeist tut ive followed.
and that last one doas that show me the angles of what the ladder could be?

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:35 am

here are 2 pics of what it looks like in mohradient and in game. it didnt work i couldnt climb it.

[img=http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5412/ladder27bf.th.jpg]

[img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8627/ladder32tf.th.jpg]

hope someone can teach how to get these annoting ladders to work

neillomax · Post by **neillomax** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:25 pm

Don't overlap the ladder.

Pull the "ladder brush" so it's about 2 units... AWAY FROM... the ladder itself. Also make it about 4 units thick.

Also make the "ladder brush" about 12 units taller than the ladder or you won't be able to climb all the way up.

Work with the angles a little to get it to work.......

MooL · Post by **MooL** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:28 pm

Ok u have defently lost me now

. i dont understan what u are saying