How to make a Respawning Breakable Glass Window
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a Respawning Breakable Window
Step 1:First make a simple room with a light and an info player start then add a gun to have something to break the window with.Then make a window frame like this:
Step 2:Make a window in the frame
and texture it with the bright glass texture.Tie to the window to entity func_button.
To make the glass transparent set:
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rendermode
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texture |
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fx amount
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50 |
Ok to make the button do what we want,set:
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angle
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up | So the window slides up into the wall |
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speed
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5000 | We want it to go up instantly |
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targeted object
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br1 | We'll get to this in a minute |
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health
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50 | We want the button to activate if shot |
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lip
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-10 | We want it to move all the way into the wall |
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delay before reset
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30 | We want it to respawn after 30 seconds to test.In a game maybe 1 or 2 minutes. |
Step 3:ok now add 4 env shooters spaced out around the window.This is what will make the breaking glass and sound.Like this:
With these properties:
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name
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br1 | these are the targeted objects of the button.When the button is triggered it will pop up and these will shoot broken glass |
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number of gibs
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10 | we want to shoot enough glass to make it seem like the window broke |
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gib life
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20 | We want them to disappear just a couple seconds before the glass pops back down |
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render mode
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texture | we want to make the gibs glass |
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fx amount
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100 | If we make them 50 you wont really be able to see them |
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model
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models/glassgibs.mdl | glass gibs model from the pak file |
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material sound
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glass | we want to have the breaking glass sound |
In the flags be sure and check repeatable so we can reuse them.you should have a map that looks like this:
Additional Notes
When you compile it there will be a wall with a respawning breakable glass window.One thing that you might take into consideration is that the lighting will stay as if the glass is still there.So you may want to make the lighting the same on both sides of the wall.