Spawn weapons on demand

Does anyone know how to spawn weapons/items when triggered? The only way I can think of right now is to make an invisible func_breakable, but these create gibs and sound when broken. I want the weapons to drop to the floor, so a game_player_equip isn't really feasible (it also can't be parented or enabled/disabled...)

What if you had the weapons in glass boxes so the player could see but
not touch, at the push of a button the bottom of this glass box
(func_door) opens, and the weapon drops down..... it'll be like a
vending machine :biggrin:

there is a prefab at PFL. unseth made it. when you open the door an item spawns, close it and open it again, a different item spawns.

at least, thats what i was informed of. perhaps you can adapt the idea from HL1 to HL2?

Well, I had a look at it and it uses a monster_maker to spawn weapons.

Unfortunately, it would seem that trying to get an npc_maker to spawn a weapon causes the game to crash :sad:

Use point_template and env_entity_maker.

You make your inital entity, and set the "Template XX" field of a point_template to it's name.

Then you set the env_entity_maker's "Point_template to spawn" to the
name of the point_template, and you can fire the env_entity_maker's
"ForceSpawn" input to spawn an item.

Works with every entity I tried with it, anyway. Weapons, oilbarrels, rollermines, etc.

What's really cool is you can spawn mutiple entites at once (using the various

Template fields of point_template), and they'll keep working.

i.e. you can spawn a func_physbox that has a phys_thruster and an
env_spark parented to it, and all I/O connections etc. will still work.

Excellent, thanks :smile: This will even help with my Combine prison pod problems!

The only problem is that the weapons will keep respawning, but that can be easily fixed with some sort of trigger that kills them soon after.