A tool for changing props mass.

Primary fire: Set weight, Secondary fire: Copy weight, Reload: Reset weight to original weight

Also has a nice bubble that tells you the current mass of a prop.



Update 1.21:

• Added duplicator support

Download 1.21:


Update 1.2:

• Reset feature is now using the reload function rather than running on "Think" (at the time it wasn't working)
• Cleaned up the code
• Changed to addon format

Note: I know it's annoying how the tips disappear behind for example wheel tips. If you ask me, those wheel tips should only appear when you're holding the tool gun with the correct mode (same with the outlines).

Update 1.11:

• Now compatible with the new STool system

• Mass can no longer be 0 or lower (can cause a crash)

Update 1.1:

• Fixed missing tooltracer and sound effects

• Reload now resets the weight back to normal

Update 1.001:

• Fixed console flood when player is dead.

Extract to your garrysmod\addons directory.

Nice man i need this for all my building purposes.

Thanks a lot! This will be very useful for building.
Also, please use garrysmod.org for your file hosting, Ihud sucks.

Sorry, I got pissed, because I had already compressed it in a RAR and garrysmod.org doesn't accept RAR files.

Edit:

Now it doesn't accept my zip files packed with WinRAR either.

Damn man, this is great!

SPOCO! YOUR IN GM10 LUA! Man, I can't even BEGIN to imagine things you will be making in the future.

Did you make the nice little "Time Spent on Server" thing?

Anywho, very useful little tool. Well done. :)

Godamn, everyone is making the stuff I've been workin' on.

Yes, I made Timespent script for GMod 9, and this one on the screenshot, I made today. Didn't release it yet, but I will if anyone wants it.

Doesn't work for me.. :( i really need help, i get the tool out, but it won't let me click an object and set the weight...some of my Stools don't work either....damn.

Check your console for any errors. This is probably related to some other script of yours.

Thanks a lot Spoco, downloaded :D

Good job :)

No console errors...:\

What is the directory folder? If the folder isn't called directory what is it called?

I
LOVE
YOU!

Awesome! I was going to start on something like this in a few days because I really dislike using hoverballs to counter heavy weight. You've saved me a lot of time that I can now spend messing around, thanks!

This comes up when i try to spawn thrusters:


LS: stools/thruster.lua:40: attempt to call method 'CheckLimit' (a nil value)

Can you please put this into a zip? My WinRAR does not work.

You probably have problems with the updates. You need to follow these instructions:

Done.

Why do I always make something and go into the Lua forum to find it's just been released. Damn you Spoco

God this is perfect. Expecialy if you make a flying hoverball fort! Nice Job.

Good thinking on making it switch to the stool when clicked though, gold star.

Indeed, many thanks for the tool switching code, that was a big help when I was struggling with the Wing Tool.

Might I suggest one change:

function ThinkWeightPanel()
    if flip == nil then 
        flip = true
        return
    end		
    if cpanel:IsVisible() then
        if flip then
            LocalPlayer():ConCommand("gmod_tool weight")
            flip = false
        end
    else
        flip = true
    end
end

That check I added at the top stops it from spamming the console with null variable errors when the player dies.

this will help me place a camra on a cs scanner so i can se what people are doing :D

Does this also apply for changing the weight of grouped things welded together or just each one individually?

No, that was not the cause. It was the client-side worldtip function that caused the error by accessing the player objects GetActiveWeapon and GetClass. When the player is dead, there is no active weapon so GetClass will fail trying to access a NULL entity.

But, I fixed that now, just download it again.

Works only on single objects at a time.

SWEET! thanks man!

Thanks, really nice mod & good idea :D

Brilliant, can make my flying objects now.

This should be very useful! I can't wait to try it out.

I downloaded and tried this out yesterday. Very useful! Thanks! :D

Ok, let me try that.

Yay, it worked. Thanks!

I tried this out yesterday and it worked very well, thank you!

My only suggestion would be to add an option to reset an object's weight back to what it is by default.

Oh wow, thanks.. I've been asking around for a masschanger for a while now.

This is very useful! Thanks a lot!

Am I the only one who doesn't see a download link? I really want this..

Wow I can see this being very useful for making big airships with out using 20 billion hoverballs.

OK, I used the tool to make my the jeep very light and I added a prop to it at a weight that had the wheels stressed ever so slighly. I got in and in a instant the car went through the map and I was on the desktop of my pc. No error at all. It made me laugh! Other than that great STool!

Currently running on my server and working semi-well.

Extremely useful, thanks.

This looks incredibly useful. Not being able to do this was driving me nuts.

Are you talking about a weight gun or a mass gun? I think you mean mass ,since the gravity in source isn't calculated by the earth's gravitational power (9.81).

I've got to second OverloadUT. Great work though!

Thanks bud. This will help out a lot.

Update 1.1:

• Fixed missing tooltracer and sound effects

• Reload now resets the weight back to normal

Download:

You are a GENIUS thank you so much for making this, it's extremely useful!

I don't see the download link in the post. I see the 'Download 1.1:', but no link. Any ideas?

Click the image.

This is by far the most simple and useful tool I downloaded in days and the reload function in the update just perfects it. Simple to ues without farting about in lots of bloody chat messages and suchlike.

Now if someone just made a weld/stacker gun that worked a bit similar to easy weld but you could say how many duplicates you wanted to weld/stack just touching each other instead of having to fuck about knowing the size of everything, or even displayed the size in a message window and had a little slider for xyz to overide the automatic thing so you could just point with the crosshairs... That'd be cool.

Good job I can’t stop cracking up though. It’s just how many funny things you can do with this Mod. I made the really elaborate dominos type thing on “GM_CONSTRUCT” And there was the G man at the end and a small paper fell on his head, he hit the ground face first and flipped out on the ground.

hmm...i can't find the download link.

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=2289

Very nice tool thanks

The update broke this and it seems every other STOOL.

Yea he's right, the latest update did mess up every stool out, namely the context menu. There is a thread that helps fix them, but somebody responded in it that it still wouldn't work. So I do not know if everybody is just going to redo their stools or if there is a big fix. My suggestion is to update the stool but i don't know.

Yeah, I need to update the script and then place the files in their correct folders. I'll get on that, later today.

Excellent, gold star for you.

Try to make it so it doesn't need txt files..

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/s...d.php?t=249002

Also - I'm hearing that this crashes when you set the mass to 0.

You my friend, are the new Jesus.

Edit:

You my friend, are the new Jesus.

The slider goes from 1 to 50000, though you probably can set it to 0 if you write it manually or using your console. I'll fix that as well.

Edit:

Updated to 1.11:

• Now compatible with the new STool system

• Mass can no longer be 0 or lower (can cause a crash)

Download:

Haha, I seem to be the first one to get 1.11

This is really useful. ECS can change the mass too, but this lets me see the original mass and everything.

Good job.

Where is the download? I can't see it on any of the posts as if you deleted them?

Wheres the download link..

Garrysmod.org went down, that's why there's no download link. Check this page: http://www.garrysmod.org/ and when it comes back up the download link will come with it.

Damn it, I hate how the fancy tags from garrysmod.org don't show up if it's being overused.

Download Link: http://www.uploads.gaming-resources....htstool111.zip

Sweet, thanks Cyborgmatt.

This is just what I'm in need of:)

Lua King'd.

Just thought I'd mention something I discovered with the mass STOOL. Even with the new hoverball "power" setting extremely heavy things still require a crapload of them.

However if you use the mass STOOL to make the hoverballs themselves very heavy, they will become very powerful.

This stool is probably the most useful thing I've ever used in gmod10.

thumbs up

More people need to support this stool in their servers.

Don't make heavy objects low weight... They freak out and fly most of the time.

It doesn't for me. Only if you put it to 1. So I can make heavy bridges light enough that I can pick it up with the Gravity Gun.

Updated the code, requested by Chaussette.

Download 1.2:

Thanks! :D

It's certainly the most simpel and useful STool!

I'm still very newbie to gmod and especially downloads, but I can't get this to work. I extracted the files to the addon directory, but now what? Is it supposed to automatically appear in the tools menu, or under the weapons tab? Do I have to type something into the console?

It should automatically appear to your spawn menu. Make sure the directory structure is sustained when you extract the files.

Very useful. Thanks!^_^

Just for the record, Weight and Mass are two different things...

I been using the old verion of this that I modifed to support duplication. These are the changes I make weight an Entity Modifier.

local function SetMass( Player, Entity, Data )

	if ( Data and Data.Mass ) then
		if (Data.Mass > 0) then
			Entity:GetPhysicsObject():SetMass(Data.Mass)
			if ( SERVER ) then
				duplicator.StoreEntityModifier( Entity, "MassMod", Data )
			end
		else 
			umsg.Start("WeightSTool_1", self:GetOwner()) 
			umsg.End()
		end
		
		return true
	end
	
end
duplicator.RegisterEntityModifier( "MassMod", SetMass )


function TOOL:LeftClick( trace )
	if CLIENT and IsReallyValid(trace) then return true end
	if not IsReallyValid(trace) then return false end
	
	if not Weights[trace.Entity:GetModel()] then 
		Weights[trace.Entity:GetModel()] = trace.Entity:GetPhysicsObject():GetMass() 
	end
	local mass = tonumber(self:GetClientInfo("set"))
	
	SetMass( Player, trace.Entity, {Mass = mass} )
	
	return true;
end

Nice. Should definitely help with my thruster operations! ^.^