I am attempting to attach an entity to an attachment point on a weapon (or other model). So far I have tried parenting the entity to the weapon and continuously setting the position in SWEP:Think(). Parenting seems to attach the entity in the middle of the character's body. Continuously setting the position works better, but is jerky, and I cannot figure out how to actually get the attachment's position. I am using

ent:SetPos(self.Weapon:GetAttachment(self.Weapon:LookupAttachment("muzzle")).Pos)

This gets fairly close to the muzzle, but is up above my head, and behaves strangely when I turn or move.

Is there another way to do this?

Edit:
I have put screenshots up here: http://mrflippy.net/images/screensho...od/flashlight/ (This is using setparentattachment)

Notice how the entity doesn't always match up with where the barrel of the gun is.

Get the shootpos, stick it there and then parent it to the gun without setting any attachments.

Shootpos isn't the gun pos at all, simply the screen position.

And parenting to the gun makes movement of the parented entity inverted.

There's a function serverside that returns the position of the end of the gun.

In the Source SDK SetParent() has an additional parameter for the attachment, I don't know if it's in the Lua implementation.

Edit: talked to Garry on Gtalk, apparently this isn't avaliable yet, and has added it to the next release.

You can do it through ent:Fire.
entity:Fire("setparentattachment","eyes",0)

Setting something to the shootpos sticks the ent in the players head or something.

Edit:

This would be pretty nice.

Edit:

Hmm... this seems to work better than anything else that I have tried. It still behaves a bit oddly, but not as oddly as before.

Edit: That is the first-person view is weird -- the entity swings way over to the right or left when I turn that direction, and bounces a lot when I move. Looks great from third-person though I think

Screenshots of the latest code using setparentattachment.