funCBaseFlex

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

Class hierarchy
CBaseFlex ↳CBaseAnimatingOverlay ↳CBaseAnimating ↳CBaseEntity
baseflex.cpp

funCBaseFlex is a point entity available in all Source games. Debug entity related to flexes, or possibly made an entity defined by mistake. Valve's remark in code: meaningless independant class!!

Description

This entity has a useful property, that it serves as a generic model entity that supports pose parameters and flexes properly. Other entities such as prop_dynamic do not support those and have visual glitches, or have side effects such as generic_actor.

Since this entity was never intended to be used, it requires special setup to spawn correctly. Example in VScript for Team Fortress 2:

function BaseFlexThink()
{
    self.StudioFrameAdvance()
    return -1
}

local entity = Entities.CreateByClassname("funCBaseFlex")
entity.SetModel("models/player/heavy.mdl")
entity.SetAbsOrigin(Vector(417, -326, -191))
entity.SetAbsAngles(QAngle(0, 90, 0))
entity.SetPlaybackRate(1.0)
entity.DispatchSpawn()
entity.EmitSound("Heavy.Cheers05")
AddThinkToEnt(entity, "BaseFlexThink")

See Also

• CBaseFlex
• Rendering and studio model related KIO