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Okay, it's odd.. but I have a basically reciprocal (back and forth) teleporter in my current map.. and grenades seem to bounce the "wrong" way (backwards) when they fly through the teleporter.. Giving anyone firing grenades through a rude shock... cos, as they say.. "Sometimes they come back".

Has anybody else battled this? Rockets seem to work fine.

It happens when teleport's destination is too close to the back tele or some walls are too close to tele_dest, so the grenades bounce on them and go back to tele.

what about the push value? if you set that higher will they go further?

Adding trigger_push or something like that? It would push not only grenades, but players also. Bad thing.

The teleport destination target is 64 units ahead of the teleporter.. Which should be enough. But since a grenade can bounce a fair ways.. and they're literally coming out STRAIGHT backwards.. they fall back through the teleporter (twice, sometimes).

Updated: Okay, I'm kind of upset that this solution works, but:

It's a bug, methink.

If the teleporters are aligned the way I had them in the map, grenades will ALWAYS bounce backwards upon leaving the teleporter:

TA = Teleporter A
TB = Teleporter B
DA = Destination A
DB = Destination B

DB DA
TA TB

(Where in both cases, the user heads "down" or south to enter the teleporter..)


By moving things around a little, as follows, grenades behave properly:

TA DB................DA
.........................TB

In this case the teleporters are arranged so that there's a 90 degree turn separating the angle at which both operate. Arranged as above, all projectiles work, and grenades bounce properly.

"sminamijp" over at doom3world.org had it right, although I didn't initially believe that the grenades would behave the way he described:

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=13312

I've re-arranged my teleporters in the map in order to make this work? But it's annoying as a level designer, definately..

Thx to Raven for actually taking the time to test this and look into it.. Much appreciated. :icon31:

rgoer, could you also take a look at particle effects in mp? FX's are few units below the health bubbles after the respawn. Not a big deal, but... You know