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Creating a rope entity

Does anyone have a script for creating a simple rope entity?

Re: Creating a rope entity

in hammer, the entity is called move_rope and is paired with a keyframe_rope. setting the move ropes next key frame to the keyframe rope. for this you would need to name both. you might want to add slack as well, the default is 25, but you can adjust it.

Re: Creating a rope entity

I did that, It didn't work.

Re: Creating a rope entity

Try editing netprops. For example spawning env_beam was a huge pain in ass.

Re: Creating a rope entity

Does anyone have a script that successfully spawns a rope?

Re: Creating a rope entity

Quote:

Originally Posted by almcaeobtac (Post 1278948)

I did that, It didn't work.

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Originally Posted by almcaeobtac (Post 1279365)

Does anyone have a script that successfully spawns a rope?

Show us the code you wrote. :3

Re: Creating a rope entity

Code:

public CreateWire(Part1, Part2)

{

        decl Float:Org1[3];

        decl Float:Org2[3];

        decl String:Origin1[128];

        decl String:Origin2[128];



        GetEntPropVector(Part1, Prop_Data, "m_vecOrigin", Org1);

        GetEntPropVector(Part2, Prop_Data, "m_vecOrigin", Org2);



        Format(Origin1, 128, "%f %f %f", Org1[0], Org1[1], Org1[2]);

        Format(Origin2, 128, "%f %f %f", Org2[0], Org2[1], Org2[2]);



        new Rope1 = CreateEntityByName("move_rope");

        new Rope2 = CreateEntityByName("keyframe_rope");



        decl String:Name1[64];

        decl String:Name2[64];

        decl String:PartName1[64];

        decl String:PartName2[64];



        Format(Name1, 64, "compwire_%d", Rope1);

        Format(Name2, 64, "compwire_%d", Rope2);

        Format(PartName1, 64, "comppart_%d", Part1);

        Format(PartName2, 64, "comppart_%d", Part2);



        DispatchKeyValue(Part1, "targetname", PartName1);

        DispatchKeyValue(Part2, "targetname", PartName2);



        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "MoveSpeed", "64");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "Slack", "25");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "Subdiv", "2");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "Width", "1");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "TextureScale", "1");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "RopeMaterial", "cable/cable.vmt");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "PositionInterpolator", "2");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "targetname", Name1);

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "NextKey", Name2);

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope1, "origin", Origin1);

        

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "MoveSpeed", "64");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "Slack", "25");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "Subdiv", "2");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "Width", "1");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "TextureScale", "1");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "RopeMaterial", "cable/cable.vmt");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "PositionInterpolator", "2");

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "targetname", Name2);

        DispatchKeyValue(Rope2, "origin", Origin2);



        DispatchSpawn(Rope1);

        DispatchSpawn(Rope2);



        //SetVariantString(PartName1);

        //AcceptEntityInput(Rope1, "SetParent");



        //SetVariantString(PartName2);

        //AcceptEntityInput(Rope2, "SetParent");



        WireEntity[1][Part1][Part2] = Rope1;

        WireEntity[2][Part1][Part2] = Rope2;

        WireEntity[1][Part2][Part1] = Rope2;

        WireEntity[2][Part2][Part1] = Rope1;



        return;

}

It wasn't working with the parenting, so I removed it to see if it would at least spawn in the right place for me. It didn't.

Re: Creating a rope entity

I've had some trouble with the origin keyvalue before try using TeleportEntity?

Re: Creating a rope entity

Check out a stripper dump first on what information exactly is in the needed entities.

Re: Creating a rope entity

Just throwing this out there, but CreateEntityByName() for move_rope and keyframe_rope may be returning an entity reference, not an index. Use EntIndexToEntRef() to solve this issue. I ran into a similar problem trying to create a filter_activator_tfteam.

To know for sure, try printing Name1 and Name2 strings.