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Finally a broken window tut on .map

But I am missing several infos in it that were discussed in this post.
You should make it a little longer and tell people about e.g. copying windows.
Why do you write health (100-150)? I'm almost always using a health-value of 1, because I want to shoot people through intact windows not having to shoot the window first and draw all attention on the breaking window (and me behind it)

I mean 100-150 if you want your window to be shot more than normal times.

yeah, that's right. It just looked as if lower values wouldn't be accepted by the engine.

Yeah, but I stated this in the tut. Anyway, you want to me to write that duplicating the windows will work? Ok.....

Which tells me that my English is still worse than I thought...
About copying, I just think, someone who needs this tut will be glad to read that copying func_window/scriptobject-pairs makes the key target(name) count up automatically from t01, t02 up. This seemed to be unfamiliar to some in the post and saves much time.
Something else which was a little confusing for me (and my English knowledge) was about selecting textures: Beginning mapping I had some trouble with these breakable windows, because I didn't know that I MUST use textures with the SAME name but which MUST end with _frame and _broken. Maybe too obvious now...
Sometimes when copying windows the textures don't stay where they belong, so after having put those copies to their new place, one should always press CTRL+F to make them fit again. Isn't much work and there isn't this frustration after having compiled the map and find them wrong...

Ok, cool. I'll post a link to this page from the tut site.

Ok ... I am a mapping noob for sure, but I still got the whole window breaking thing to work.

How do I make the glas transparent though? It breaks and all that good stuff but it always black and opaque.

Maybe use the correct textures. Make sure the shader file is not corrupted.

Also make sure you use the common/nodraw texture on all except for two sides.

But I didn't use the nodraw in my tut and it worked fine.

Ok .. Here was the main prob, the textures I was using didn't allow for transparencies or whatever.

I put some new window textures on, and I was able to see through them (nothing behind, just a test room). Funny thing was that I somehow saw a reflectiong of freaking pine trees and stuff.

This has something to do with shaders I know (Im a noob), but I guess my question is how do I just make a normal transparent window. No reflections, just being able to see through it.

theses pines are on one window-texture, others are different. try using other window-textures, but remember they must end with _frame and _broken. if you didn' find any that you like (wrong reflection + good frames or vice versa) you must write a new shader for new windows and mix up the things you like!

mmm ... sounds like fun!

Where can I find such a tut?

In the tutorial page.

I dont see where though ... nothing about creating/editing shaders, not even in advanced texturing.