Animated "Blocks"

[octacian]

...using entities? How hard would that be? on_construct it summons and entity followed by removing the block. Should be fairly simple. In fact, unless I am wrong about the whole idea, I think that it would be better if all blocks were in reality entities, as that would allow "advanced" animating as in the case of pistons from mesecons pushing other blocks.

[TenPlus1]

Entities slow down the game so using them instead of an actual node would bring the game to a crawl. You could use animated textures for a node if that helps, failing that as you said, use the on_construct to add an entity to the world and remove the node itself.

[octacian]

The thing is I need an animated teleporter. I guess I could manage to use textures, but some type of "model animation" would give the nicest effect.