Prop sphere

This entity is not in the FGD by default.
See below for instructions on making it available.

Template:Entity It is not in any of Valve's FGDs, however.

It is essentially a prop_physics with a perfectly spherical VPhysics collision model. If you want to create a spherical entity, it is far more efficient to use prop_sphere than try to create a spherical collision mesh!

In code, it is represented by theCPhysSphereclass, defined in theprops.cppfile.

Tip:The only spherical model in Half-Life 2 is models\combine_helicopter\helicopter_bomb01.mdl.

Bug:The collision mesh will not be visible with the vcollide_wireframe 1 command.  [todo tested in ?]

FGD Code

If you don't intend to make any changes to the entity's C++ code, use this:

@PointClass base(BasePropPhysics, RenderFields) studioprop() = prop_sphere : "Creates a perfect sphere."
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Extending prop_sphere

Visit this snippet, on how you can improve the existing prop_sphere code.

Keyvalues

Radius (radius) <float> (only in )

The radius for the sphere.

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RenderFields:

Render Mode (rendermode) <byte choices>

Set a non-standard rendering mode on this entity.

Render Modes

0: Normal 1: Color 2: Texture 3: Glow 4: Solid/Alphatest 5: Additive 6: Removed, does nothing 7: Additive Fractional Frame 8: Alpha Add 9: World Space Glow 10: Don't Render

Render FX (renderfx) <byte choices>

Various somewhat legacy alpha effects. See render effects.

Render Amount / Transparency (renderamt) <byte>

Transparency amount, requires a Render Mode other than Normal. 0 is invisible, 255 is fully visible.

Render Color (R G B) (rendercolor) <color255>

Color tint.

Flags

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Inputs

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RenderFields:

Alpha <integer 0–255>

Sets the entity's transparency to a number from 0 (invisible) to 255 (fully visible). Requires the entity to have its rendermode set to a number other than 0.

Color <color255RedirectInput/color32>

Sets an RGB color for the entity.

Outputs

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