Buu342's Weapon Base
Released: March 18, 2021
Tags: Lua, SWEP
In Garry's Mod, there exists a concept known as "Weapon Bases", which is basically a parent weapon class for other weapons to inherit from. As I have spent a lot of time writing scripted weapons (SWEPs) for Garry's Mod, I wrote my own SWEP base called Buu342's Weapon Base. This weapon base was used in a lot of my earlier weapon packs, but it was ultimately quite flaky and I chose to rewrite it from scratch instead of accruing even more technical debt. I have been using the weapon base for personal projects for quite a few years, but I ended up publicly releasing it in 2021 for other people to use as I considered it to be in a satisfactory state.
My weapon base, on top of being heavily documented, features:
- Full clientside prediction so that laggy players have the best experience
- Shotgun reloading
- Sniper scope with swaying
- Ironsights
- Dynamic LUA-based animations for viewmodel sprinting, near-walls, jumping, walking, idling, breathing, and swaying
- Barrel smoke trail
- Low ammo clicking
- Support for weapon attachments, such as silencers
- Multiple crosshairs, customizable too
- Firemode switching, including built-in burst-fire mode
- Run sliding
- Laser pointer that respects distance to walls (Also in thirdperson)
- Flashlight that follows the gun's barrel (Also in thirdperson)
- Clientside magazine dropping
- Holding breath while scoping to steady the aim
- Shotgun door destruction
- Lots of clientside and serverside settings
- Thirdperson animations
This SWEP base is used in both my RAGE SWEPs and my Dead Space Plasma Cutter addons.
