Spawn a tracer/ mg with no damage:@

[Elgan]

any1 know anyway i cud spawn a tracer like effect?

func_beam - too slow

mg42 spawned all 3 and they all kill/ anim fire dont produce a tracer and local.mg shoot kills u even if u change the bullet damage to 0:@?

[bdbodger]

if you set spawnflags 1 on an mg gun if fires fake bullets and you can hide an mg . I guess you already know the keys you can use with a gunturret but I post them again for anyone who does not have the docs from the SDK

Gun Turrets
Gun turrets are fixed location guns that can be used by AI, or players, or controlled by script. In the editor?s right click menu, they are located under ?turret?. Any models used for turret stands are located in ?static/turret?.

Placement:
Turrets rotate around their origin, so to properly place them, their origin should be located directly over their attachment point to whatever they?re attached to. The origin is the place where the entity?s direction arrow comes out of.

Commands: The following are the commands that can be used specifically to control a turret. Any commands used to control entities can also be used on the turrets. All of these commands can be used from both the editor (by setting it as a key value), or in a script (by issuing it as a command).

* setPlayerUsable <state>: Sets wether or not a player can use this turret. If the parameter is 0, then player?s will not be able to use it. Any other value will allow player?s to use the turret.
* setAimTarget: this sets an entity for the turret to aim at. It will physically point at its aim target. This will get over ridden when the turret has a user (AI or player)
* clearAimTarget: This clears the aim target set by the use of the setAimTarget command.
* startFiring: Makes the turret start firing. Will be overridden if it has a user.
* stopFiring: Stops the turret?s firing after haven being started by the startFiring command.
* TurnSpeed <speed>: Sets the turn speed of the turret in degrees per second. This applied to both the pitch and yaw speeds. Defaults to 180.
* pitchCaps <maxup> <maxdown>: Sets the caps for the turret?s pitch. The first number is the maximum upwards pitch, and the second is the maximum downwards pitch. Note that upwards pitch is negative, and downwards pitch is positive. The upwards pitch defaults to ?45, and the downwards defaults to 45.
* yawCenter <yaw>: Sets the yaw to be considered the center of the turret?s allowed yaw arc. Defaults to the yaw that the turret spawns at.
* maxYawOffset <offset>: Sets the maximum amount that the turret can yaw away from its center yaw direction. Defaults to 180, which allws full 360 degree freedom.
* burstFireSettings <mintime> <maxtime> <mindelay> <maxdelay>: Sets the turret to firing in bursts. Does not apply when the turret has a user. Mintime is the minimum length of a firing burst, maxtime is the maximum time of a firing burst, mindelay is the minimum amount of delay between bursts, and maxdelay is the maximim delay between bursts. To turn off burst mode after having turned it on for a turret, call burstFireSettings with all parameters being 0. Turret?s default to having burst mode turned off.
* firetype <type> : type is a string for what to set the weapon's fire type to. The only two usefull options are "bullet" which makes it fire regular bullets, and "fakebullet", which makes it fire fake bullets that don't actually hurt anything.
* firedelay <time> : Sets the time between each shot in seconds.
* bulletdamage <amount> : Sets the amount of damage the bullet should do. Any amount above 40 makes it count as a rifle round, otherwise it's counted as a pistol round.
* tracerfrequency <count> : Sets the number of bullets between each tracer that's made. It's usually set to 5.

[Elgan]

i treid fake bullet. even tried spawing and setting spawflags 1. i still die:S

[Green Beret]

maybe,notsolid?
just slap me if that sounds noobish

[lizardkid]

i slap you.

well make a tracer texture if all else fails, slap it on a notsolid brush and shoot it at high speeds towards the palyer, but fakebullet should work.

[Green Beret]

i slap you.