Create Cool Things in Garry's Mod

Ever wondered how the people on Garry's Mod make really cool contraptions? This article will show you some simple pointers and tricks make your crummy device look awesome.

Steps

  1. Get a general idea of what you want to make. It can be a trap to kill a trespasser, or a security device to allow only you in.
  2. Spawn the necessary items for the device. More of the common props needed are the blast doors, bottles, and boxes.
  3. Set them up with the physics gun. If you are creating a door that only you can open, set it against a wall so it's straight up and maybe move it into a corner to set it straight. You can also hold 'E' and press shift. This will cause the prop to align with a major axis, like straight up and down, or flat.
  4. Attach thrusters, elastic, rope, etc to the props to give them the necessary effects. Some things you might want are doors that open with elastics and thrusters, so you would set the thrusters to a middle-thrust and the elastics to max strength, then when you press the thruster button it opens, but smacks shut killing anything in the way.
  5. Add materials and color. The materials tool is really useful for giving it the final touches that make it look desirable. It also helps it to not look like a blast door in the middle of the map, but a cool looking force-field type door.
  6. Make final touch ups. This may include things such as using breakables to auto-shut the door. This is done if the door somehow flips over and is stuck in the roof or something, set the door to a bottle with an elastic. When the bottle breaks, the elastic disappears and the door will try to auto-correct itself.
  7. Show off and enjoy!

Tips

  • If your device is intended to fly, having no lift will make it hard to control. Use balloons to decrease gravity, then you can use weaker thrusters which are more forgiving.
  • Pulley works REALLY well with doors. You can make it go through walls and it has no range.
  • Freezing a prop is better then having to start over.
  • Try to avoid making counter-acting things on your device. Don't make two elastics pull two different ways and then wonder why it doesn't work.
  • Poles and barrels also help to make the device look more professional, put a pole next to a door that moves straight up and it looks more like a up-sliding door.
  • Don't give away your secrets, people will think your device is cooler if you use invisible bottles to hold up giant containers and make them magically smash down.
  • Do not over use thrusters and sliders too often, more often the prop will try to correct itself on multiple sliders while moving on multiple thrusters.

Warnings

  • Do not spam props in servers. People don't like that at all.
  • Avoid spamming elastics and thrusters, they will lag and cause your device to mess up.
  • Gravity hurts. Don't put giant things in the air then forget to freeze them.

Related Articles

You may like

Retrieved from "https://kipkis.com/index.php?title=Create_Cool_Things_in_Garry%27s_Mod&oldid=326049"