Flashlight Viewmodel?

[Cpl Bradley]

How would I go about making it so that when you activate your flashlight it shows a viewmodel, and hides it when you turn the flashlight off? I've already animated and compiled the model, so its ready to go.

[Cpl Bradley]

This is for the source engine if you can't tell.

[Jangalomph]

I guess... just do some kind of unholster kind of thing as they do in the weapon code?

[pk_hunter]

Would this be wielded with a weapon or separately?

[LordDz]

Make a new weapon, copy and paste the flashlight code in it ? instead of having "F" button you use the fire button to activate it.

[Surfa]

This is actually rather simple to do. You toggle the flash-light using the console command impulse 100 so if you a search for this in the code you should be able to find the section that toggles the flash-light when the button is pressed and then remove that and just place this code in the primary attack section of the weapon you make. Also to make it better and similar to how awesome it is in NMRiH create a bone at front of the model and attach the projected-texture for the flash-light to this in the code.

[Cpl Bradley]

Alright what I was originally gonna do is make it be able to draw while holding another weapon, but now it will be a completely separate weapon. Thanks for the advice.

[Cpl Bradley]

One more question, what would I use to make it run impulse 100 when the weapon draws?

[dark0r]

Just do something like:

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void MyWeapon::Deploy()
{
    GetPlayerOwner()->FlashlightOn();
}

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void MyWeapon::Holster()
{
    GetPlayerOwner()->FlashlightOff();
}

Simple. Then remove the "impulse 100" code so the player can't toggle flashlight on/off.

[Jordash]

This is a tutorial on the viewmodel attachment which surfa mentioned http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p?t=848105