Moving Platforms Help!

Ok so I recently watched a tutorial on how to make custom moving platforms. In the comments, the interior tester shown wouldn't work.


So I loaded up my level on MB and when I tried to load the level (obviously) the platforms wouldn't show.

I tried changing the interior in the .mis file.

I couldn't see the moving platforms or anything but the interior.


Any way I could have help on this or at least some interior test to help me?

PS: Video -

I too, am having this issue. I searched and read you needed to an interior test, however whenever I did an interior test, the same thing occurred. The interior was there, but no moving platform.

If you just include the interior in your mission (without interior test, or if it doesn't create), you may need to manually create the moving platforms. Open the editor, click on your interior, and a "Create Subs" button should appear in the inspector (F3 mode). Press that. If still no moving platforms are created, then your interior did not export with any.

So how exactly could I fix this?


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and the one in constructor

Did you try using "Create Subs" like I described above?

Yes and it only displays the markers.

I even re-exported the map and Created Subs and still nothing.

That is quite strange. What happens if you Create Subs, save, and re-open the level?

Still Doesn't show up

Just the same results.

In that case, it is probably the case that your mapfile doesn't contain correctly formatted moving platforms, or your map2dif program did not export them correctly. In what order is your mapfile structured? It should be <normal brushes>, [<moving platform> <markers> <trigger>], [<moving platform> <markers> <trigger>], ...

What? I'm totally confused

When you open Properties in Constructor, what order do the entities appear in? It should look something like:

• worldspawn
• Door_Elevator
• path_node
• path_node
• path_node
• ...
• Trigger
• More of the same...

worldspwn
Door_Elevator
path_node (x3)
Door_Elevator (x2)
path_node
trigger
path_node (x6)
trigger (x2)
path_node (x3)
Door_Elevator

Ah, that explains it.

Constructor has some issues with grouping entities, especially Door_Elevators. Your best bet would be to open the .map file in a text editor, merge the 2x Door_Elevators into one, and move the triggers to correspond with the correct Door_Elevator. Or just re-create all the moving platforms and path_nodes in the correct order.

What is the order of the Door_Elevators and path_nodes? Would you put the door elevators above the path nodes?

HiGuy wrote: When you open Properties in Constructor, what order do the entities appear in? It should look something like:

• worldspawn
• Door_Elevator
• path_node
• path_node
• path_node
• ...
• Trigger
• More of the same...

This is the only order you want. Reason is you always have door elevators (i.e. the platforms) above the path nodes, which in turn come before the triggers. Otherwise map2dif gets confused and doesn't export them properly, and the mission file doesn't do anything with them so they aren't working.

Thanks, Matan, but now I'm having more problems. When I do the interior test, everything seems fine. The MustChange is there, and the path_nodes, but the platform doesn't move. Whats going on now?

What? I'm really confused now.

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Sorry it's been a while but I got it.

Thanks Matan and Jeff

You guys can lock this topic now

Locking up, also merged posts.