Way to get material type/surface properties of entity clientside - Developers

I'm trying to figure out when a trace hits glass, however, some windows, like the ones in cs_office have a NoDraw on the backside, causing the trace's table to have MatType as MAT_CONCRETE and SurfaceProps as 0. This can be worked around serverside with Entity:GetMaterialType(), however, that is not available on the client.

This is probably no help whatsoever since the window probably isn't an entity with a model but I found that using [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/GetModelInfo]util.GetModelInfo[/url] clientside gives you the surface material for a model at some point in the table Also, why do you need to do a clientside trace rather than a networked one?

[QUOTE=MPan1;50859273]This is probably no help whatsoever since the window probably isn't an entity with a model but I found that using [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/GetModelInfo]util.GetModelInfo[/url] clientside gives you the surface material for a model at some point in the table Also, why do you need to do a clientside trace rather than a networked one?[/QUOTE] Entity's model returns *2 instead of **notexture**; never seen that before. And I need it clientside since it's in a predicted weapon context, so it can be ran multiple times.

Wait, so it actually did something? Wow, I didn't expect that... maybe try doing [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/GetSurfacePropName]util.GetSurfacePropName[/url] on that *2? You probably meant that it's a string with the characters '*' and '2' in it though

[QUOTE=MPan1;50859337]Wait, so it actually did something? Wow, I didn't expect that... maybe try doing [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/GetSurfacePropName]util.GetSurfacePropName[/url] on that *2? You probably meant that it's a string with the characters '*' and '2' in it though[/QUOTE] No, the GetMaterial string was "*2". The trace's SurfaceProps was still 0. [editline]10th August 2016[/editline] 2 is "metal_box" anyway.

[QUOTE=code_gs;50859347]No, the GetMaterial string was "*2."[/QUOTE] Is this a case of [url=http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Its-a-Different-Set-of-Rules]this[/url]? (just being nitpicky, ignore me)

[QUOTE=NeatNit;50859692]Is this a case of [url=http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Its-a-Different-Set-of-Rules]this[/url]? (just being nitpicky, ignore me)[/QUOTE] Yeah, you're right. English was not my first written language so I tend to follow grammar really strictly.

[QUOTE=code_gs;50859323]Entity's model returns *2 instead of **notexture**; never seen that before. And I need it clientside since it's in a predicted weapon context, so it can be ran multiple times.[/QUOTE] FYI, *2, *3 and stuff are map brush models. They are unique for each map (obviously).

Tracing past on HitNoDraw seems to be the only way