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how do I make it so that I have a beam kinda thing span from point A to point B and to pivot on point A as point B moves


Key:
------ = beam horizontal
| = beam vertical
A = point A
B = point B



Postion 1 before movement:
A-------B


Position 2 after movement is complete:
A
|
|
|
B

or maybe so that the beam shrinks as point B moves closer to Point A

1:
A-------------B

2:
A---------B

3:
A------B

4:
A--B

know what I mean?

Short answer:

In g_allclasses.html ( included in the Radiant install I believe ) you will find this about the func_beam entity:

i have the func_beam code in my entdefs if you want it.

If you are makeing a custom map all you need to do is have a func_beam target a script_origin and the end of the beam will always be at the script_origin BUT it will only work if you do it in radiant . I have found that for spawing func_beams that you have to make a while loop

while(1)
{
$mybeam endpoint ( xx xx xx )
waitframe
}

or

while(1)
{
$mybeam endpoint $my_script_origin.origin
waitframe
}

I made a clock in radiant a func_beam in the middle and also a script_origin I made a second script_origin on the outside of the clock and had the func_beam target it and I used bind to bind the outside script_origin to the inside one . I then rotated the middle script_origin so that the outside one went around in a circle . Because the fund_beam was targeting the outside script_origin the beam rotated around following the outside script_origin . I had a beam clock . I of course did this for each of the hands of the clock .

lizardkid wrote:i have the func_beam code in my entdefs if you want it.

can i get it?

I thought I had func_beam and I was about to get it and then I saw that isnt wasnt in the Func window. I was like uhhh am i forgetting something? how could it not be there?

Here is the exelent files posted by tltrude: Here it is: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/tltrude/Temp/code.zip

Expand them into main ( so the cpp files end up in main/code ) and start up Radiant... you will have a lot of new toys ( like beam under the func folder )

TOYS?!!?! I LOVE TOYS! GIMMIE! lol thnx

EDIT:
Just a few toys? HOLY CRAP! im gunna have some mad fun

Made this baby in a jiffy:

It sparkles like mad an really looks like a perfect target for a teleport destination

Here is the settings I used:


Happy happy, joy joy!

OMG OMG OMG OMG I WANNA PLAY WITH IT! man I love mapping. id prolly kill myself without it lol.

what i want to know is why did MOHAA devs not put all the Q3 toys into MOH? are they %&( inSANE?

*drools with anticipation at the thought of what his map will look like with his new toybox*

Mwahahahahahahahaha me like toys =)


lol anyway, yeah I think they ARE crazy! I mean, w/o the proper toys how can our maps be that great?! well.... they already can be but with these newer toys its even more fun

a lot more things to play with means... dada DA

A NEW FUN MAP!

must..make...must...amke... ougahhahahahaaa (say it out loud, it'll make more sense)

lol

well it looks like you can see the func beams THRU the brushes... not cool
and hwere the heck is func beam in SP?