Custom weapon skins

[Nessaj1]

Hello,

I want to use custom weapon skins.
It should be the following:

- People can buy a deagle skin in pointshop
- They equip this pointshop item
- They equip a weapon and get this new weapon skin

I tried to write a function in the deagle script but the world model of the deagle looks very wired, also if you equip a deagle you get a normal usp skin and this error
[ERROR] gamemodes/terrortown/entities/weapons/weapon_zm_revolver.lua:163: attempt to index global 'SWEP' (a nil value)

Here is the important part:

function SWEP:Equip(ply)
if ply:PS_HasItem('deagle') then
SWEP.ViewModel = "models/weapons/v_pist_deagon.mdl"
SWEP.WorldModel = "models/weapons/w_pist_deagon.mdl"
else
SWEP.ViewModel = "models/weapons/cstrike/c_pist_deagle.mdl"
SWEP.WorldModel = "models/weapons/w_pist_deagle.mdl"
end
end

It is not possible to use this function like I did?

[Acecool]

SWEP is an initiator variable, kind of like GM. They're only used on game-mode startup.

Change SWEP inside of any functions to self, so self.ViewModel, etc... Although you shouldn't need to set the view-model every time someone equips the weapon ( there are fallbacks for CSS models too, so if a client doesn't have them, they'll automatically use a lower-quality model ).

[Nessaj1]

Ah okay it works if I switch the SWEP to self, thank you. I will mark this thread as solved =)