adding weapons

Hi im making a DM map and i want to have weapons obviously, there are no tuts i can find on doin this, can anyone help me? i jus want floor based weapon pickups, cheers

There isn't an official FGD file (the file that specifies the entities
available for a game) for Half-Life 2 yet, just CS:S. This means that
you can't do things like place weapons, unless you find an unofficial
FGD file or write your own. I recommend you just wait for the official
full SDK to make its appearance, shouldn't be long now.

Oh and you know there is no HL2DM mode right? It can be done but the support for it is horrible.

cheers reno, thought that was the case. There will be a HL2DM in the end whether or not valve do it, the SDK is supposedly out this week is it not?

Yup the full SDK should be out very soon now. There are a number of fan
based DM mods being made for HL2, including Adrenaline Gamer 2, HL2DM,
some German one that somebody posted a link to the other day, and
probably dozens more :biggrin:

The way I placed weapons was to create an entity(any entity) change its Class name to whatever you want ie - weapon_357 or item_ammo_357_large. It worked for me but im not sure if it depends on your setup. Try it and tell us :smile:

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hey yeah speaking of weapon placement in hl2, i want to make a deathmatch map (almost done) and ive placed all the weapons only when you pick them up, they dont respawn. the ammo does but the weapons never ever respawn, so as you can imagine on the net, it would get pretty boring pretty quick can anyone who reads this help me here?

help :eek: plz plz plz i cant wait till this gets finished

Check to see if your weapons are buried in the floor or wall. Sometimes when this happens the engine will draw them once, but then when the respawn they "fall out of the world".

Note: If you've turned or rolled the weapon, the model may show that it is above the surface in the 3D view, but in the 2d views you'll see a "phantom outline" on the original entity position. This phantom outline must also not cross into any surfaces.

Hope that helps.

thanks dude, that completely fixed it, its the simple things that trick ya :kitty: ... thnx again