OK here is my latest creation!
This is my third weapon and I have been working hard on this the past week and it feels like it's time for a release. I have spent most of the time fixing bugs and i have fixed all of them (there shouldn't be any bugs in GMod 10 but i know there is one in the beta which i cannot solve) so this weapon should be idiot proof. I have also been playing around with effects a lot and so i made my own effects(including the textures).

With this weapon you will gain the ability to use black magic.
You can posses any prop, ragdoll or vehicle. You can use telekinesis on props, ragdolls and vehicles, you can also drain life energy(health) from NPC's by selecting them and then activate the possession(you will gain 1/5 of the NPC's health).

Here is some pics.

Picked up weapon


Draining life from NPC


Grabbing ragdoll with telekinesis


Grabbing prop with telekinesis



Controls

Primary fire: Select your victim/object. You hear a growl from Gordon if the selected victim/object is susceptible to possess. You have to sacrifice some of your own life energy to make a prop or vehicle come to life. It takes 5hp to make a prop come to life, since there are so many small parts in a vehicle it will take 10hp to make a vehicle come to life and it will take no life energy at all to make a dead body possessed because there already are enough life energy in the body.

Secondary fire: Use telekinesis ,the object will move towards the point you look at. The possession has to be turned on for a while before telekinesis can be used at full effect.
When you use telekinesis on an object the object will leave traces of black magic dust.
Be careful when you use telekinesis because if your not you might hit yourself with the object.

Reload: Turn on or off the possession. It will take some time before the possession is at full power. The more possessed the object is the more telekinesis force you can use. While an object is possessed it will move, make noises and growl. If you have selected a NPC you will drain the NPC's life energy instead of using telekinesis. You can see the NPC's red life energy get drained right out of it's body. Draining life energy will not work on big NPC's such as striders or dropships, draining life from mechanical/electrical NPC's such as Manhacks or scanners won't work either but you can use telekinesis on them.

Use : Press use to grab the object.
Use + Primary fire: Increase distance to prop when it's grabbed.
Use + Secondary fire: Decrease distance to prop when it's grabbed.

tips: When the possession is at full power you can turn it off and still have full telekinesis force.
You can steal health from NPC's by using primary fire and then turn on the possession(you will gain 1/5 of the NPC's health points.

I have also uploaded a video on youtube to show you how it looks in game.

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=6cNcQYWKij0

Download(old version)


Download new version


Updated
NPC's will now get angry or afraid of you when you possess them.
NPC's around the selected NPC will also start to be afraid or angry.
Friendly NPC's will not be affected unless you select a friendly NPC to possess.

Improoved visual effects on NPC's
More sound effects!
Different kind of ragdolls now play different sounds when possessed.
Fixed Health bug.
Fixed spasms(some npc's had to much spasms for some reason)
Fixed weapon hold type, the player will now have the "normal" holdtype.
Sounds will be played less frequently from possessed objects, vehicles and ragdolls.

I also fixed a lot of other things that i can't remember now.

So tell me what you think! =D

Credits:
Sakarias
Shs (inspired by the CSG-2000)
Dragory

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It's awesome, pure awesome.

This is truly amazing, the obvious amount of work you put into this is quite substantial! Are there any more magic/power SWEPS like this? Besides Feihcs, because I already have them!

Very NICE !

I really like that twitching/spasming of the ragdolls. Great job!

Perfect job! Finally there is something that is useful for Garry's mod!

Oh i forgot to tell everyone that ragdolls, props and vehicles all play different sounds. Vehicles have metallic and engine sounds, props will make scary hissing noises and ragdolls sounds like... a possessed ragdoll.

Seriously, this is now my most used "Screw-About" SWEP! This would also be very useful for a fantasy style RP! One evil boss dude has this and his lair is lined with props! This may be a little much to ask, but could you try making other magic types? Like cool fire magic, with just as much effort as this, I know you can't just churn them out but that's the beauty of it! Each one will be a true work of art and a powerful weapon!

Telekinesis and ... killing things with a sort of poison style effect have both been done before, but the effects are pretty damn good.

Well i don't know because i will be joining the military service in about two weeks so i don't know if i have the time to make any more(got a load of things to do) but maybe i can. What exactly do you mean by fire magic?
Like making a fire ball that will ignite stuff?

Well good luck to you, and I understand if you cannot.

By that I meant like:
Primary Fire: A compact fireball that will make a kawoosh of flame whenever it hits something, doing lots of damage and igniting anything in or near the kawoosh.
Secondary Fire: A beam of pure heat erupts from your palm, searing anything it passes near or through.
Reload: Sends out a radiant wave of flames from your position usually killing anything within the radius, the wielder is immune!

It would be interesting if someone did all the elements. Feihc did some good ones but, to me, it felt like they were churned out in about an hour or two. They didn't have the personal, artistic touch like this one.

Air: Lift and throw objects, lift yourself, push objects, cut objects.

Fire: See above...

Water: This one would probably be difficult... Maybe acid rain . You probably couldn't surround something in a bubble of water. Maybe water weapons? Like a sword made of water, or water bullets. Or some frost type damage...

Earth: Obviously some rock based attack, maybe summon a meteor. Able to create a stone wall for protection. Lift rocks out of the ground and throw them, maybe be able to ride them (have some method of control)

Light: Maybe opposite effects of the Black Magic. Maybe even able to un-posses possessed things.


I should probably post this in the suggestion thread, huh? Later, if I'm still awake :)

Water = Ice = Water

Amazing SWEP release.

Impressive, it's really nice to see such an interesting and complex SWEP that both uses effects, but doesn't involve explosions. Well done.

I really like this SWEP style's possible potential!

Prety unique idea, i like it.

Edit:

By the way: telekinesis isn't part of the black magic concept, Black magic is mostly just life power draining skills, necromanic skills, mind control skills and
demon summoning skills, so basically person who knows black magic is a warlock.

It's been said that northern magic could give you such powers as telekinesis or teleporting but this is false because northern runes cannot produce such magic words that would give the wielder ability of doing such things, the northnern magic is mostly aura magic which means you can use it to protect your self from different things or give your self more power etc.

Telekinesis itself isn't part of any real magic believes, it has history but it isn't part of any historical believes.

Does this work only in GMOD Beta?

Pretty cool idea. Now if I can start using macroPK to crush people's heads... Mwahahaha.

I thought it worked fine in Gmod 10, but was untested in Gmod 07.

I't works for both Gmod 10 and Gmod Beta.
The weapon was developed in the beta.

Edit:


I have been working on this "fire ball weapon" today.
You can throw fireballs with it. The fireball will ignite NPC's and props from a distance(so you don't have to touch the props to ignite them) and after two seconds the fireball will explode with a small kawoosh sound!

Awesome, but one question, can you use drain life on players too?

Very good idea, and a sucessful swep.

Sexy

Nope you can't, It's disabled.
It's easy to enable it but my guess is that drain life on other players in multiplayer would just be annoying(annoying for the victims).

Good idea, awesome execution.

This shall be very fun to play with...

Sakarias, YOU. ARE. A. WINNER.

Very good swep i thought. You can have major battles with two people having the same swep and throwing random objects off the walls and then have the other person stop it right infront of their face and force it back :D, but i think you should make a v2 or a little edit to where you don't see yourself in a gun stance maybe have your hands at your sides like it seems you have no weapon?

Just a thought

Nice swep. But you can't call it that! That could be offensive. May I advise you of calling it "Ethnically Disadvantaged Illusion"

I am very glad you have decided to make a Fire SWEP thank you Sakarias, you are my HERO!

I will probably release the fire weapon tomorrow and the download will contain a small update for the Black Magic weapon.
The update will fix the weapon hold type and some other things.

It would be wonderful if someone could fix me some kid of magic staff otherwise we will have to imagine that the stunstick is a magic staff.

That is so cool! I will be waiting patiently.

If only you could make the hands look a bit like they are ember. Then that'd be Clive Barker's Jericho firstborn!
:[ I want to be the firstborn.


But all in all, Very good sir.

This is great. The twitching the ragdoll did in the video was unexpected and creepy. I only wish the sounds were a little less frequent.


The amount of work, with textures models and coding, is obvious. Congratulations, you deserve a true Gold star or Lua King!

Here is a little "teaser" for the Fire Magic weapon.

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=bAYpvpOQ61Q

This weapon will be for Gmod 2007 only because there is a weird bug that makes the game crash if you kill yourself with a fireball in Gmod10.
I think the crash is caused by the fireball trying to ignite the death cam but i'm not sure.

These are great. I love the way the props and ragdolls spasm. I only wish you could get the fire one working in Gmod 10 - I don't have Episode 1 and so can't use the beta. Still, nicely done.

I won't bother fixing that bug since Garry says "The next update is coming soon. Real soon. Hopefully within the next couple of days.", so there is really no meaning fixing it but if the bug still exist in the update i will try to fix it.

I was wondering if you could add some spell like from Bioshock, maybe the electric plasmid which can stun the enemies for around 5 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljSbEQlnzAo

EDIT:

GREAT JOB!

Yay!
It works fine with the new update just as i expected!
The fireball weapon also works good and it doesn't crash either!

Before i release the fire magic weapon i want to hear if there is anything you would like to be fixed in the Black Magic weapon (update for the black magic weapon will include in the Fire Magic weapon release).

I also want to hear if you have any suggestions about the new fire magic weapon?

Fire Magic weapon controls:

Primary: Shoot fireball
Secondary: Sends out a radiant wave of flames.
Use button. Guides the fireball
Reload: Boost Jump