Weapon shotgun

Entity Description

Shotgun from HL2 (photo taken in hammer)

This entity places a 12-gauge shotgun in a map. When the shotgun is picked up, the player is given 12 shells, and the shotgun if not already in the player's inventory.

Additional shells (up to 36 in total) can be picked up. A box of shotgun shells can be placed in a map with the item_box_buckshot entity.

The shotgun also follows all physics rules as if it were a prop_physics.

Behind the scenes

The shotgun's appearance is based upon the Franchi SPAS-12 Shotgun.

Flags

Start Constrained : [1]

Prevents the model from moving.

Deny player pickup (reserve for NPC) : [2]

Not puntable by Gravity Gun : [4]

Inputs

HideWeapon  !FGD

If this weapon is being held, hide the worldmodel and/or viewmodel via EF_NODRAW. Weapon will still be useable. The weapon will become visible again if the holder is to switch between weapons in their inventory.

Outputs

OnNPCPickup

Fires when an NPC picks up this weapon. (!activator is the NPC.)

OnPlayerUse

Fires when the player +uses this weapon. (!activator is the player.)

OnPlayerPickup

Fires when a player picks up this weapon. (!activator is the player.)

OnCacheInteraction

Fires when the player 'proves' they've found this weapon. Fires on: Player Touch, +USE pickup, Physcannon pickup, Physcannon punt.