Changing weapon holdtype on secondary attack?

[Spacew00t]

I've been trying to get my sweps to look holstered in 3rd person by setting their holdtype to normal when secondary attack is pressed. this is what I have so far.

[lua]
function holsterWep() --this is always true for testing purposes
return true
end

function SWEP:SecondaryAttack()

if holsterWep() == true then

self:SetWeaponHoldType( "normal" )

end
end
[/lua]

Problem is, nothing happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that hold type can only be set on initialization. If so, is there anyway around that?

[_Kilburn]

It has to be done on both the server and the client. When playing singleplayer, if I remember correctly, a few weapon hooks such as PrimaryAttack and SecondaryAttack are not called clientside as they should be.

Try it on a listen server, if it works, then you'll need to force your weapon to call SecondaryAttack clientside if SinglePlayer() is true.

This will be helpful:
[b][url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Weapon.CallOnClient]Weapon.CallOnClient [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]
[b][url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.SinglePlayer]G.SinglePlayer [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]

[Spacew00t]

Holy crap, it works on multiplayer, thanks! I never thought it would matter that I was testing on singleplayer. Since I only plan to use it on my server, can I just leave it as is? Or will that cause other problems?

[_Kilburn]

Nah, don't bother fixing it for singleplayer if it works fine on your server, it shouldn't cause any problem.

[Spacew00t]

Thanks again!