Custom Elevator Doors

This guide will describe the steps necessary to add custom automatic doors to your custom elevator build using World Builder

Custom Elevator Doors

Requirements

Tools

• World Builder

Knowledge

• You need to have a basic understanding of:

  • Using World Builder (Spawning things and importing into WolvenKit)

  • How to build Custom Elevators

Overview

• In this guide, we will build a custom door that opens/closes automatically when your lift arrives, but stays locked when the lift is not at the current floor

Setup

• You should already have spawned and linked a custom lift, terminals, and markers - as detailed in the Custom Elevators guide

Spawning Devices

• First we need to choose a door. For this example we will use a double glass door

• The door we will use is base\gameplay\devices\doors\double_door\double_door_glass_k.ent

  • Spawn it as Device, and place it somewhere

Make sure to spawn the door as a Device. (Entity -> Device in World Builder)

Assigning NodeRef

• In order to link and reference the spawned door, it will need it's own unique NodeRef

• Select the door in World Builder, then expand the World Node header and fill the NodeRef field with a unique string

Do not use the same NodeRef name as used in this guide, choose your own unique one instead

Linking Devices

• Next we need to tell the elevator terminal to use your new door.

• First select the terminal for the floor at which you just placed your door

• Go to the Device -> Device Connections header of the terminal

• Add one entry for the new door

  • Fill the device class name field (On the left) with the device class name of the door

    • In our case this would be DoorControllerPS, which can also be found under the device header of the door

  • Fill the NodeRef field with the NodeRef of the door that you are linking

Setting Up Instance Data

• In order for the door to open/close automatically, stay locked when not in use, and be recognized as a lift door, we will need to use entity instance data

• Select the door in world builder and navigate to:

  • Entity Instance Data / DoorController / persistentState / DoorSetup

  • under doorType select automatic

  • under initialDoorState select locked

  • select isLiftDoor

once the automatic setting is selected, the door will no longer function until you import to WolvenKit

Finishing up

• You should now have an automatic door spawned as a device, with it's own NodeRef, and linked to the terminal of your choosing

• Add this to your custom elevator project in World Builder and you are ready to export

• Import into WKit

This process can be repeated for each terminal in your elevator build

It is possible to link multiple doors to a single terminal. Simply add another entry in Device Connections of the terminal. Especially useful if your lift opens on multiple sides