How to use the multi_manager entity
by Silver

      The multi_manager (point entity), refered to as "mm", is one of the most powerfull entitys inside the editor. If you wanna make a singleplayerlevel, you can't live without it, and for those who just want to make a multiplayer map with some additional adds, is it still a very importaint entity.

      To understand how it works, is like imagining a robot that gets activated and after a predefined time, it will begin to activate other robots. When taking a look in the properties, it doesn't look like much. Only a name

      Now its very importaint to give it a name! A good name would be something like mm or mm1, because then you can remember the name from the function of the trigger. If having multiple triggers in your map, then use something like mm_light, if having it triggering a group of lights.

      To make the mm to trigger other inititys or events, you have to deselect the smart editor

      Now the multi_manager probeties look diffrent from the old ones. You have two variables now. press add, and remove the "newkey" and instead write the name of the triggered intity / event, and value is the amount of seconds before its triggered. AFter finishing these two baisc steps, press ok, and a the two variables would be refreshed. The mm can handle multiple comandoes (cant remember the excact numbers) but it should be around 8-10 diffrend exec.

      Lets see what it can be used as. As refered earlyer, a multi_managers main purpose is singleplayer maps. But it can also be used in multiplayer maps. Below is the list of intitys and their values

mm:

      that was the mm, and now we hafta make the intitys the mm just triggered.

      First something to trigger the mm, lets say a button.

      So we have a button, when pressed it will trigger the mm. but the mm has to trigger something. As you can see one of the variables was called "weap", so yu can guess it has something to do with weapons. So i place a info_player_equip in the map Name it weap, and turn of smart edit. Then i add these variables

      Now for the light properties.

      And for the sound:

      Remember two things, put the CORRECT path for the sound file under filename for wave. seccond. under flags, choose is NOT looped. Wich means that when the file will only play once. The last intity in my excample is the door.

      Remember to check toogle under flags. So the door will only open when its triggered. build a room with one door. A button a info_player start, and use the given intitys. What happens in short is, when you press the button, you will recieve an AK and a knife. 0,2 seconds after youve pressed the button, a light would be turned on. And 1 second after youve pressed the button, you will hear a sound and the door will open at the excact time.....

      If you made this, and it didnt work, try double check all the intitys and variables. Even a minor spellmistake, will cause, not in an error but in an intity that isnt triggerd. It is very hard to understand the first couple of times, but try do decompile a given singleplayer level, and see how the diffrend intitys coop.

      -silver

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