Portalgun animation question

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BenVlodgi
633 Posts
#69148
Posted Mar 30, 2012
Hey everyone,
I wanted to know if there was a way I could trigger certain portalgun animations to happen, while I was hold the gun, so I would like to know if there is a console command or some targetname + animation name I could trigger to make this happen
thanks :biggrin:
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#69172
Posted Mar 31, 2012
Replied 6 hours later
Technically the portal gun the player is holding is just weapon_portalgun, therefore you can trigger any outputs etc. you can do on a weapon_portalgun on the ground.
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CamBen
973 Posts
#69187
Posted Mar 31, 2012
Replied 4 hours later

chickenmobile wrote:
Technically the portal gun the player is holding is just weapon_portalgun, therefore you can trigger any outputs etc. you can do on a weapon_portalgun on the ground.

also, if you need the firing anim, just make the I/O so:

when this happens, fire orange portal 0.50

when this happens (same thing), activate an invisible fizzler/portal detecter that kills portals that is parented to the gun, in front of the gun. 0.00

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gallardo
85 Posts
#99699
Posted Sep 22, 2013
Replied 1 year later
does it still work?
I tried giving a name to the portalgun on ground, but after being grabbed, I/O dont work.
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#99703
Posted Sep 22, 2013
Replied 1 hour later
This is an old topic, but...

ChickenMobile wrote:
Technically the portal gun the player is holding is just weapon_portalgun, therefore you can trigger any outputs etc. you can do on a weapon_portalgun on the ground.

No you can't. The weapon_portalgun is destroyed and replaced by a viewmodel entity, which as far as I can tell accepts every input a prop_dynamic does EXCEPT the ones to run animations. That's why I use prop_dynamics for the Multitool; I can SetModel the viewmodel to something else, but I can't make it animate.

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gallardo
85 Posts
#99706
Posted Sep 22, 2013
Replied 36 minutes later
I was more interested in making the portalgun fire when I say so.
Parenting another one to the player? maybe, but I bet it will be difficult to pair the aim direction.
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#99707
Posted Sep 22, 2013
Replied 11 minutes later
Use a point_clientcommand in that case buddy.
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gallardo
85 Posts
#99709
Posted Sep 22, 2013
Replied 18 minutes later
thanks mr wolf
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josepezdj
2,386 Posts
#99733
Posted Sep 23, 2013
Replied 17 hours later

gallardo wrote:
thanks mr wolf

:biggrin: like in Pulp Fiction?

FelixGriffin wrote:
No you can't. The weapon_portalgun is destroyed and replaced by a viewmodel entity, which as far as I can tell accepts every input a prop_dynamic does EXCEPT the ones to run animations. That's why I use prop_dynamics for the Multitool; I can SetModel the viewmodel to something else, but I can't make it animate.

Correct, as far as I've tested the weapon_portalgun stops being so after it's grabbed by the player, becoming the viewmodel version and sort of part of the player herself... that's why I haven't ever been able to use the SetModel function with it... so, Felix, what exactly are you suggesting to use the SetModel function with the viewmodel gun?

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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#99737
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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I was playing around and discovered that typing "ent_fire viewmodel " will (unlike with most classnames) make Portal 2 suggest a list of inputs. I tried RunScriptCode self.SetModel(something); and it worked.
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josepezdj
2,386 Posts
#99738
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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Nice! Thanks for sharing, mate :thumbup: I'll play around with it.
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#99740
Posted Sep 23, 2013
Replied 11 minutes later
No problem. But remember that you can't embed strings in RunScriptCode, the full code I used was longer and involved calling a function added through RunScriptFile. I abbreviated for simplicity.
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BenVlodgi
633 Posts
#99741
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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yah, I never got this to work, if anyone has any viable solution I am still interested :smile:
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#99743
Posted Sep 23, 2013
Replied 1 hour later
Sorry, I don't think there is. VALVe didn't expose the generic SetAnimation function from the CBaseAnimating class to Squirrel, so I can check if it's finished its main animation and change its bodygroups but not start a new sequence playing. :sad:
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Tmast98
210 Posts
#99748
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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Hey,

By animate do you mean the pick up/take off GLaDOS animations from the offical campaign?

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