Hide trails clientside?

[Speckma]

Any way that I can have a command that hides the pointshop trails clientside?

Not asking for you the code, but can someone lead me the right direction to get it going.

[CallMePyro]

Having never looked at the code for the pointshop trails... I'd go into the code for pointshops, and set a clientconvar to check before it draws/creates/doeswhatever to make the trails (something like "if !NoTrail then return end")

Then have a setting, check box or chat command that allows a player to change their convar.

[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index0eb7.html[/url]

This would done in a clientside file, and the checking for the convar would be done inside wherever the trail is drawn. You can return a client convar with the method "player:GetInfoNum( "convar", defaultvalueofconvar )

[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index6c81.html[/url]

That should point you in the right direction. Good luck!

[Rubat]

Impossible.

[CallMePyro]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;42945230]Impossible.[/QUOTE]

If the trail is an actual entity then yeah, it'd be impossible.

[Aide]

It's very possible.

[lua]
hook.Add("Think", "HideTrails", function()
for k, v in pairs(ents.FindByClass("env_spritetrail")) do
if LocalPlayer().HideTrails then
if v:GetOwner() != nil and type(v:GetParent()) == "Player" then
v:Remove()
elseif v:GetParent() != nil and type(v:GetParent()) == "Player" then
v:Remove()
end
end
end
end)
[/lua]

If for some odd reason remove doesn't work. Just set the value of the trails alpha to 0 and it will be invisible.

[Lenny.]

[QUOTE=Aide;42945671]

[lua]
hook.Add("Think", "HideTrails", function()
for k, v in pairs(ents.FindByClass("env_spritetrail")) do
if LocalPlayer().HideTrails then
if v:GetOwner() != nil and type(v:GetParent()) == "Player" then
v:Remove()
elseif v:GetParent() != nil and type(v:GetParent()) == "Player" then
v:Remove()
end
end
end
end)
[/lua]
[/QUOTE]

Please, don't run it every think...
Run it once and then use the OnEntityCreated hook.

[OzymandiasJ]

You can't remove server created entities. It will just error on you.

Instead, create the entities clientside so you can control them and remove clientside easily.