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Persistant Map Doors

Persistant map doors: A way to transition between maps in singleplayer without ever leaving the game. :D


A map door is a configurable persistant entity that lets you go to other maps by pressing te USE button (E) on it.
When you go to a map that has a map door with a matching ID, you will spawn at the other door.



Located in the entities tab under "Map Doors."



How to use it:
1. go to any map
2. spawn a door
3. with the context menu open (hold C by default), right-click on the door and hit "edit properties"
4. set the ID to something unique that you'll remember easily and hit enter. This is how the door will link to another door in the other map; it should have the same ID as a door you want to connect it to. for example, "back wall door 1"
5. set the destination, for example, "gm_construct"
6. press USE (E by default) on it. you will now load into the map.
7. repeat these steps to create another door with the same id that leads back to the previous map.



FAQ:

Q: Errors!
A: Vagueness! (please be more specific!)

Q: Does this work in multiplayer?
A: No.

Q: Why doesnt it work in multiplayer?
A: Because it changes the map. this is something that is difficult to smoothly acheive in MP, so the addon essentially dissapears in MP games by design.
additionally, it uses the player initial spawn hook to spawn the doors, which ensures the server is loaded up and everything before it tries.

Q: The door doesnt look HD like the screenshots
A: Its not supposed to. i just happen to have an HD skin installed which also affects these doors, but its not default.

Q: Loading takes forever!
A: this addon has nothing to do with load times. If your taking too long to load into the next map, you probably just have a lot of addons.

Q: I tried to create a door with the same ID as another one on the map but it dissapeared!
A: This is intentional. there would be conflicts and confusing code if i let it stay around.

Q: How do i delete a door?
A: if a door still shows up after you remove it with the remover tool or similar, go into your gmod data folder and find the door's TXT file, and delete it (aswell as any preview image it may have)