Weapon physgun

This entity is Obsolete. Its use is discouraged, and it may only exist/function in older engine branches.

weapon_physgun is a cut point entity from the Half-Life 2 series, available in SMOD: Redux and , Garry's Mod (by default) too.

Entity Description

Not to be confused with weapon_physcannon. Essentially a long range gravity gun, it could manipulate objects from afar with a laser beam or weld objects together with the alt-fire.

Mods such as Garry's Mod re-add the Physgun, but lose the alt-fire and use the upgraded gravity gun model rather than the cut Physgun model.

Keyvalues

BaseFadeProp:

Start Fade Dist (fademindist) <float>

Distance at which the entity starts to fade.

End Fade Dist (fademaxdist) <float>

Max fade distance at which the entity is visible.

• If start fade is <0, the entity will disappear instantly when end fade is hit.
• If end fade is <0, the entity won't disappear at all. (This is the default behavior.)

The values will scale appropriately if the entity is in a 3D Skybox.

Fade Scale (fadescale) <float>

If you specify so in worldspawn, or if the engine is running below DirectX 8 (DX7 in ), props will fade out even if the fade distances above aren't specified. This value gives you some control over when this happens: numbers smaller than 1 cause the prop to fade out at further distances, while those greater than 1 cause it to fade out at closer distances. Using 0 turns off the forced fade altogether. See also the QC command $noforcedfade.

Garry's Mod keyvalues

GMODSandbox: Allow Physics Gun (gmod_allowphysgun) <boolean> (only in ) If set, players cannot use Physics Gun on this entity. Sandbox Tool Whitelist (gmod_allowtools) <string> (only in ) If set, only given tools can be used on this entity. You need to supply the tool class names, the names of the .lua files of those tools. This also includes the context menu properties!

Flags

•  [1] : Start Constrained
     Prevents the model from moving.
•  [2] : Deny player pickup (reserve for NPC)
•  [4] : Not puntable by Gravity Gun

Inputs

HideWeapon  !FGD

Hide weapon. It still remains functional.

Outputs

Weapon:

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.