Weapon creation guides? Created 9 years ago2015-08-20 14:01:30 UTC by Kazemeka

Are there any good guides that shows how to create weapons? Like normal guides, not websites made out of C++ copypaste? And I do not accept copypaste as my weapons must work in a specific way that I will code later.

I know how you feel. I've searched for any general information guides on HL programming, but the only things I can find are useless copy/paste "tutorials". If anybody knows any HL programming guides, I'd love to know about them! There's nothing I can find even on the basic stuff, like client/server messaging, adding new entities, locating objects, AI scheduling, or any general architecture information.

It's all really specific stuff like: "make your gun glow in the dark: just paste this code in this file!". It's annoying how inefficient this stuff is - instead of someone writing some useful documentation, everyone's trying separately to read Valve's terrible code and trying to figure out how it works.

I haven't done a lot of HL programming, but for adding new weapons, the only thing I can suggest is: copy the weapon that's "closest" to the one you want to make, and then start modifying the code from there. But that's not very useful advice

Well then Ill have to contact some of the devs behind weapon mods.

And I cant do copypaste the closest weapon, because the weapon is a pile of books

So yeah, I need to learn how to code the weapon from sratch..

Please document anything you learn When I have time I would like to add a basic Goldsource coding guideline to TWHL's wiki, any info is useful!

Yes, I will ask the devs if I could use their knowledge to publish a guide on weapon building...

Off to filter the 10k mods out there!

EDIT: On the note of mods that contain custom weapons, there are not that many. Even then they are mostly re-skins. I found a few mods that contain custom weapons, that obviously needed coding, but I got around sending only two PMs on moddb because there is practically no way of contacting the authors (Either gone or dont have contact details or speak russian which I do not understand).

I've seen one decent tutorial on HL weapon coding somewhere deep in webarchive, tho you gotta find it yourself!:p

Bruce, what webarchive? Theres tons of them! A name would help.

that's a pretty epic source, Bruce, thanks!

Thanks bruce! You saved us some time!

Now off to read and work on animated keycards!

welcome

Scientist Hunt had a few cool custom weapons.

Yeah, but they are based on weapons that are already in game, except their values have changed..

What weapons do you want to add?
There's a few different base types that you can expand upon.

There's projectile weapons: grenades and crossbow
There's linetrace weapons (no travel time): pistols, rifles
Multi-shot linetrace weapons: shotguns

Surely your new weapon type would use something along those lines?

Wouldn't all that's necessary to be to copy-paste the code of another weapon, setting the model to use to the book viewmodel and straight out deleting all the attack and reload functions? I mean, it sounds so simple it must be doable.

yeah it should be but the weapon code is fucking EVERYWHERE
Not to mention you need ammo types and then the skill.cfg file

http://articles.thewavelength.net/183/

Lookin forward to your mod

Ok so I got it! I think I got it...

Nope, still crashes on start.

Basically im just doing some special "weapons". No copypaste needed, because you wont kill with it.

I think that at the end of autumn Ill do a demo video.