Grabber

[Razoul]

Any chance that in a future update you could make it so the Grabber could 'grab' an NPC or player? It would make a great defensive tool, the ranger is triggered, the grabber takes them and holds them. You can then decide what to do with them.

[kevkev]

If i m not mistaking u can do this with a forcer,
(its been removed you can find it somewhere on forums)

[tomb332]

you should be able to pickup NPC's i think. Also im not going to allow player picking up as that could lead to serious mingebag problems. Also why grabber? why not either, 1 shoot them 2 use a forcer to slam them into a wall 3 set them on fire 4 hit them with something really big.

[Razoul]

you should be able to pickup NPC's i think. Also im not going to allow player picking up as that could lead to serious mingebag problems. Also why grabber? why not either, 1 shoot them 2 use a forcer to slam them into a wall 3 set them on fire 4 hit them with something really big.[/b]

I was trying to make some sort of transporter system using the hoverdrive. I can send objects right now, but my limitation is on what the grabber can 'grab'. I understand what your saying about the minge problem, any suggestions on what I could do to make this system on my private server/single player games?

[tomb332]

very simple.
in wire/lua/entities/gmod_wire_grabber/init.lua
goto line 76.
it should look like this.

if (Â*Â*!trace.Entity:IsValid() || trace.Entity:IsPlayer() ) then return end

change it to this

if (Â*Â*!trace.Entity:IsValid()) then return end

that will stop it from bailing if it is a player and should allow you to pick them up but warning this is untested and may have adverse affects on the player.

[Razoul]

I tried removing that bit of code already, it didn't change anything.

[tomb332]

then thats really weird as it should be able to grab players as that code is what stops it grabbing players.

[itsbth]

I doubt you can weld players...

[tomb332]

that is an imperitive point.

[Elspin]

I'm pretty sure you can weld players. But I'm not sure if it would weld to ALL players, because all players are given the same name on join to the console: player.