Create the "Ready Room"

Zombie_Panic!_Source_Level_Creation

--Shepard62700FR 19:26, 6 May 2012 (GMT+1)

Introduction

In Zombie Panic! Source, players choose their teams in what is called the "Ready Room". This is where players goes into triggers that activate their team selection.

The room itself

The mapper decide where and how to design the "Ready Room", however, there is a rule to respect : Players that haven't chosen their team should not be able to interact with the "playable part" of the map.

Creating the triggers

Creating the triggers is simple, we're gonna create the "Survivor Team" : 1. Create a brush with the "tools/toolstrigger" texture where you want players to join the survivors once they have touched the trigger. 2. Convert the brush to an brush entity and select "trigger_joinhumanteam", there are no need to configure the "Name" and "HUD Description Message" parameters.

To create the triggers for the Zombies and the Spectators, just duplicate the one you made for the survivors and change the entity to the one corresponding to the team ("trigger_joinzombieteam", "trigger_joinspectatorteam")

Hints and tips

• To indicated which team correspond each trigger, you can place non-solid brushes (func_illusionnary) in front of the triggers using those textures : "zpcustommaterials/zp_signs/zp_humanteam", "zpcustommaterials/zp_signs/zp_zombieteam" and "zp_custommaterials/zp_signs/zp_joinspectator"
• You can also use a blue light to represent the humans, a red one for zombies, and a white light for spectators
• You can use team specific representation to represent the triggers (for exemple, you can place weapons and ammo in the survivors section, blood and ragdolls for the zombie section)