trigger_weapon_dissolve

trigger_weapon_dissolve is a brush entity available in Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.

Entity description

A brush entity trigger that dissolves weapons forcefully dropped by trigger_weapon_strip within its volume. It is used by the Confiscation Field in both Half-Life 2 and Episode One to dissolve all the player's weapons except the Gravity Gun, supercharging it instead.

For proper functionality, both brush entities must be used.

This entity in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cannot start it's supercharging sequence of the Gravity Gun, as the gun removes itself even when dropped by trigger_weapon_strip.

Bug:The game will crash if a weapon targeted for dissolving by this entity is removed by other means.  [todo tested in ?]

In code, it is represented by theCTriggerWeaponDissolveclass, defined in thehl2_dll\hl2_triggers.cppfile.

Keyvalues

Emitter Name ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

Name of a single or multiple entities to use as the basis for the emitted effects.

BaseTrigger

Filter Name (filtername) <filter> A filter entity to test potential activators against. Start Disabled (StartDisabled) <boolean> Stay dormant until activated (with theEnableinput).

Flags

BaseTrigger

Everything (not including physics debris) : [64] Clients (Survivors, Special Infected, Tanks ) : [1] Only clients in vehicles : [32] Only clients *not* in vehicles : [512] Disallow Bots (removed since ) : [4096] NPCs (Common Infected, Witches ) : [2] Only player ally NPCs : [16] Only NPCs in vehicles (respects player ally flag) : [2048] Physics Objects (not including physics debris) : [8] Physics debris (include also physics debris) : [1024] Pushables (Passes entities with classname func_pushable) : [4]  Deprecated. Equivalent to using Everything + filter_activator_class that filters func_pushable.

Inputs

StopSound

Stops all sounds.

BaseTrigger

Toggle Toggles this trigger between enabled and disabled states. Enable Enable trigger Disable Disable trigger TouchTest  (in all games since ) Triggers either the OnTouching or OnNotTouching outputs for whether anything is touching this entity. Bug:Sleeping prop_physics will never fire "OnTouching". Also applies to entities using prop_physics as base.  (tested in: ) StartTouch  (in all games since ) !FGD Behave as if the !caller entity had just entered the trigger volume. Accepts non-physical entities. EndTouch  (in all games since ) !FGD Behave as if !caller had just exited the trigger volume. DisableAndEndTouch  (only in ) Disables this trigger and calls EndTouch on all currently-touching entities.

Outputs

OnDissolveWeapon

Fires when one weapon is starting to dissolve in the trigger volume.

OnChargingPhyscannon

Fires when the trigger begins to charge the physcannon.

BaseTrigger

Bug:Spamming crouch jumps in a trigger can randomly fire OnStartTouch/OnEndTouch. Confirm:Is it a Multiplayer issue only?   [todo tested in ?] OnStartTouch !activator = entity that caused this output !caller = !self = this entity Fired when a valid entity starts touching this trigger. OnStartTouchAll !activator = entity that caused this output !caller = !self = this entity Fired when a valid entity starts touching this trigger, and no other entities are touching it. If there are any other entities touching the trigger when a new one begins to touch, only OnStartTouch will fire. OnEndTouch !activator = entity that caused this output !caller = !self = this entity Fired when a valid entity stops touching this trigger. Note:Will also fire for entities touching it when trigger is disabled via Disable input Warning:This includes entities which are deleted while inside the trigger. In this case !activator will be invalid. Warning:OnEndTouch can fire before OnStartTouch under certain circumstances[How?] where both are fired on the same tick and each have the same delay. Fix:Add a slight delay to OnEndTouch. OnEndTouchAll !activator = entity that caused this output !caller = !self = this entity Fired when all valid entities stop touching this trigger. OnTouching  (in all games since ) !activator = !caller = !self Fired if something is currently touching this trigger when TouchTest is fired. OnNotTouching  (in all games since ) !activator = !caller = !self Fired if nothing is currently touching this trigger when TouchTest is fired.