Source: OnUse inside trigger areas

[Evert]

I have been trying to set up a case where I use a trigger_look, with an assigned target which works fine.

What I want is to have the the player to enter that area, look in the correct direction and ALSO have to press Use in order to 'investigate.

I can make it work with invisible buttons and logic and filter entities, but I want the "Use" to work everywhere inside a non-solid area.

Is there a simple way that anyone more familair with Source SP scripting know of?

What I have

Player sees green rock

Player walks up to green rock

Look at rock = "You found a green rock"

What I need

Player sees green rock.

Player walks up to green rock.

Message on screen: Investigate Rock

Look at rock+press Use = "You found a green rock"

[Seldoon182]

What's game/mods is it? If this is for personal work, the best way to go would be to create a new Source mod from Half-life 2 Sp. I think you're going to call your programming skills if you want to achieve your goal.

[Evert]

Yes it's a mod based on Source/Ep2.

That seems rather...

The entity system so far has proven very powerful. You can do all sorts of super-advanced stuff, there MUST be a way to hack this in with the current ones

Otherwise, programming skills Assemble!

[robert.briscoe]

you could have an invisible func_button around the rock to trigger the use event

[Evert]

I can make it work with invisible buttons and logic and filter entities, but I want the "Use" to work everywhere inside a non-solid area.

=)

[robert.briscoe]

screw you hippy!

[Campaignjunkie]

Turn every group of "rock" entities into a template, and then spawn instances of that template; you could parent the trigger_look and the func_button to the rock, and when it spawns the game will automatically increment the entity names so that instances don't conflict... See here: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Point_template

... or did I misunderstand the problem / question?

[Evert]

Yeah, that would still require the player to walk up and press use on the actual rock. The best (or what I want) would be to have an area, say 10 meters in every direction, and as soon as the player enters this area he is able to press Use in order to get the information about it.

[tofu]

I can't verify completely, as tf2 doesn't have a use option - but I applied the NPC Clip texture to the func_button and that removed its solidarity, so I could walk inside it - though I'm not sure if this removes the buttons function or whether you'll have NPC's nearby whom will still hit the collision.

[Evert]

Hmm closer

No NPC's to worry about, so this could have worked.

I can walk in and out of the button, and Use works, BUT only from the outside standing next to it and not when inside it =(

[tofu]

Create a batch of them, so that the 'inside' radius is made up of several small ones, so that the player is always next to one. Not ideal but should do the trick?

[Evert]

Yeah that crossed my mind as well, that is probably possible, I will do that if all else fails.

Interlopers mentioned the game_ui entity, might be able to hack something together with that.