These Doors

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#1

Investigators examining the wreckage of a helicopter…

No, but really. Lately, I’ve been getting into mapping in Hammer, and I’ve hit a few obstacles. Mostly that FRIGGIN VERTEX ERROR JDGJSGJDESGS but also… doors.

See, I have no idea how big they’re supposed to be. What’s the texture resize scale I should use? I could use generic/door_locked as a guide, but that doesn’t seem right.

How tall and wide are they in Hammer units? Are they of varying sizes? What do I do about that trim? This would be a lot easier if I had access to the BMS .vmf files.

So that is my plight. I cannot into door, halp pls. Also, how do I make a decent-looking rounded outer corner without the vertex editor eating itself?

#2

According to hammer, these types of doors are 56 units wide and 108 units high. I’m assuming that, like most textures in BM, the doors use a texture scale of .25, and if they don’t then they aren’t far off.

If you’re looking to make an openable door, then the doors are also 4 units thick, and I believe you will be able to get away with texturing the side of the door with the door texture, rotated 90 degrees. Use whatever combination of func_brushes and func_doors you need to achieve what you want.

#3

Thanks! However, take a look. I built an object according to your specs, then applied the texture and…

https://prntscr.com/3h586l

#4

Using fit under justify on the face edit menuwill fix that.

#5

Thanks, that worked!

Does anyone know what the texture is on that trim around the door?

#6

It varies from area to area, but in your screenshot it’s the bottom of one of the lab\lab_metalwall set.

#7

Are you sure? I can’t find it on any of the three textures. Here’s Crafty Object Viewer’s perspective:

https://prntscr.com/3hdc5b

#8

Yes, I’m sure. It is the very bottom of the lab_metalwall02 set. These guys used their textures nicely.

1346×686 256 KB

#9

Oh, that one. Thanks!

#10

You just need to practice, really. Find out what techniques work for you, and familiarize yourself with the rules of valid and invalid solid geometry. Vertex manipulation can be a pain.

I usually create a cylinder brush or two as a base guideline and then clip+vertex edit a number of rectangular/triangular solids to fit, depending on what shape I need, then scale the setup to size if it’s too big or small.

#11

^That. Triangles are you friend.

#12

Sorry to bump my own thread, but I have another persistent problem and starting a new thread seems a bit wasteful. None of the computer monitors show up in-game. All of the other computer parts do - tower, mouse, keyboard - but not the monitors. I’ve had them set as physics, static, and dynamic, and nothing works. It might have something to do with animation - the QE wall monitors don’t show up either.

#13

That’s weird. Try one of the prop_x_override entities?
Also check that it’s not stuck in the world or another prop entity.

#14

Prop_physics_override worked. Thanks!

#15

I don’t see why they need to be override props. That’s odd… :confused:

#16

I actually had an issue like that with one of the crate models. I’m still not sure why it happened, but it did happen once and never again.

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