ok... this is too confusing for me to do... so could someone help me out?

ok, i want a cow to act like a mortar. i want the cow to, when pressed, fly into the air (if possible), have a sound play (the "fetchez la vache" sound from monty python and the holy grail :-P) then, have the cow (again, if possible) fall out of the sky onto a small area and kill anyone who is there... if you cant make the cow fly up, or fall down, then just have them dissapear or something...

Well,

You could make the cow stand on a surface wich you could tie to the func_train entity and then arrange a path of train_track's to act like a ballistic and then trigger a func_explosion with a magnitude of 400 or so...

It's a whole lot of entitywork for a beginner though :rolleyes:

Maybe a func_shooter would work?

Great idea though :D

succes

would the model move with the func_train? if so il get my friend to show how to do that... i never really thought of that... thanks! il try it tonight

Sounds like brutal lag to me. Unless you make an animation for the model the effect would probably look really hoakey.

there's a {cow texture in the flugplatz wad, make your func_train look like a cow, then plot its course, or
moveswith doesnt work anymore, but maybe an env_shooter would shoot a cow model, i dunno, try it and see

lol... i likethe env_shooter idea... but wouldnt the model fall back down to the ground?

ok, so i made the shooter... but i cant get it to go upwards!!! i fires staright out, and goes all the way around the map! help

Set the angle to 'up' instead of pointing it in a horizontal direction. I'm not sure though if it 'll work since I'm not really familliar with the func_shooter but you could give it a try. :)

If all of this won't work you could maybe just trigger the cow to disappear and then trigger another cow to render and fall from a height a few moments later. Tie a cool sprite to it like half-life's original alien-spawn sprite and add a funny sound to the falling cow :D


meeeuuuuuuUUUHHH... SPLAT/BOOM!

lol tomato... ur a funny guy.

unfortunatly the circle things dont work... i point the arrow where i need it, and it just goes back to whatever it was before i changed it, so i need to set the XYZ coordiantes on my own. i think i just need to set Y to -90... il try it and let you guys know how it worked

as for the sounds... im doin that anyway :-P

ok, so that worked... but they fall back down!!! how do i avoid that? unless i can make the cow go un such an angle that it lands PERFECTLY in the crater... that would be cool... and not look as corny

can i make the triggers go from a timer? like when i push a button, the cow flys, 2 seconds later the crater explodes

Yes, use the nonbrush entity func_delay and tie it to the trigger that's set on making the cow fly.

So when you trigger the trigger that triggers the cow, it triggers the func_delay to (wich -of course must have the same name as the cow) triggers the crates to explode 2 sec's later. lol.

Personally I'd go for the perfect angle, that looks way better ;)

god that was confusing tomato! but i think i got it... the angle is gonna be tough... like playing scorched earth! lol thatle be fun scortched earth dod... lol this is gonna take about an hour...

EDIT: i cant find func_delay

Sorry, I ment a trigger_delay :o

ahh ok... haircut missed that in his FGD file...

ok.. now comes the harder part... i need this list of things to happen:

Press:
func_button

Triggers:
Catapult fires
Cow fires

3 Seconds Later:
mortar field goes off

can someone give me a list of the ents needed, and what i need to set stuff to? or at least the first part?

button triggers multimanager

multimanager triggers everything else in whatever order at whatever intervals you want

goto 'smart-edit' in your multimanger
then hit 'add'
put in (names are just for example)

targetname cowmulti
catapult 0
cow-shooter 0.2
mortarboom 3

dude you are a god (so are you tomato, and everyone else who helped)... thank you

I didn't miss anything.

I've never heard of a trigger_delay or func_delay


Try using the delay property in trigger_relay though ;)

ahhh, ok, well turns out i didnt even need it, greenhorns way worked out fine.. now need to spend another hour geting the timing perfect...

yup, the multi_manager is the way to go, all triggered entities in one easy place to see.

Try using the delay property in trigger_relay though

Aaah, crap. Sorry but I wrote it away from Hammer so I coulnd't check right away. I was close though...

;)

Yeah, Haircut rox anyway ;)