This tutorial shows you how to make an elevator, using the door function.

The only exception is, using the door function, you can only have two floors:

Downstairs and upstairs.

So let’s start!

Make an area with two buildings. We’re going to make an elevator between these buildings.

Now apply a ‘Common->Clip’ texture against the wall as high as you want your elevator to go.

You can use other textures too, but I know the clip texture works, so we use that one, allright?

Something I do know is that the ‘Origin’ texture DOES NOT work.

And now the fun stuff! Making your elevator! You can make everything you wish!

I just made a simple floor.

Now select your entire elevator and the ‘Clip’ texture and give them a ‘func->door’

(Right-click in your editor -> func -> door).

Now open your entity window (Press ‘N’) and fill out the following stuff (key/Value):

Angle/ -1 (Tells the elevator to go up.)

Wait/ 3 (This tells the elevator to wait 3 seconds till it goes down. You may want to change this.)

Targetname/ elevator (This one is necessary for the trigger.)

Spawnflags/ 128 (Or click on ‘Targeted’.)

Now make two stick-like brushes (see picture), and make them look like activation panels.

Give them a nice texture. Put one in the top and one on the ground.

Now make a ‘Trigger -> Use’ at the top of your stick-like brush, at both of them.

with both triggers selected press ‘N’ and type this key/value:

target/elevator

Now compile your map and test it!

You can only activate the elevator with the triggers.

If you don’t want that, just remove the Spawnflags/ 128.