I searched for "Addon Ideas" in the forum and found in here 2 Posts, one made 5 years ago, the other 8 years ago. So I guess the Ideas made there have already been made..or no one wants them anymore.
Anyway, I learned Lua ages ago now. I created 7 Addons so far, one of those became huge (for some reason), and since that, I never made an addon again. Why? Because I have no Idea for an Addon to be made. So I'm creating this Thread in case some people have addons ideas that other people might like as well. So here how it goes:
Write your Addon idea that you are not able to make yourself. Explain it, how its supposed to work and what it does. If that idea gets a certain amount of "Agree"/Green Checkmark, and if I like the idea as well I will start doing that. Simple as that. Also, the first addon that gets accepted here gets 20 Coins. I mean the person who posted that addon idea. So, let's see how it goes.
Because I sure didn't learn Lua in months just to stop now forever
Lasso ability from Bulletstorm. You look at a player/NPC/prop, you press the desired key you set up in the spawn menu, your character gets the lasso out, and pulls the desired target towards himself. Now, the objects and characters in Bulletstorm are in sort of a slow motion state after being pulled in by a player, but idk if its even a thing you can do in Gmod. Here are some pics:
https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/30/1358219-bulletstorm_screen_2.jpg
Enemy in the slow motion state:
https://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1560/15603561/3217159-bulletstormfce_screenshot06.png
Another pic of the lasso:
https://thedaytonight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bulletstorm-lasso.jpg
Sounds/Looks super hard to do. (Especially if you have no experience in making a player SWEP/Weapon. BUT in case i do that it would be a great exersice. Most of my addons got made because i wanted some exersize in that topic of gmod coding. And with the little experience i gained i continued the addon and made it a fully working thing. Into several things actually..
Just an idea but if you were to do that addon then you could take the phys gun and modify it to change the model to a hand and to make it so when the beam touches something instead of you being able to move it back and forth make it so it drags back at a slow rate and you can move him around..?
no idea what you mean tbh..
i mainly ment the last part, about dragging etc.
Drags back like it pulls the person back towards the character
Wheelchair punishment for TTT.
It would be kind of like a jail, except the admin that jails you would put you instead in a wheelchair in which you could not use any guns, you could just slowly "drive" your wheelchair but you could not walk up stairs.
Since the wheelchair itself would be a physics object, people could tip you over and you would be stuck until someone else would put you back on track.
Maybe another player could even take you for a walk, pushing your wheelchair slightly faster than your normal speed.
I got the idea watching this masterpiece :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgTzsGVux8I&t=415s
I have this idea for various non-damaging special effects. The basis is that it's like a more advanced version of the that bullet prop model. Laser blasts that create light for a example and can go from one end of the room to the other, fire that doesn't burn, characters with magical powers throwing fireballs you can place with the physgun, a non-damaging version of Rubat's lightsaber addon that can be used for ragdolls to stab each other with but don't harm players, or lightning arcing from one person's hand to another, much less fortunate person's entire body.
All of these are admittedly machinima focused and probably rely heavily on things like particle effects, so you might need someone to help make new particle effects or models for some of those ideas.
For something easier on the other hand you could also make an updated version of the Ragdoll mover tool, for some reason it didn't work on Black Mesa ragdolls last time I tried it with them. In fact you could look for some popular addons that haven't been updated and make updated versions. That'd probably make quite a few people happy to see old addons they like working again.
Worked on this idea hahah - wasn't too hard at all. I don't know if you should punish a user by putting them in a wheelchair though lmao
What about an addon that allows you to play youtube music via swep
tbh if its a swep, so for the player only; you ca just run the music in your browser...and if its for everyone to hear you can just use PlayX or media player, and it would br annoying
I've been looking for a spray paint swep that at least looks like spray paint when you use it on a wall, I've found one already made on the workshop that works but the decal limit ruins it completely. In this case I am looking for a spray paint swep that is able to bypass the decal limit and still look like spray paint. There is another one that I found on the workshop that seems to have a way of bypassing the decal limit but that's because it is not actually outputting decals and it doesn't look like spray paint at all when sprayed on a wall.
Something to turn dupes into models. This is solely so I can show more of Machinecult's dupes in pictures.
I'm not sure if you can do this in gmod, but something that would let you adjust the bones/playermodel of a person sitting in a seat would be pretty nice. Something that would let you set custom sitting positions for a chair.
you can edit bones in gmod already, on players, npc, etc.
Sorry to bump an old thread but are you still looking for ideas? I've been trying to make a controllable CCTV addon but since I don't know Lua for the past few years all that's been done is mostly by other people, who obviously didn't do everything required. Currently I have code for controlling a camera and that's it. Would you be willing to help me finish it? What's your Steam name? If you'd like to help I'll add you and we can discuss this.
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