animated doors | Quadropolis

steve_e | 2008-01-11 05:25

animated doors

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Blurb 2 animated doors - one a folding cage door and the other a swinging heavy door

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Detailed description

A couple of animated doors (again using Blender and Photoshop):

1. the cagedoor is a folding and rising cage type door in four sizes (see the install notes).

This is very much in alpha phase as there are texture glitches. I have only used this in dark environments but realise there is glitching in high light levels. I really spent no time UV mapping this texture.

2. the greydoor is a swinging door that opens after the handle turns counter clockwise (in two sizes - see below).

This is a beta release I suppose - I could be more clever combining the UV textures into one file, but whether there would be a real benefit in doing that I don't know...

Install instructions:

Unzip contents to the Sauer folder - it should get placed correctly on this path:
packages/models/steve_e/doors/...

for the map .cfg (or however you intend to place it):
mapmodelreset
mmodel "steve_e/doors/cagedoor" //4x5 sized cagedoor
mmodel "steve_e/doors/cagedoor/cagedoor_75" //3x4ish sized cagedoor
mmodel "steve_e/doors/cagedoor/cagedoor_150" //6x8ish sized cagedoor
mmodel "steve_e/doors/cagedoor/cagedoor_200" //8x10 sized cagedoor
mmodel "steve_e/doors/greydoor //4x6 sized greydoor
mmodel "steve_e/doors/greydoor/greydoor_150 //6x8 sized greydoor

Make certain you are in SP mode, place the door and set it to type 10 (auto open) and check them out.

Mod file steve_e_doors.zip (639.28 KB)

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Comments

Titanic12ship | 2008-01-13 02:07

Great! I was looking for one of these doors for a jail level I was working on. I could really use the bars door. Thanks!

MeatROme | 2008-01-13 05:45

Mmmh. I've caught myself a couple of times wishing for a trapdoor;
something horizontal ...
imagine all the fun traps one could build for the player with rooms suddenly dropping monsters from the ceiling etc.

steve_e | 2008-01-13 09:30

You know, I think a trap door was one of the first reasons I thought about creating my own models, yet it slipped my mind after doing a few other things.

Here is a rough trap door concept - texturing needs a lot of work: trapdoor.zip

It should unpack to:
packages/models/steve_e/doors/trapdoor

the read_me has more details. See what you think.

MeatROme | 2008-01-13 15:33

P. E. R. F. E. C. T. :)
Well ... apart from the engine dropping the bounding-box too late which often makes even the regular doors appear open yet still stopping either you or your rockets from passing through; in this case you've got quite a bit of time hanging in thin air - but that's not the issue of the modeler, it's one for the code designers - so : go ahead and add it to this node, or even give it it's own node ... this trapdoor should definitely be in the official set of models IMHO!

Quin | 2008-01-14 17:32

That was fixed recently in CVS, delay was dropped from 1000ms to 500ms.

MeatROme | 2008-01-14 17:50

I know, I nudged eihrul ... and mere seconds later the CIA-bot told me my wish had come true.
That man is a non-stop coding machine :)

Titanic12ship | 2008-03-27 18:24

How exactly do you place these doors? I put the folder into the models folder and copied the text into the config, but I don't know how to load them in the game.

MeatROme | 2008-03-27 20:47

You've been in the community quite a while now Titanic12Ship ... what do you think the answer is? RTFM? Right!
triggers/mapmodels ...
Now - how exactly you go about this is your own job to find out ... because in Sauerbraten there are just too many ways to skin whatever cat you find :-P
I usually do it something like this - I use the menu to place a door of the required type .. e.g. open-close or locked or whatever;
I don't care about the model the menu picks for me!
Then I grab myself that new entity and set the argument #2 (the one for the model to use) to higher numbers until I've found the last valid one (e.g. it was 23 ... then I set it to 73 - oh, a "whatever", ... 123, ah empty).

If you do a mapmodelreset in your map's CFG and the load the new ones, the index to use will be 0, 1, 2, ... but since I never can remember how many actual models the current release is loading, I guess you'll just have to try it out a bit.

Select the entity, hit "." (the dot key) and modify away.
HTH

Oh. PS.: I don't want your next map you announce on the Cube-Forum and post on your google-page to be littered with models though - use them sparsely !! - exceeding this "vague" limit will only result in a slow map .. rendering all those models will slow down any client to crawl, ..., just so you can't say I didn't warn you :-P

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