Creating Doors

Allthough  the  use  of  doors  within  the actual
game  was  limited  at  best,   their  use  in   Mods
such as Q3 Fortress and Weapons factory alone
warrant  a  basic  tutorial.


I've  started  out  with  a  basic arched doorway that connects
two  rooms.   Make  sure  that  the  brushes  that  will  make  up
your  doorway  do  not exit your bounding box or you may end
up  with  some  unpleasant  results.   Just  make the brush set
that  connects  the  two  rooms  exceed the path that the door
brushes will take.  Now simply make two brushes that match 
the height of your doorway and cover the width of the door.


   

Now texture the door brushes with any of the images from the
'base_door' or 'gothic_door' folders in the texture menu.  Once
your textures are lined up properly select the first door brush
and  right-click  on  the 2D window and choose 'func_door'.  Do
the same with the other door brush .  Now both of the brushes
will  act  like  doors  but  they  need  to know which direction to
move.  Hit  the  'n'  key to bring up the entity window and select
the  first  half  of  the  door  and  with the angle keys hit the '90'
button.  Now  do  the  same  with  the  other half of the door but
hit  the  '270'  button.  If  you  look  down on your map the angle
keys  line  up  with the direction of the grid.  So think of '90' as 
being "north", and '270' as being "south" and so on.


    

Now  the  last  thing  to  do will be to let the two door brushes
know  that  they are supposed to work together.  Once again
select  the  first  door  brush,  bring  up  the  entity menu and
enter in the key field 'team' and 'd1 as the value.  Repeat the 
process  for  the  other  door  brush  and  boom!   You've  just
made  a  door.  The  other  keys  for this entity are as follows:
                                    Speed:  Default is 100.                                            
                                                           Wait    :  Number of seconds before door closes.       
                                                                 Lip        :  The remaining units of the door as it opens.   
                                                                       Dmg    :  Dictates how much damage a player will suffer.
That's it!  Now let's take a little gander at the new creation.