Few errors with my TTT weapon I am making.

[Tom]

So basically I am making a traitor weapon that will allow the user to run faster and then slower. The fast and slow part is done but I get a few errors.



http://pastebin.com/aGd2yDe9

That's my code.

And the crowbar look is messed up, it looks like he's trying to aim with it. How would I go about making the crowbar look like the regular crowbar looks. (How he's like holding it out), Instead of him trying to shoot something with it.

Any help is appreciated.

Also, I made this icon: How would I about converting it for use with ingame pictures in the menu?

[Bad King Urgrain]

http://pastebin.com/aGd2yDe9

That's my code.

You are getting the errors because you are not deriving the weapon from the TTT baseclass. Use:
  SWEP.Base = "weapon_tttbase"

The model will hold it wrong because "crowbar" is not a valid HoldType value. Set it to:
  SWEP.HoldType = "melee"

Other things:
- Don't set SWEP.WeaponID. It's only for the weapons that come with TTT. Have you looked at the code for weapon_tttbase? It has a lot of comments that tell you these things.
- Don't define a SWEP:Initialize() override unless you know what you're doing. The TTT weapon base does important things in that function.
- Because "isRunning" is global, you will run into weird behaviour when multiple traitors use the weapon. Make it SWEP.isRunning.
- Test regularly on a listen server rather than singleplayer. Singleplayer is special and you will not see certain issues. For example, the client has no "SetWalkSpeed" function for players because it's server-side. Your code will try to set the player's speed on the client in multiplayer and give an error.

Also, I made this icon: How would I about converting it for use with ingame pictures in the menu?

/gamemodes/terrortown/template/icon.psd

Stick your image on that background in photoshop. Export to VTF (BGRA8888, point sample, no mipmap, no level of detail). Make sure you give it a unique filename (eg. with your server name in it) because otherwise it can clash with icons from other servers. Make a VMT based on the VMTs for standard TTT icons. Stick a resource.AddFile in your weapon code to make clients download it.

If I were you I'd just use the standard crowbar icon until the weapon itself was fully working and turns out to be fun and balanced, or all that effort will be for nothing. To use the crowbar:
  SWEP.Icon = "VGUI/ttt/icon_cbar"

I would like to write a guide about custom weapons with more detail than this, because I realise it's tough to make a weapon right now unless you're well versed in Gmod's Lua stuff, but I just don't have time right now. Maybe in a few weeks.

[Tom]

Thanks so much for the detailed reply. It helped me a lot.

By the way, the icon took no longer than 10 minutes ^^;

[Tom]

Okay, i've come up with more problems. I changed HoldType to melee, yet I still see this for some reason.



When I want it to look like this:



Also, when I converted my icon to VTF and VMT format, stuck it in VGUI/ttt, and then changed the code to use that icon, all it does is come up with a black box.

Here is my current code: (please realize that I'm extremely new to lua and I am trying to learn as fast as I can)

http://pastebin.com/jxVW1TjA

Thank you for any reply

[Bad King Urgrain]

I've just gone ahead and fixed a couple of Lua issues and such:
http://pastebin.com/FHtk5Qik

I have no idea why the holdtype wouldn't work properly. Maybe one of the issues I've fixed created an error or something that prevented the weapon from working properly.

Could you upload the icon somewhere?

[Tom]

Sure, I uploaded the icon before I converted it to VTF and VTM format and the VTF and VTM files that I converted from.

http://rapidshare.com/files/404556718/erroricon.zip.html

Also, if you come up with a fix for the holdtype could you post it in this thread? The entire base of the weapon is that a traitor can have a weapon that looks like a crowbar but it's something different.

Thank you for fixing the code for me, as well.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I'm not looking for a fix for the holdtype, you'll have to do that yourself. It works for every other weapon, so it's a problem with this specific one.

The VTF seems fine, but your VMT is wrong. Check out the VMT files that come with TTT, like icon_armor.vmt.

[Tom]

I'm not looking for a fix for the holdtype, you'll have to do that yourself. It works for every other weapon, so it's a problem with this specific one.

The VTF seems fine, but your VMT is wrong. Check out the VMT files that come with TTT, like icon_armor.vmt.

After looking at icon_armor and changing my icon to match that it works. Thanks for your help. It means a lot :)

[Tom]

I've been trying to look for the crowbar weapon, but I cannot find it in weapons or anywhere else, can you direct me to where it is?

[Bad King Urgrain]

The entity name is weapon_zm_improvised.

[Tom]

Thanks, I added these lines, and the model works fine now. It's awesome :D

SWEP.Primary.Delay = 0.5
SWEP.Primary.Ammo = "none"
SWEP.Secondary.Ammo = "none"
SWEP.NoSights = true

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What server is this on?

[Tom]

What server is this on?

It isn't on any servers yet, unfortunately. I will probably get it on Chiefeh's though.