my swep isnt appreaing in my spawn menu!

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ive followed all the steps my friend said to me but i cant get it to show ingame!

heres my lua. please tell me if theres anything wrong with it

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wy do Yoe define primaryattack Toow times?

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oh i did

im just typing on a template

because i am that one patrick gif

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-s-patrick-patrick-star-bottle-dumb-gif-1741625486363070335

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are there any problems wuth the lua apart from that/

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aand hes gone

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Do you have the correct folder structure?

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garrysmod/addons/mod/models,sound,lua etc

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where do you have the weapons folder?

in your addon

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which isin the mod folder

gtg

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it must be like this garrysmod\addons\youraddonname\lua\weapons

[viral wasp]

for lua help like this you should ask #lua-help, not #994186967803768883 , you're more likely to get lua help in #lua-help

also the problem is that you forgot to put the function keyword when defining the SWEP:Reload() function

when you have a lua problem like this you should also check your console or problems menu for errors

because most of the time an error will appear there telling you where the issue in your code is

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i wasnt at my computer

this is correct right?

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done now thanks

[viral wasp]

yes, though the weapons folder is usually all lowercase, but im not sure if that matters

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il fix that anyway

lets see if it works now :3

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lowkey its not apearing ingame still

[viral wasp]

have you restarted gmod

you might need to

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yes twin i did

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does the problems menu say anything

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oh

it does

whatevfer this means

[viral wasp]

you never fixed the Reload() syntax error i talked about

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didnt save the lua lol

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o lol

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like this right?

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yes

does it work

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ok so its working but if you ignore the big ass of my pm, you may knotice the BLYATTTTTT sign

i can fix it easy

ok now it fixed but not rlly

camera between loona thighs!11!11!

which isnt good

i should be there, not the thighs

also the hands should be as if its holding the camera item

not the pistol

also it seems to have a very high fire rate

also lowkey whenever i try to take a picture of my family they get mowed down by bullets 🙁

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lol

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yeah cuz the code makes it fire faster the longer it fires or something

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hmmm il look at the lua

idk

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if u didnt know im trying to make a camera

not a gun

that acts the same as the camera item

[rose cove]

What the actual fuck

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nah nah if you just ignore the thighs

lowkey

https://tenor.com/view/raven-team-leader-wario-jumpscare-cake-gif-15917196671260311340

am i being stupid again

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uhgh 🙁

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yo man is it ok if u can help me more

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?

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i cant get the sound to play

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also its not taking pictures, its lowkey swiss cheesing eveyrthing in its sight

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also em this

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try removing the "sound/" prefix from the path

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like this?

my camera gun whatever it it at this stage is rlly quiet like fahhhh as if the sound isnt loading still

[viral wasp]

so is it not playing or is it really quiet

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its not playing

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is there anything in console when it tries to play

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il check again

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no errors

no lua errors

genuinely idk what im doing wrong vro

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try entering play camerasfx/MavicaTakerPicture.mp3 in console

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oh mh god

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and see if that plays it

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I SPELT IT WRONG

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oh

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nah im so stupid bro sorry

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if that was the problem ima go crazy

it was

thx for making me realise

could you look in the lua and look at what controlls the trype of projectile and the fire rate?

i just want 1 click = 1 picture not 1 clock = 10 round burst of 9mm

[viral wasp]

you control what happens when you left click with the PrimaryAttack function

it fires bullets because of the FireBullets function being used in there

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what do i need to change?

[viral wasp]

remove the code that fires bullets and replace it with code that takes a picture

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what do i uhh type

sorry for being rlly annoinggg

you have been alot of help so far

[rose cove]

as in like the camera swep?

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yes twin

i got chatgpt to help me out lowkey

it can take pictures now

but lowkey uhh the camera model is between the pms legs

an also it looks like the pm is holding a pistol, not a camera

lowkey all these ppl saying 1 thing and the dissapearing making me bug out

its inside him

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😭 bro

what the fuck is that furry model

🥀

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r u gonna help or r u just gonna say "wow this guy is shit at coding " and leave

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nah nah is not furry is guy from watch dogs

lowk ur blind

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.

looks like you got the weapon swep working tho

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/741289350284836874/1443994857012985967/can-we-get-this-kirk-checked.gif

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yessss

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yea its because of your lua code

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yea but it seems to be defaulting to pistol hold type

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yea

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Check the rest of your code if you dont change that somewhere

like on picture taken

or smthing like that

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wanna look at my lua?

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eh sure

why not

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part of it is moded by chatgpt

thats how i got it to actually take a picture

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https://tenor.com/view/what-is-diddy-blud-doing-does-he-think-he-is-einstein-wowupatree-gif-14149449405818577507

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Why are you doing SWEP.HoldType = "camera"?

when you do that here basically : function SWEP:Initialize()
self:SetHoldType("camera")
end

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https://tenor.com/view/how-i-keep-the-rent-low-in-my-neighbourhoo-chief-keef-gif-5043739507113617112

testing it now

uhhh

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But i think the main issue is with the model

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its not apearing in my game anymore

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thats weird but the main issue is with the model because if you use: models/maxofs2d/camera.mdl

it looks as it should

by that i mean it appears in his hands

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your code makes the lua just not apear ingame

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should it be v_camera.mdl instead?

viewmodel etc

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Usually yeah for example the smg looks like this in the lua code: SWEP.ViewModel = Model( "models/weapons/c_smg1.mdl" )
SWEP.WorldModel = Model( "models/weapons/w_smg1.mdl" ) but the camera is a w_model just not named like so

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do i need to rename all of these with a w_ at the beggining or do i need to do only the .mdl file

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basically this is how it looks if you use it ingame like so:

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do i?

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this good?

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Well you can try but im quite sure that wont work

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well what do i need to do?

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how did you make the model?

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blender and uhhh

compiler thing

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because the mistake was made in the making of the model

there is no issue with the code

that would like cause this

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ok so whats the issue

cuz lowkey im tweaking

i didd everything fine. it appears ingame as a phys prop

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The issue is with where the model’s origin is located in Blender

most likely

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Yea because it doesnt affect the model if its a prop

but since you are trying to put it into players hand

like an swep

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the origin is deadass in the center

of everything

leme boot up blender

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then the issue is in compiling

Might want to ask in modelling if that doesnt solve it / you cant find the issue

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https://tenor.com/view/иди-и-смотри-come-and-see-флёра-gif-6614181645159923836

ok 🙂

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the center

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actaully could you take a better picture of this?

like where the camera is

Did you manage to fix the SetHoldType?

because with this code it seems to be working for me

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no

the code u send me broke the lua

and it didnt apear ingame

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ight

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try throwing the lua code into here: Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\lua\weapons

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ight i will...#

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what do i rename this to

gun.lua?

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it can be named anything

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kk

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so?

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ur one works

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yea and now try to put in your model

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ight

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SWEP.ViewModel = "models/maxofs2d/camera.mdl"
SWEP.WorldModel = "models/maxofs2d/camera.mdl"

replace here

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kk

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PROGRESS

https://tenor.com/view/our-brains-our-brains-are-our-brains-are-stinking-stinking-gif-1141374799563591806

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okay the next issue could be this: function SWEP:DrawWorldModel()
local owner = self:GetOwner()

if IsValid(owner) then
    local bone = owner:LookupBone("ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Hand")
    if not bone then return end

    local pos, ang = owner:GetBonePosition(bone)

    -- BEGIN CAMERA-LIKE OFFSETS (tuned for handheld cameras)
    ang:RotateAroundAxis(ang:Right(), 90)     -- rotate to face forward
    ang:RotateAroundAxis(ang:Up(), 10)        -- small correction
    ang:RotateAroundAxis(ang:Forward(), 180)  -- upside-down fix

    pos = pos + ang:Forward() * 4
    pos = pos + ang:Right() * 1.5
    pos = pos + ang:Up() * -2
    -- END OFFSETS

    self:SetRenderOrigin(pos)
    self:SetRenderAngles(ang)
    self:DrawModel()
else
    self:DrawModel()
end

end

try removing that and see what it does

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ight

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its back in the stomach

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okay then keep that and modify the values

in the code

until you get desired effect

i guess

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ight

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can i not do it in real time

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not aware of a way

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or do i have to edit lua - reopen game and wait foir it to load, test it and its not right- repeat

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/741289350284836874/1443994857012985967/can-we-get-this-kirk-checked.gif

il aslk in dev general

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you dont have to

just rejoin the game

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oh rlly?

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yea

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i was just reopening it

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you can just type retry into console