Quake3World

yeah i been a lurker here in the fourms for quite some time, finnaly getting back into quake 3 mapping, but i am having an annoying time with these jump pads i am trying to put in!
as far as i know i am doing this right!

1st: create a trigger bush an give it Trigger_push
2nd: create an Target_location
3rd: connect the 2 using ctrl+k

here is a little screeny...



i think i am doing this right, i even looked on dm17 map an had a look see what entites they used for them an its the same as mine. what am i doing wrong?

you want a target_position, target location is for location in (team) messages

think i tryed the target_position as well, an still the same problem!

edit : yeah i just tryed that agine with target_position. still get the same problem!!

try info_null or target_push

i tryed that info_null after reading the info on trigger_push, still get the same problem...ill try target push now

ok tryed the target_push. still dident work...getting really frustraited now. i dont think there is anything to do with gtk 1.4.0?

trigger_push and an info_notnull - with the trigger_push targetting the info_notnull.

don't know if it's the best way to go about it but it works.

You're selecting the two in the wrong order, if you connect them correctly then the line connecting the two should be green, not grey.

Damn it Kaz. It's always the stuff that comes so natural to us that we overlook it.

Forget ctrl+k

Select your trigger_push, bring up the entity box and add the following key & value:

target
jp1

select your target_push / info_notnull, bring up the entity box and enter the following key and value:

tagetname
jp1

Job done.

Am I the only person on here that finds it quicker to just place the ent, hit n and then type the values, rather than messing around with ctrl+k?

Yes Amp, you are. :icon25:
But I go through the N window to make my jumppads because I'm weird anyways.

I still think my mapping would speed up if I used ctrl+k

Amphetamine wrote:Am I the only person on here that finds it quicker to just place the ent, hit n and then type the values, rather than messing around with ctrl+k?

selecting them and hit ctrl+k isn't what i'd call 'messing around' but ok :P

Well, not so bad if things are next to each other, it's quick to crtl+k then, but once you get to a point of having to move the view, then I'd drop the 1st ent, then: n target <tab> jp1 <enter> <esc> <esc>. It's quick when you're used to it, honest

kaz : yeah i thought there was always a way u had to select them 1st, as always i selected the Trigger_push then info_notnull. same problem.
Amphetamine : yeah i will give your way of doing things even tho i think it takes longer to do it thta way .

ok 3 cheers for kat. yeah i was not deselecting the inf0_notnull, an then hitting ctrl+k.

i am a noob

typing it in is faster once you've done it enough times... takes half a second. There is room for typos I suppose, but if you've done it enough to be that fast I guess you won't really mess up so much.

yeah i know that, but i am up for as little typing as possable

thanks for all the help guys

just on a random thought, is it possable to do "random" jump location from 1 jump pad?

I believe if you connect multiple entities to it it will select one at random.

I thought it would launch you to the first position it was connected to and ignore the others?

say if the random jump pad locations worked, is it also possable to set it so say if i had 4 possable directions to go off 1 jump pad, could i team bind 2 of them to red team, an 2 to the blue team? just another crazy thought

You might want to search for skore's electronics manual, it'd probably answer alot of your questions and give you some more ideas about what can be done with entities.

Oh man, Skore had some nice stuff going on.
Great recommendation on the manual Kaz. I completely forgot about it.

I did too until he mentioned "crazy thoughts" in connection with "jump pad" :P

oo cheers for the kat, ill go have a look into it now!