Platform/Elevator not showing

mattbeighton · Post by **mattbeighton** » April 16th, 2012, 6:22 am

I am a teacher looking to use sandbox in my school but am trying to get to grips with it before I do so. I have created a basic map in FPS mode with a tower and want to create a moving platform. I have followed the Youtube tutorials and set the direction, speed and type (12). When I press E I go in to game mode but the entity (set to platform) stays as a sparkly blue ball with the name Platform above it. Am I missing something?

Matt

mattbeighton · Post by **mattbeighton** » April 16th, 2012, 9:15 am

When I reloaded the map they started to appear so problem solved. However, they appear at an almost random location. I set the entity positioner and when I enter game mode they appear to the left or right or above or below it, this changes every time I load the map into game mode. Is this normal behaviour?

Post by **arcones** » April 16th, 2012, 9:56 am

I can't remember how fast the speed is, but it may be that the speed is too fast. I doubt that though.

mattbeighton · Post by **mattbeighton** » April 16th, 2012, 1:28 pm

It is set to 30 at the minute. I'll try slowing it down.

Post by **chocolatepie33** » April 16th, 2012, 6:14 pm

mattbeighton wrote:I am a teacher looking to use sandbox in my school but am trying to get to grips with it before I do so. I have created a basic map in FPS mode with a tower and want to create a moving platform. I have followed the Youtube tutorials and set the direction, speed and type (12). When I press E I go in to game mode but the entity (set to platform) stays as a sparkly blue ball with the name Platform above it. Am I missing something?
Matt

It's likely that you're in co-op edit mode, you need to be in single player mode for the platforms (and other entities) to show up.

mattbeighton wrote:When I reloaded the map they started to appear so problem solved. However, they appear at an almost random location. I set the entity positioner and when I enter game mode they appear to the left or right or above or below it, this changes every time I load the map into game mode. Is this normal behaviour?

Make sure that the platform isn't being "squeezed" by geometry. If there's not enough room for the platform to show up in, then it will be pushed out into an area where there is enough room.

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