clavus/swep_construction_kit

Garry's Mod tool for created scripted weapon designs

swep_construction_kit's Issues

Unticking Show Viewmodel doesn't actually hide the viewmodel.

Apparently changing to color or material for viewmodels is impossible now. You need to find out a workaround to get it to work, and so far I haven't found anything.

Editing worldmodels on the fly?

Hello! What I've been trying to do is create a single melee weapon model that can take on different appearances depending on what item a player has equipped in Pointshop 2. Right now, all I'm trying to do is allow them to choose between several colors of lightsaber, which will only require the skin to be edited.

It works fine for the person who is holding the saber, it always appears to be the right color in both first person and third person modes, but to anyone else who is looking at them it appears to be the default color that I specify.

    local Melee = self.Owner //Code removed here because you have to pay for it. It just 
                             //returns the name of the item in the player's "Melee" slot
    if Melee == nil then
        self.VElements["SaberY"].skin = 5 //The default skin, same as the starting one.
        self.WElements["SaberY"].skin = 5
    else
        if Melee == "Red Lightsaber" then
            self.VElements["SaberY"].skin = 4
            self.WElements["SaberY"].skin = 4
        elseif Melee == "Blue Lightsaber" then
            self.VElements["SaberY"].skin = 0
            self.WElements["SaberY"].skin = 0   
        elseif Melee == "Green Lightsaber" then
            self.VElements["SaberY"].skin = 1
            self.WElements["SaberY"].skin = 1       
        elseif Melee == "Purple Lightsaber" then
            self.VElements["SaberY"].skin = 3
            self.WElements["SaberY"].skin = 3
        end
    end

This is the code I have written to make it change skins, and as stated above it only works for the player actually holding the saber. It's located inside the SWEP:Think() function. I've thrown everything I can think of trying to get it to work, but I just can't get it. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

Cant Drag Recently Renamed Items

You cant drag position/angle of a newly named item.
It returns to normal if you switch to another element and come back to the recently named one.

(question) Removing sprites

Hi Clavus, you can remove a model from a table on the fly using something like
if CLIENT then for _, v in pairs( self.WElements ) do if v.modelEnt and IsValid(v.modelEnt) then v.modelEnt:Remove() end end end
But is it possible to remove sprites in a similar fashion?

Cant Change x/y/z Of a Recently Named Item AND Dragged Element

After renaming an element and dragging it the elements x/y/z stays static. Sliding the values doesnt change the items position.
This effect doesnt apply to angles or scaling.

Add support for translucent material overrides on models

When setting up the world models, if you give it a translucent material override then it doesnt draw it correctly. You should draw these from the SWEP:DrawWorldModelTranslucent hook.

I will make a pull request when I have time.