Level Editor/Entities/Door

Door
Made with	Functional > Door (from Selection)
What it is	Brushes and props that slide or swing open when a player walks up, and close again
In the game	Yes, it is exported with the map

A door is a set of brushes and props that slides or swings open when a player walks up to it and closes again by itself, as Hammer's func_door and func_door_rotating do: spawn room doors, a garage shutter, a gate only one team opens, a hatch the gamemode opens when a point is captured.

Making one

1. Build the door's leaf from brushes and props, standing shut in its doorway.
2. Select them all.
3. Choose Functional > Door (from Selection). (With nothing selected: Select the brushes and props the door is made of first.)

The selection goes into a new door, as Group Selection puts it into a group: its origin in the middle of what it holds, everything keeping its place. Undo takes it back out. The status line says Door made of N node(s): it slides up its own height; its motion and who opens it in the inspector. A new door slides up its own height, opens for anybody, and closes three seconds after it has opened.

To change what a door holds, drag brushes and props into or out of it in the scene tree. A door is not something new things are placed into by clicking.

The blue line in the views is the path the middle of the door takes: straight for a slide, an arc for a swing.

Inspector

Motion

Setting	Type	Default	What it does
Motion	List	Slide	Slide or Swing.
Slide Direction	List	Up	Slide. Which way it opens, in the door's own axes: Up, Down, Left, Right, Forward, Back.
Slide By Size	Check box	On	Slide. Move its own size that way, less Lip. Off, move Slide Distance.
Slide Distance	Meters	2.0	Slide. How far it moves, with Slide By Size off.
Lip	Meters	0	Slide. How much of the door stays in the doorway when it has slid its own size. A door 3 m tall with a 0.2 m lip slides up 2.8 m and leaves 20 cm showing below the lintel.
Speed	m/s	2.5	Slide. How fast it slides.
Hinge Point	Meters (X, Y, Z)	the left edge	Swing. A point on the hinge line, in the door's own space. A new door's hinge is the left edge of what it holds.
Hinge Axis	Direction	Up (0, 1, 0)	Swing. The hinge line's direction, in the door's own space.
Swing Degrees	-360 to 360	90	Swing. How far it turns.
Swing Away	Check box	On	Swing. Swing away from whoever opened it, as a pushed door does. Off, always the way Swing Degrees turns.
Swing Speed	°/s	120	Swing. How fast it turns.

Behavior

Setting	Type	Default	What it does
Wait	Seconds	3	How long it stands open before closing. While a player who may open it stands at it, it stays open. Below 0 it never closes by itself.
Starts Open	Check box	Off	Open when the map starts.
Starts Locked	Check box	Off	Locked when the map starts. A locked door does not open until something sends it Unlock.
Team	List	Anyone	Who opens it by walking up to it: Anyone, Team 1 or Team 2.
Touch Opens	Check box	On	Walking up to it opens it. Off, only the gamemode or an output opens it.
Trigger Reach	Meters	1.0	How far round the shut door a player opens it from.

Sounds: Open Sound, Close Sound and Locked Sound pick from the game's own sounds (type to search); none by default. The locked sound plays when a player who could open the door tries it while it is locked.

Outputs: what the door fires as it moves, and at whom (see below).

Preview: Play opens the door, lets it wait and shuts it again, once, on a see-through copy of what it holds. Nothing in the map moves, so nothing you save is ever half open.

Outputs and inputs

Events a door fires: OnOpen and OnClose as it starts to move, OnFullyOpen and OnFullyClosed as it stops, and OnLockedUse when a player it would open for walks up while it is locked.

Inputs it takes, by its name in the scene tree: Open (a locked door stays shut), Close, Toggle, Lock (nothing opens it, and bots stop pathing through it) and Unlock. See Outputs and logic.

In the game

• Whoever stands on a door rides it, and whatever is in its way is pushed. It never stops for a player in its way and never hurts one: a player caught between a door and a wall is pushed out.
• Sounds play on players' machines.
• A door is lit by light probes rather than the lightmap, so it leaves no baked shadow where it stood shut.
• A door does not ride a moving platform; it exports where it stands.
• Give each door its own name: with two doors of the same name the game opens only the first, and the export warns.

Bots know about doors. The floor in a doorway becomes its own piece of the navigation, which the game opens to every bot while the door is open, to the bots of the team that opens it by walking up while it is shut (by touch, or through a zone whose OnEnter or OnFirstEnter opens it, at once or through a relay, with the output's Team set), and to none while it is locked. Bake a Nav Region over the doorway as for any floor. If the export log says a door has no doorway polygons, there is no walkable baked floor under it.

From a gamemode

api.doors, api.door_open, door_close, door_toggle, door_lock, door_unlock, door_state and the _door_changed hook. See Map entities.

Related pages

• Button
• Outputs and logic
• Team gates (a door that is always open for one team)