Qworkshop3 Tuts

Hello, this is my first tutorial for Quake Workshop 3, so I will give it a shot. Now if you don’t know, I am Project leader of the Urban Terror TC, so if you ask, "Why C4?" that’s why. Also I expect you to have some mapping knowledge to do this tutorial, I guess this is a medium-to hard tutorial.

First, you will need one file to get the C4 trip wire working (tutorial.shader). you can find it here. Open your quake 3 folder, then go up to your baseq3, then go up another level to a folder called 'scripts'. If you don’t have one, make one. Now put the tutorial.shader that I included with this tutorial in that folder. It should now be located in '\Quake3\baseq3\scripts\tutorial.shader'. Now you have that script, but if you want Q3Radiant to read it, you need to open your ‘shaderlist.txt’, which can be found in your scripts folder. Add a line that says 'tutorial' to the bottom. This made it so Q3radiant will read the new shader when it starts up.

Now make a room that’s about 1024 units wide, 512 units long, and around 256 units high. Give the floor some texture like concrete, and the ceiling some kind of sky texture, as for the walls, make 2 parts to it; the bottom half, which would be made of concrete again, and the upper half which would be the same as your ceiling. It should look something like this
 
 The reason the walls are divided into 2 pieces is because the laser needs to be planted on something, but we still need light, so we need the sky as the top part. Now make a little cube on the left and right sides of the room, those will be those little thingies that holds the laser to the walls. See below to see what I mean.

All right then, lets make the actual trip wire, what you actually are reading this tutorial for. First, make a new brush, it should be from one side of the room to the other, connecting to and from the holders that you just made. The wire should be about 8 units tall and 8 units wide. Give all sides a texture of 'common/nodraw'. To do this fast, Press <S> and it should bring up the surface inspector window that looks like . 
Now <ctrl>+<shift>+<left click> one side of that brush, it should turn a little darker than the other sides.... we have now selected one face, to apply a texture to, so give it a texture of 'tutorial/laser'. It should look like this.

This makes the laser actually show up visually, but it still doesn’t do anything. Now we are at the part where we can get it to actually do something. Make a new brush in the same size of the laser brush, give it a texture of common/nodraw too, but this time <right click> the brush (on the grid, not the 3d view) and select on the menu, 'trigger->trigger_hurt'

 This made it a brush that will hurt you, but we still need to change it some. So press <N> and it will bring up your entity editor
window.
 Check the box that says, 'silent'. This will make it so the c4 wire doesn’t make the sound of bubbling acid when you step on it. Also, in the field that says 'key' type 'dmg', and in the 'value' field type '999'. This makes it so the trigger hurt that we just made dishes out 999 every second your on it. Lethal. Very lethal. hehehe. We have got it to do the visuals, we have got it to kill you, but yes, we need even more visuals.... but how you ask? Well, when you step on the wire, it is supposed to blow up, so we need to do this. Make a new brush in the same place as the others with the texture common/nodraw (yes, again!). <Right click> it too, and make it a 'trigger->trigger_multiple'.
 
Press <N> again, and make a key of 'target' and a value of 'launcher'. We do this because we need this brush to trigger the explosions when walked upon.

Great, now we get to make the actual explosions. Right click on the grid and select 'shooter->shooter_rocket'. 
You have now started your first explosion, but we will have 3 (one at a time please). So press <N> and make a key of 'targetname' and a value of 'launcher'. Make another key, this time of 'target' and a value of 'target1'. If done correctly you should have a red arrow connecting your trigger_mupltiple brush to your shooter_rocket. Before this explosive is done, there is one more thing we need to do to it, which is: making the destination path of your shooter_rocket (which is the floor) See, the trick is to make your rockets starts right above the floor, and go straight down to the ground. So you really don’t have time to see them, all you see is the explosion. (Like a trip wire!). So right click your grid and make an 'info->info_notnull'

 and it should place a little green box in your map. Press <N> and give it a key of 'targetname' and a value of 'target1'. Now your shooter should be linked to your info_nutnull. Make the shooter_rocket on the same line as the trigger_multiple, but right on the floor. Do the same with the info_notnull, and make sure it is in the same spot as the shooter (so the rocket doesnt go flying cross the map). All right, that’s it for trip wire, or is it? That will make one explosion, but we want more (yeah, the more the better!) so repeat the steps in this last paragraph to make more explosions on the same trip wire, but change anything that says 1 to 2, then 3 and make sure to space each shooter_rocket and info_notnull about 128 units from eachother so it looks like the trip wire has a chain of explosions.