Able to hide weapon and body?

[devilboy643]

Well I am currently almost finished with this E2 that makes it so when you crouch, a holographic box covers your body, like in metal gear. Well anyways, when I crouch, the hologram shows, my body goes invisible, but my weapon shows. Is there anyway to cloak my weapon when i crouch, and it uncloaks when i uncrouch.

Here is the code if you need it...

@name Stealth Box
@persist A 
runOnTick(1)

if ( first() ) {
    holoCreate(1)
}
if ( owner():isCrouch() ) {
    A=255
}

else {
   A=0
}
   

holoModel(1,"cube")
holoScale(1,vec(3,3,3))
holoParent(1,entity())
holoMaterial(1,"phoenix_storms/fender_wood")
holoPos(1,owner():pos()+vec(0,0,19))
holoAlpha(1,A)

if (A==255) {
    owner():setColor(0,0,0)
    owner():setMaterial("Models/effects/vol_light001")
}
 



elseif (A==0) {
    owner():setColor(255,255,255)
    owner():setMaterial("")
}

[Wodden]

owner():weapon():setMaterial("Models/effects/vol_light001")

[devilboy643]

I tried that before you suggested it. When I add that, whenever I crouch it shows and when I stand up it disapears.

[Wodden]

Maybe because you are switching weapons. If you "cloak" the physgun, all other weapons are visible.
You could use a foreach loop and an array of all weapon names to turn all weapons visible/invisible.

@persist Weps:array

#Set up teh array
Weps:pushString("weapon_physcannon")
Weps:pushString("weapon_physgun")
Weps:pushString("weapon_pistol")
Weps:pushString("weapon_357")
Weps:pushString("weapon_smg1")
Weps:pushString("weapon_crossbow")
Weps:pushString("weapon_shotgun")
Weps:pushString("weapon_ar2")
Weps:pushString("weapon_frag")
Weps:pushString("weapon_rpg")
Weps:pushString("weapon_crowbar")
Weps:pushString("gmod_tool")
Weps:pushString("gmod_camera")

#Turn every weapon visible/invisible
foreach(K,V:string=Weps){
    owner():weapon(V):setMaterial("models/effects/vol_light001")
    #owner():weapon(V):setMaterial("")
}

Something like that.

[devilboy643]

Didnt help

[WeeZy]

is there anyone who would know how to do it? both ways dont work

p.s. this is devilboy643

[Drunkie]

Setting the material to models/effects/vol_light001 works, I don't know what you're doing wrong.

[WeeZy]

I think you cant hide your body and weapon.

[Mr G]

YOUR DOING IT WRONG!

You cant setAlpha on players I believe.

[Colonel Thirty Two]

Revision 2205
[E2] setAlpha now works on the owner's weapons,
setColor(N,N,N,N) and it's variants now affect the alpha of the owner's weapons.

Don't think vol_light can be applied to >1 entity, so you can use vol_light on yourself and setAlpha on your weapon.