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Real Oneway Glass In Quake ... It's Possible, But How?

Posted by Baker on 2005/09/19 02:05:21

I've been looking around for how to make one-way glass in way. I am aware of 2 or 3 "wrong" methods.

The correct method is employed in the map ID3

ftp://ftp.runecentral.com/quake/maps/id3.zip

In the map ID3, there is an observation area below the DM6 red armor area. You can see everything above it, but shoot a rocket at it and it explodes on contact but from above you can't even see that area.

(Of course this is the "best" glass we have in Quake).

Away, I can't find any info on how to make this type of glass.

Anyone know? Is there a certain color in the palette that is 100% transparent and you paint that face of the wall with it?

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#38 posted by EARP on 2014/06/26 05:06:13

I have seen glass on a map and it isn't any of the ones you have mentioned here. And it looks great to me.

EARP

There Are A Few Ways Of Doing Glass.

#39 posted by RickyT33 on 2014/06/26 10:25:57

If you make a 64x64 single-color texture (grey or whatever) and give it a *blah name so it behaves like water in the engine, then you can put a skip-texture func_wall over it (so the player cant swim through the window) and set the wateralpha accordingly.

Or you can just make a func_wall and give it an _opacity key. Both rely on non-standard engines or some progs.

The first version I mention above is limited by the fact that you need to trigger the cvar wateralpha, do-able with the Quoth mod's info_command or trigger_command entities.

The other version requires an engine that supports transparency via the _opacity key. Most do now, but Vanilla GLQuake doesn't for example.

The Good Engines

#40 posted by ijed on 2014/06/26 14:34:56

Support the 'alpha' key now.

Just give an entity (any one you like) an alpha value of less than 1 (solid) but greater than 0 (completely transparent.

EDFM9 MAP

#41 posted by EARP on 2014/06/26 22:05:31

You can get the edfm9 here, in case you don't have a copy and want to check it out...

http://mpqarchive.pauked.com/index.php?view=show10best

Non-bleeding Glass In Quake1

#42 posted by neosoleil / sistersoliel /midine on 2018/12/07 22:38:34

Hey all.

I made non-bleeding glass and uploaded it to a really old Quake1 map editor website that I can't even remember the name of. I came across the property shift in a func_trigger (I think?) if you give it a health attribute and super-long delay time. In start.bsp for quake1, the "dopefish lives in the crypt of decay" shootable texture on the stretched face leading to the nightmare teleport... I noticed that while it was doing the 'cool-down' that you could stand and walk and interact and it would produce sparks instead of blood. The trick then is to have an func_trigger on spawn points in the map which triggers a one-time nail to shoot th glass when the level loads.

Super ghetto - but it worked - and it required 0 engine modifications. This eventually made its way into the observation areas for the initial release of Rocket Arena. I chatted with Zephod on a rocketarena server once and we were both like "oh wow its an honor to meet you." I cherish those uber-dork moments :) Love you all and keep on quaking. cheers

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