Point energy ball launcher

Class hierarchy
CEnergyBallLauncher ↳CPointCombineBallLauncher ↳CFuncCombineBallSpawner ↳CBaseEntity
prop_energy_ball.cpp

point_energy_ball_launcher is a point entity available in Portal series. It spawns and launches a prop_energy_ball periodically.

Note:In Portal 2, the models, materials, and sounds for the actual balls are missing and must be copied from HL2.

Keyvalues

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

Ball Lifetime (balllifetime) <float>

The time in seconds the ball will live before self-destructing. A negative value will give infinite life.

Min life after portal transition (minlifeafterportal) <float>

When energy balls created by this launcher pass through a portal and their life is refreshed to be this number at minimum.

Ball count (ballcount) <integer>

This is how many balls will be bouncing around inside the spawner

Min ball speed (minspeed) <float>

The minimum speed of balls that fly in the spawner

Max ball speed (maxspeed) <float>

The maximum speed of balls that fly in the spawner

Ball radius (ballradius) <float>

The radius of the energy balls

Ball Type (balltype) <choices>

Has no effect.

Ball Respawn Time (ballrespawntime) <float>

The energy balls respawn time

Ball Bounces (maxballbounces) <integer> (only in )

Sets on which bounce the ball should explode. (Ported from HL2 combine balls)

Ball Damage (balldamage) <float> (only in )

The amount of damage the ball should deal to players

Ball explode player (ballexplodeplayer) <boolean> (only in )

Sets if the ball should explode on player contact or ignore the player

Ball body material override (ballmaterial1) <material> (only in )

Override the main ball material.

Ball flicker material override (ballmaterial2) <material> (only in )

Overrides the other ball material.

Ball knockback multiplier (ballknockback) <float> (only in )

Flags

Override ball material  : [1]

Start inactive : [4096]

Combine power supply : [8192]

Inputs

BallCaught  (in all games since )

Ball this launcher created was 'caught'.

LaunchBall

Enable

Enable spawning of combine balls

Disable

Disable spawning of combine balls

Outputs

OnBallCaught  (in all games since )

Fired when a ball this entity has launched has been 'caught'.

OnPostSpawnBall

Fired after the ball has spawned.

OnBallGrabbed

Fired when a combine ball is grabbed from the field by a mega physcannon

OnBallReinserted

Fired when a combine ball is reinserted into the field (only gets triggered when Combine Power supply is checked)

OnBallHitTopSide

Fired when a combine ball in hits the top side of the field (only gets triggered when Combine Power supply is checked)

OnBallHitBottomSide

Fired when a combine ball in hits the bottom side of the field (only gets triggered when Combine Power supply is checked)

OnLastBallGrabbed

Fired when the last combine ball is grabbed from the field by a mega physcannon

OnFirstBallReinserted

Fired when the first combine ball is reinserted into the field (only gets triggered when Combine Power supply is checked)

See also

• Creating an energy ball launcher and catcher