Half-Life BSP - Transparent Brush that only blocks players.

[Team Xlink]

Hello.


I was wondering how I could create a brush that the player can see through, and it blocks the player from going through, but only the player, I still need rockets bullets and every other object to be able to go through it.

How would I go about doing this, for Half-Life BSP?

Thank you.

[Eluan]

Don't know if there is something already in place for doing this, but you can look at the engine code, in SV_ClipToLinks, world.c. Use the FL_MONSTERCLIP flag as an example.

[Lardarse]

I don't know how you'd backport "playerclip" into BSP29/BSP30. I'd want to ask why, though.

There is, however, a rather tricky to set up hack involving the .owner field. It might be detailed in the mapping tricks thread over at func_.

[Spike]

find the texture named 'clip'. make a brush with that texture. put it where you want to block... job done. enjoy.
depends on the toolchain, but I doubt valve changed that part, as its useful for corners and stuff

[frag.machine]

find the texture named 'clip'. make a brush with that texture. put it where you want to block... job done. enjoy.
depends on the toolchain, but I doubt valve changed that part, as its useful for corners and stuff

That's what I thought when I first read the request... "it's exactly how 'clip' brushes behave" except for the "any other entity" part (AFAIK monster, bullets and other game entities won't cross it either).

[Spike]

well, bullets would.
monsters would not.

[Team Xlink]

I tried that but Zoners compile tools give me this error:

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Error: Entity 28 has no visible brushes

Error: No visibile brushes
Description: All brushes are CLIP or ORIGIN (at least one must be normal/visible)
Howto Fix: self explanitory

Then when I make one visible it says this:

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Error: Entity 28, Brush 0: mixed face contents
    Texture CLIP and CLIP
Error: Entity 28, Brush 0: mixed face contents
    Texture CLIP and CLIP
Error: Entity 28, Brush 0: mixed face contents
    Texture CLIP and CLIP

Its like a never ending loop, am I missing something?

[Spike]

a brush, not an entity. part of the world.

[Team Xlink]

Yeah I just found out I can't tie a brush to a func_wall and use the clip brush, thank you for the help everyone.

[Eluan]

True, in a multiplayer mod clip brushes would be enough, probably players will be the only ents to not use hull 0. I overreacted in my first reply, heh.