Qworkshop3 Tutorials

I was asked the other day about making trap doors. So I decided to have a play, and see what I could come up with. The results are here for you all to gloat over. Not to everybody's taste, but can easily be adopted into different style traps.

The trap we're building opens the floor over a lava pit, when our hero picks up the BFG, which is nicely located in the middle of the room. For a little look at this idea in action, you can have a look at these screenshots.

Build a room.
First things first, we need a room and for my example, a lava pit below our room. You can grab my test map here to speed things up a bit. I'll assume we know all about making rooms by now :)

The Floor.
I decided to make the whole floor split into triangles. Most of you will probably have a small trap door/pit and not an entire room. I'll concentrate on one of the floor segments, and assume you can copy them as needed.
After building the first floor segment, we need to make it a func_door, mine is Right Mouse Button twice, and up pops the menu, select func > func_door. It should have turned our brush blue.
Now lets look at some of the keys we can use for the func_door. With the new door segment selected, pressing <N> will bring up the entity window. The keys we will be using are:

Tick the crusher tickbox. This ensures our door will always try and close, even if a player blocks it. With the high damage key, any blocking player will be gibbed, no questions asked. The rest are for your preference. Fill the rest of the keys in as you wish.
That's one floor segment complete, now make the rest by copying as needed, pressing <SPACE> will copy your current selection, and not forgetting to alter the angle key.

The Bait.
A BFG is always good bait, but again swap as required. What we will need to do is tick the suspend tick box in the items entity window. This just ensures that the item doesn't fall straight into our pit while the floor is open.

The In-between Bits.
Now we need to link everything together. Using a common > trigger texture, make a small brush and put it somewhere out of the way. Mine in just under the ceiling where it can't be touched. Turn it into a trigger_multiple entity.
Now the messy part. First select our new trigger brush, and then one of the floor segments we created earlier. Now press <CTRL> <K> to link them together. You should see a blue link line between them. Repeat for the rest of our floor sections.
And last of all the bait. Select what ever item you have used as the bait, then select the trigger brush. Again link them with <CTRL> <K>. Again there should be a link line joining them. Linking the bait to the trigger ensures that the floor only opens when a player takes the bait (our BFG).

Mine looks like this now.

The Extras.
That's all there is to it, you should have a working trap door floor now.
There are of course, other things to think about when building traps. Those of you using the supplied map will notice there is a common > nodrop brush in the lava pit, to stop unwanted weapons being deposited there.
And also there is a common > donotenter brush just under the floor. This is to try and persuade our bot friends that its not a good idea to go down into the pit while the floor is open, but of course they still fall in if they can't get out of the way in time :)

One other thing to think about is our floor. When opened, the func_door parts will be poking outside of our room, and most likely into our nearby rooms. You can either accommodate for this, build a smaller trap, or maybe move the func_door in another direction.

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