anyway to make a displacement breakable?

[velvet cedar]

thats pretty much it

[molten wedge]

no

[velvet cedar]

darn

[astral swift]

I swear you could make displacements brush entities... maybe not

[molten wedge]

You never could

In hammer you can but the map wont compile

[burnt oxide]

no

[honest blaze]

best you can do is:

1. make the displacement non-solid
2. create a func_breakable the same shape as the displacement textured with a nodraw material (containing fitting surfaceprop)
3. target a material_modify_control or env_texturetoggle when the func_breakable breaks

[waxen fox]

cant you make the displacement a model instead? Then you can have it breaking

[honest blaze]

depends upon if you want it to have blended textures

[autumn ginkgo]

you could bake the textures

[tawdry glade]

Over Engineer method

1. import the geometry into blender
   animate the quads breaking apart (physics simulation)
2. Bring it back into Hammer as dynamic prop
3. figure out your own method of triggering the animation just once.
   I could go into depth but I am busy

they used a similar method to simulate the bridge collapsing in EP2

[autumn ginkgo]

could use gibs

convert it to a dynamic prop and the split that geometry into pieces, set up gibs for it