My modification of the breakable props stool made by Conna

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I’ve decided to modify Conna’s breakable props stool. This has taken me months with a lot of help from friends. It is also my first project so don’t be too harsh on me.

“What’s different from this and the original tool?”

  • New effects
  • Gcombat style die effect but with new effects
  • Better colour code
  • Sounds
  • Multiplier slider
  • Explosion damage(toggleable): props explode when they die. This can cause awesome chain reactions.
  • New particles (The same one Jinto’s using for his WIP nuke)
  • Vehicles can be breakable (Using a very hacky method, but hey, it works. Also toggleable)
  • Debris is scaled according to the size of the prop.
  • Sound pitch is pitched according to the size of the prop.
  • More debris is spawned if the prop is larger.
  • Preset box

Some screenshots:

http://www.cubeupload.com/files/d7c8a1gmflatgrassrevolution002.jpg

http://www.cubeupload.com/files/655f9gmflatgrassrevolution0030.jpg

http://www.cubeupload.com/files/b9cebbgmflatgrassrevolution003.jpg

The major part is new effects, though. I’ve been working a lot on it and I’ve added debris and shit. Here’s a video

old
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwFz4O1JOw

I’m making a thread here because there’s a few bugs I want to fix. But I have no idea how to fix them.

Current bugs:

  • Undo doesn’t undo from the undo list when the prop breaks
  • If you apply this on a contraption with too many constraints it won’t apply properly

http://www.garrysmod.org/img/?t=dll&id=51081

Thanks to:

Qiler
Robbis
BlackNecro
The Mathias
TetaBonita
Xenon
Q42 (for his gcombat code)
Maurice

for helping me out

#2

Very nice :smiley:

You should check some of the other SWEPs/SEnts for the undo bug.

#3

Great modification! Definatly going on my server!

One thing though, you should remove the alerts that come up when you make a prop breakable.

They’re crap, I should have never added them.

#4

Wow, that is awesome! :smiley:

#5

This is the first modification that doesn’t deserve the name of which.
Very well done.

Edit:

I loved when you hit the heli and the rotor went flying.

Edit:

And when you bashed the scanner’s brains out.

#6

That video is pretty good, nice job. I’m making Arkantos run this on his server when he hosts again :).

#7

Awesome effects :smiley:

#8

I am so getting this, It will be awesome for my movies.

#9

Thanks guys.

I’m trying to figure out how to do the undo thing. I have no idea where to start. :\

#10

Basically you start with undo.Create(<undo name>) and keep adding shit with undo.AddEntity(<the ent>) before doing undo.SetPlayer(<the player that can undo>) followed by undo.Finish()

#11

I think that part is already in the code. The problem is that the undo doesn’t undo when the prop dies.

Edit:

So you end up having lots of undo’s in your undo list.

#12

I’ve been seeing this in many versions on your server, I love it! Glad you released it, and I really like the new effects. But I still want firetrails before the prop ‘Dies’. RPGing my numerous aircraft with this is immensly fun!

#13

I’ll try to make the firetrail fade in when the hp is critical.

#14

Wow those effects look really good!
Will come in handy when making fights.

#15

If you ever decide to make a version that applies breakable to ALL props on the server, I’d love to have a copy.

#16

Unfortunately, this tool doesn’t work with the advanced duplicator tool, just like Conna’s. Could that feature be incorporated?

#17

I’m not experienced enough to do that I think.

#18

It’s awesome. Could you make a command so that this is put on all props automatically when you spawn them?

Like

sbox_breakable 1 - Would make all props breakable

and

Sbox_breakable 0 - Would turn off the breakable props.

#19

The ban hammer in the video is funny :smiley:

Good job.

#20

I’m still working on this by the way. ZpankR joined so he’ll be working on it as well. We’re open for suggestions.

So far we’ve added

  • Explosion damage(toggleable): props explode when they die. This can cause awesome chain reactions.
  • New particles (The same one Jinto’s using for his WIP nuke)
  • Vehicles can be breakable (Using a very hacky method, but hey, it works. Also toggleable)
  • Debris is now scaled according to the size of the prop.
  • Sound pitch is pitched according to the size of the prop.
  • More debris is spawned if the prop is larger.

I’ll also upload a new video soon as well.