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Getting round disappearing guns! by W*

NOTE: This tutorial WAS created, thought up and made by W* (all writing, screen shots etc.), ElmerFudd had the same idea on another website, however has nothing to do with creating this tutorial.

You got a good map made, perhaps an fy_somin – but your guns dispear after a few seconds? – This is a bug in the new source updates, however it can be got round using spawning:

Basicly put:

Create a weapon as usual,

Create a point_template,

Activate it with a trigger,

Copy of original weapon is spawned.

Here we go:

Create a weapon on the level somewhere (tutorial by Emphar explains this well: Found here )

Name the weapon: e.g. Deagle1

After you have this sorted, create an entity point_template this will be the point at which the gun spawns (name it watever you want.)

Next set template 1 to the gun you want spawned at this location:

So now when the “forcespawn” output of this point_template is triggered a Deagle will be spawned at this position.

At this point any trigger will suffice, you could use a button or a large ‘trigger when touched’ brush, personally I am currently making a HE map, so I wanted the grenades to spawn on a timer.

To make this work I used a Logic_timer entity set at a 3 second interval:

After this you simply add an output that activates ‘forcespawn’:

This should now spawn deagles every 3 seconds!

Until the bugs fixed – hope this helps.

W*

ElmerFudd would you please stop changing my tutorial to claim that you made it - you did not make any part of it, please stop taking credit for my work. thank you.

this tutorial is no longer needed. Weapons no longer disappear.