Discouragement Field

Death Field example.

The Death Field is a special energy field in Portal 2 which kills any player touching it, but not destroying other objects. It can be considered as the counterpart to the Emancipation Grid.

Tutorial

• Create two prop_static entities
  • set their world-model to props/fizzler.mdl.
  • set their skin to 2
• Position the models at either side of where you want the Discouragement Field to be.
• Create a brush between the models, with a depth of 2 hammer units. (There are little notches in the fizzler.mdl - 2 units fits the notch perfectly).
  • Set the brush's texture to tools/toolsnodraw.
  • Set the texture of the 2 faces either side of the Discouragement Field to effects/laserplane
  • Turn this brush into the func_brush entity, call it laserfield_brush.
• Create a new brush the same size as laserfield_brush.
  • Set it's texture to tools/toolstrigger
  • Convert it into the brush entity, trigger_hurt and name it laserfield_hurt.
    • Set it's "Damage" to 999
    • Set it's "Damage Cap" to 999

• Create a logic_relay with the name lasergrid_off
  • Set the following outputs:

	My Output	Target Entity	Target Input	Parameter	Delay	Only Once
	OnTrigger	laserfield_brush	Disable	<none>	0.00	No
	OnTrigger	laserfield_hurt	Disable	<none>	0.00	No

• Create a logic_relay with the name lasergrid_on
  • Set the following outputs:

	My Output	Target Entity	Target Input	Parameter	Delay	Only Once
	OnTrigger	laserfield_brush	Enable	<none>	0.00	No
	OnTrigger	laserfield_hurt	Enable	<none>	0.00	No

• Turn the Discouragement Field on or off via the Trigger input of lasergrid_on and lasergrid_off.