Hammer Feature: point_energy_ball_catcher

[DrHandlock]

Which component should be improved?

Entity

Describe your feature suggestion in more detail

Currently, they're is a point entity known as the point_energy_ball_laucher, which fires energy balls. This entity could be used for many things, one of them, and likely will be used a lot for the platform P2CE, is High Energy Pellet (HEP) puzzles as seen in Portal, but in Portal that the launcher is only half the puzzle, the other half is the catcher, which "catches" the HEP and outputs something, so for the convience for Portal 1 map creating in the Strata Engine, I purpose another entity that will do that, a "point_energy_ball_catcher"

[TeamSpen210]

It'd be better to just use an instance for this. There isn't one single pellet catcher implementation, depending on what you want exactly you might want to tweak things. In particular, if this was an entity, stuff like the Rexaura timed catcher, a resettable one, or doing things like tweaking distances to match the level geometry wouldn't be possible.

The regular implementation also uses a lot of different entities, triggers etc which also would be tricky to condense into one entity.