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This tutorial will show you how to add breakable objects into your Urban Terror maps. To make a breakable object follow the steps below. For this tutorial we will create a glass window, but there are other material types that you can use: wood, ceramic, plastic, metal & stone.

Framing Up

In this tutorial we will just make a regular window with breakable glass. I'll assume you know how to make a hole in a wall for a window. I'll be using this example from Bohemia.

Adding a brush

Now for the window, create a brush to exactly fill the hole left for the window. Texture this brush with common/weapclip on all sides except the front and back. Texture the front and back with a glass shader; ut_turnpike/glass_clear will work well. Now we've got a wall, and a window, but it still won't break when you shoot it.

Making it Breakable

Now we'll apply the breakable function. This is done by selecting the window brush, and then right clicking in the 2D window. This should bring up a pop-up menu with all the available entities. Go into the sub-menu func and then select func_breakable. When you've done this successfully, check that you still have the window selected and bring up the Entity properties by pressing N. You need to enter two keys for the breakable to work properly, health and type. First enter type into the 'key' textbox. And then enter 0 into the 'value' textbox. When you've done this, press Enter to add the new key. This will tell Urban Terror that it's supposed to show glass breaking and not wood or plastic. If you want to change the material type just replace the 0 with:

Health

OK, now we have a breakable window, but we still need to add some health to it. The health key controls how strong the breakable is. This health value should be between 1 and 11. If you give a breakable a high amount of health it will be harder to break. Enter health into the 'key' textbox and the amount of health into the 'value' textbox. Setting a low health value means that players don't have to waste ammo to break it.

Shards

You can control the amount of fragments you want by setting the shards key, a value between 1 and 32 is accepted.

When you've done this, the only thing left is to compile and start up your map to break the glass! Note however that glass never can face the void since it generates leaks.

Notes