Creating Non-SWEP Traitor Items

[Domineeto]

I recently had an idea for traitor equipment that reduced falling damage so you could kill innocents more easily by crushing them, but I do not know how to start the script to make it passive like body armor. I've looked through my ttt folder and can't find the script for the body armor so I could use it as a base, anyone know if this is possible?

[bigbadboo]

"Lead boots" Would be funny, a new range of divebombing traitors.

[Domineeto]

Yeah, but now that the fall damage has increased its become very difficult to do this D:

[manbearpig101]

Well, Domineeto. For the body armor I am going to lead you to the "player.lua" file.

Find the "GM:ScalePlayerDamage" hook and then scroll down to:

if dmginfo:IsBulletDamage() and ply:HasEquipmentItem(EQUIP_ARMOR) then
      -- Body armor nets you a damage reduction.
      dmginfo:ScaleDamage(0.7)
   end

There is your body armor code. No problemo.

[Bad King Urgrain]

If you're not familiar with (gmod's) Lua, an equipment item (as opposed to a weapon) is one of the hardest customizations to make. They're not isolated to a single script like a weapon, so you'll also have to manually update your modifications into every new version.

Fall damage is something I'm actively tuning. The "safe distance" before you get damaged is a little too low again right now, and I will also be further reducing the amount of damage you still get when landing on someone.

[JoshJosh117]

I love jumping on people's heads in the elevator at ttt_nexus_final. So a custom item like this would be great.

[Marauder8]

I just had this idea for the Detective, it's and armoured hat(or mabye a helmet) which protects them from fall damage, and is visible on their model. You always said you wanted to implement a hat into TTT but didn't know a way to do it without breaking anything. It could even be a little detective hat.