[This is a suggestion]: I was wondering if the transporter system could have an emergency transport code, you say a phrase or command in the world's chat and the transporter automatically transports you to the main transporter in the map, no matter wherever you are:
(sometimes in the series people like Wesley Crusher created a emergency transport command when the enterprise were invaded by an alien specie it transported him automatically to the transporter room.)

Also the buffer is not to store things.
It will delete your stuff after a time.
Its just for times, when you dont have enough target locations

and the test map

The buffer only exists on the voyager map

Question what gives me the transporter buffer? to store things

The small transporter pad doesn't collide with anything (props, entities, the map, etc)

seems to be fixed. and I did have the model pack

Everything is an entity. But i mean spawning it from the props list.
Without functionality.
You are most certainly missing the model pack.
You might be subscribed, but it is definitly not loading properly.

like not as a entity?

They are in the model pack.
Try spawning them as a prop?

uh for some reason the transporter console, big pad, and replicators are errors. I have all the addons

Ah thanks

You can place down external sensor beam locations using the included stool

How do i work the External Sensors and Is there a Buffer for when your on normal sandbox maps

Spawn the console first

how do i make it so it detects the Big Transporter

Probably better as a separate addon, applied via toolgun so you can add a new function to vehicles so you can vanish, move like a ghost, then reappear on a keybind(s) similar to the SCars DeLorean

Dammn that would be cool.
But also REALLY hard :D

What about a Spore Jump likeeffect, just for the heck of it

It is definitly possible.
But not currently planned, since i dont enjoy those eras as much.

IDK if there already someone asked this same question lol, but I was wondering if in the future there could be also the transporter effects of The Original Series and the 2009 ones.

Additionally, whenever I try and rename a console, the name doesn't stick.

I found another oopsie, turns out if you die mid transport then you're trapped in limbo unable to respawn.

I've found an oopsie, turns out the single pads no longer allow you to transport players to them, however the big pad does still facilitate this function as intended. I'm uncertain what other functions may have been accidentally overriden from the single pads to the big pads.

@Obi The Buffer is a particle system not a texture.

@Soren MC Yeah pretty much. Like i said, just havent gotten around to it.
Feel free to do it yourself. Github is Public and Pull requests are welcome

[Oninoni [author]
It just gets complicated due to the 3-dimensionality of it.
Just didnt get around to it yet.]

I might be wrong here, but since the screen is in 2D, the height component of the coords doesn't matter, so the pads height component could be set to the same as the transporter's when calculating the angle

Naturally another much simpler option is to just overlay the buffer box material on a client screen, turn the dematerialised entity invisible and nocollided at their current location in order to completely side-step the "buffer box" at the cost of some looks, which is why I originally suggested some kind of admin spawned buffer box entity that can just be placed somewhere on the map

It just gets complicated due to the 3-dimensionality of it.
Just didnt get around to it yet.

[Oninoni [author] 26 Apr @ 10:52pm
It is planned, but surprisingly hard for some reason...]

I don't know what you have tried, and you may already have tried this:

I think a solution could be to; calculate the angle between the console and the pads using the following formula; "angle = atan2(y2 - y1, x2 - x1) * 180 / PI", and then rotate the digital objects on the display in relation to the centerpoint on the display

The Buffer should be simulated now. There might be something wrong with it. Ill investigate later today

Have you considered moving the buffer outside the map border and then use the "HUDPaintBackground" hook to display the buffer enviroment? :-)

Random suggestion, let us spawn our own buffer box like the one on the map, which all tp pads can use

Because Source 1 has to be. S&box can't come fast enough...

It is planned, but surprisingly hard for some reason...

Great addon! I was wondering if you could make it so the transporter pads icons are oriented in relation to the console and not the world ( see picture in the link)
https://i.imgur.com/CzTC2v0.jpeg

oh and how can i make a exterior pad that is non functional like in the category of "external"

can you add a delay function as is in the trek modules showroom???

Wonder if something like this can be made for the Asgard Teleporter from Stargate since the one in CAP is relatively limited.

Perhaps you could add a handheld transporter to go to the nearest transporter? idk its just an idea

I am creating these Things for Multiplayer, so it is not something i have planned. But maybe somebody else will do that.
Should be fairly simple to do.

Wondering it there will be a communicator weapon to use as a link back to a console so you can beam up anytime like in singleplayer

YES finally! At long last you can teleport in style! None of this 'disappear without any animation or even a fade effect' nonsense.

I must resume my aggressive testing

Done ;)

Oh nice!

Yes i need to do that.
Currently adding range and max Pads Limits to the consoles.
Next is making the consoles themselves rooms. Didnt think of it.
Probably Naming + Private Setting in Properties Menu

oh lol, also wondering if it would be possible to make two consoles automatically "transporter rooms" so that all pads linked to that console become associated. That way it'll be possible to use this addon in a much wider scope.

Another idea would be ways to place down markers for sections, or externals?

I actually just fixed that bug :D It probably downloaded the patch when you restarted

@myself NEVERMIND, I forgot Garry's Mod is 2000 years old and you need to restart it twice for any good addon to actually work. It works quite well, thank you for making this!