Life Support Addon

[seth1010]

I was thinking of making an addon (non wire related) but I need that console command that allows you to change the model of lifesupport tanks and other spacebuild related entities. I have seen people with nano chips as their storage generators, and I have seen the command line that allows you to do it. With a small model pack that I am working on I would like the opporitunity to use my models ingame.

Thanks!
Šeth

P.S. Tad2020, you worked on spacebuild, you have to know this!

[Free Fall]

Hah! changing Models of those things is just a trick. The STool got an model-CVar, which you can change in console.

should be
"energysystems_model <model you want>" for generators
"life_support_model <model you want>" for the environment stuff
"receptacles_model <model you want>" for the storage things

Or you have to edit the Life-Support STool or even make own ones. Making own Life-Support STool is pretty easy, because the RD2 Library contains a command, so it takes most of the work. just look at the code from the existing ones.

Good luck for your addon

[seth1010]

So would the command "receptales_model ty/test.mdl" change the model of all storage devices to test.mdl?

[Free Fall]

So would the command "receptales_model ty/test.mdl" change the model of all storage devices to test.mdl?

Well, not of all. just for the one you selected. As i said: It's only a trick, and not the normal way. Because every time you click on another entry in the list, the model Client_ConVar is set to the model of it.
So, if you really want your models in the list, or use them easily, you would have to code a new sent or modify the old ones

[Xandu]

And changing the model of all storage related ones makes them not work anymore. The size of the container is set by the model of it (lua checks which model it is, then sets the size) So changing the model there won't do you any good unless you set the size of it too which, I believe, can't be done in console.

[seth1010]

Well, not of all. just for the one you selected. As i said: It's only a trick, and not the normal way. Because every time you click on another entry in the list, the model Client_ConVar is set to the model of it.
So, if you really want your models in the list, or use them easily, you would have to code a new sent or modify the old ones

I guess I am not doing this right. I used the string in the console and absolutely nothing happened. I was trying to change the model of the large storage cache to a phx block just to test. Knowing nothing more I typed "receptacles_model (the path to the block)" and nothing happened. I must be missing something and I dont understand what you meant by "the one you selected. "

[Xandu]

Once you select storage from the life support menu, and select the storage you want you will get the tool gun which will spawn the selected storage. At the moment you have your tool gun, type one of those lines in console, spawn the storage and it'll have the new model. But do note storage doesn't work after that anymore, generators do work.

[seth1010]

Once you select storage from the life support menu, and select the storage you want you will get the tool gun which will spawn the selected storage. At the moment you have your tool gun, type one of those lines in console, spawn the storage and it'll have the new model. But do note storage doesn't work after that anymore, generators do work.

Thanks a bunch! I tried it and it works. Now for the lua coding...

[seth1010]

Alright, thanks so much for your help on the last lua help, but now my VGUI has gone horribly wrong! My Test VGUI (made for testing purposes(thats why its small)) will only show up when you are in the menu i.e. when you press esc.

My code if you want it is here.

function TestVGUI( )
local worldpanel = vgui.GetWorldPanel();

worldpanel:SetVisible( true );
worldpanel:MakePopup( );

local frame = vgui.Create( "Frame", worldpanel ); //Create a frame

Frame:SetSize( 200, 200 ); //Set the size to 200x200
Frame:SetPos( 100, 100 ); //Move the frame to 100,100
Frame:SetVisible( true ); //Visible
Frame:MakePopup( ); //Make the frame
Frame:PostMessage( "SetTitle", "text", "Vgui Test" ); //Set the title to "This is the title"

local button = vgui.Create( "Button", frame ); //Create a button that is attached to Frame

Button:SetText( "Toggle noclip" ); //Set the button's text to "Click me!"
Button:SetPos( 30, 5 ); //Set the button's position relative to it's parent(Frame)
Button:SetWide( 100 ); //Sets the width of the button you're making

function buttonoClick( )
RunConsoleCommand("noclip"); //This is called when the button is clicked
self:SetText( "Clicked" ); //Set the text to "Clicked"
end
end

concommand.Add( "testvgui", TestVGUI );

If you can help me by getting this to pop up on you hud when you type a command in console that would be great.

Thanks,
Seth

[snakesvx]

Well remove the WorldPanel stuff

That's probably what's causing it. You don't have to give a parent.

So: local frame= vgui.Create( "Frame")
instead of what you got.

Not sure if it will work, but in all the menu's I made I never used GetWorldPanel().