Dynamic Monitor Props

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#1

Hey! It’s me, again. I know i’m gonna ask too much things since i’m learner. Sorry about that, i’m asking what i cannot find by googling hard.

I want some working PC Monitor Props in my map, but not like cameras to monitor some part of map. I want them to play some random videos like scripted SFM scenes and/or some gif screensavers i created.

Don’t know about gif’s and videos but i think using a tiny decal on a monitor will do the static vision thing. Not sure if there’s a better way to do it.

Thanks, peace ^^

#2

maybe you could make an ani9mated texture/decal of the video “a short sequence” and then either make it a custom teure to replace one of the monitors textures or put a thin brush just infront of the monitor with the texture on that ,https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/tutorials/how-to-create-an-animated-texture a little info on how to do it

#3

There’s really two ways to do this- one is with animated textures, which can be created using VTFEdit, the other is by setting up a “play” of what you want to display in some box outside of the explorable section of your map and using cameras to display it.

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