How to trigger visibility of model?

[Springheel]

I feel like this should be pretty straightforward, and I'm pretty sure I've even explained how to do it to someone else a while ago, but for the life of me I can't remember or find the method for doing so:

 

I have a model that is essentially an electrical effect. I'd like to trigger its visibility on and off. I thought we used to have a func_hide, but I can't find one. Anyone remember how you trigger something to hide?

[nbohr1more]

Pretty sure:

 

"hide" "n"

 

(where "n" is either 0 or 1) can control that.

 

The only wiki entry has the hide script reference:

 

scriptEvent void hide();


Makes this entity invisible.


Spawnclasses responding to this event: idEntity

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=TDM_Script_Reference/2.03

[Springheel]

The DR description for func_static says:

 

"A brush model that just sits there, doing nothing. Can be used for conditional walls and models.
When triggered, toggles between visible and hidden (see hide). Entity is non-solid when hidden."

 

Is it confirmed that this doesn't actually work? It didn't for me.

[NeonsStyle]

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Edited December 27, 2017 by NeonsStyle

[Springheel]

"A brush model that just sits there, doing nothing. Can be used for conditional walls and models.

When triggered, toggles between visible and hidden (see hide). Entity is non-solid when hidden."

 

 

For future reference, this DOES work, but only if you manually add "hide" "0" to the func_static in question (thanks to Spooks for the info).

[HMart]

If you don't want to use a func_static or a spawnarg for that you can also make a script object for your effect and just call the methods hide() and show(), is overkill for such a simple thing but is a option.

 

self.hide();

 

self.show();

[Obsttorte]

You don't need a scriptobject for that, func_statics already make use of the hide and show function. A target_callobjectfunction should do the trick here.

 

 

For future reference, this DOES work, but only if you manually add "hide" "0" to the func_static in question (thanks to Spooks for the info).

This sounds like a bug to me.

[HMart]

You don't need a scriptobject for that, func_statics already make use of the hide and show function. A target_callobjectfunction should do the trick here.

 

Perhaps i explained me wrong I didn't said to use a scriptObject for func_statics, i said that a scriptObject is also a option to hide or show objects, a option among others.