Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

Star Wars Lightsabers
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Rubat  [developer] 13 Jul, 2015 @ 9:28am
Frequently Asked Questions / Common Problems
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I disable 3rd Person View?
  • You can't. The weapon was designed to be 3rd person only, for accurate damage detection. You will not be able to tell what you are hitting in first person, unless I make the weapon a crappy crowbar replacement, which is not fun.
My blade is not where it is supposed to be!? Deals no damage?
  • Report which player model you are using and whether it is happening with double bladed saber in the comments please. You are most likely didn't upload the model to the server, or the player model does not have bones to attach the lightsabers to.
Double bladed lightsaber?
  • Use the Darth Maul Saber-staff hilt
The videos have DIFFERENT ANIMATIONS
  • Those animations were a few years ago provided by GMod. They were changed since then to the current ones. The animations are limited to what the game provides, addons do not have a proper way of adding any animations without breaking or being broken by other mods.
How do I customize the lightsaber
  • If you couldn't be bothered to read the description, here: Open the "Lightsabers" tool in your spawn menu and customize it there.
How do I change the lightsaber limit on the server


Frequently Requested Features
Add more force powers, Force Lighting
Add a way to hold 2 lightsabers/reverse grip
  • Not really possible due to lack of animations, and new ones can't be properly added without breaking other addons.
Add more animations or change current ones
  • There is currently no clean way of adding player model animations without breaking or being broken by other mods
Add more hilts
Make NPCs use this SWEP
  • Most NPCs do not have melee animations that would make Lightsabers work. Plus there are other engine limitations.

Common Problems
I can't deal damage
  • Most likely the problem is that an addon is blocking damage or something. Could be also that you are simply not hitting anything. You MUST physically hit an enemy with the blade. The hit detection on servers is not as good as I'd like it to be though ( due to Source Engine limitation ). Your server's tickrate affects this very greatly. DarkRP tickrates ( less than 60 ) will cause huge problems. If you are absolutely sure you did everything correct, first try disabling all mods. Second make sure you can damage enemies with other weapons. Then if it still doesn't work, the report the gamemode, the enemy, etc here, tell me ALL the info.

    MAKE SURE YOU UPLOADED THE PLAYER MODELS TO YOUR SERVER
I can't change my Force!11
  • You must press your flashlight button ( By default - F ) to toggle the "Force Selection". Once the boxes on the bottom become big, you can now press 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to select the Force Power to use. Then press Mouse 2 ( Right Click ) to actually use it. If this doesn't work, and you instead just toggle your flashlight, try disabling all addons. If that still doesn't work, let me know all the info you can give me here. Gamemode, addon list, key config, etc. ALL OF IT.
I take fall damage with Force Leap??
  • One or more of your addons (or the gamemode) is breaking this addon by improperly using the GM:GetFallDamage hook. I cannot fix this, it is not a problem with this mod/addon.
Crowbar? WTF?
  • One or more of your addons (or the gamemode) is breaking this addon by improperly using the GM:CalcView hook. I cannot fix this, it is not a problem with this mod/addon.
Last edited by Rubat; 26 Mar, 2024 @ 1:41pm
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FFEC-FFFB 10 Aug, 2015 @ 9:00am 
i'm having problems with the force chaing i didnt once somehow but can tfigure out how to do it now ive tried f and it wont work
Torque 14 Aug, 2015 @ 11:42am 
Well, I disabled all of my addons (save two, ACF and some SWEP addon which I had installed manually), and I still can't get the force changing to work. Is there a way to change the keybind?
Last edited by Torque; 14 Aug, 2015 @ 11:45am
Mr. Headcrab 18 Aug, 2015 @ 10:55am 
The handle is an error, and I have over 600 addons, so is this a problem with the addon or am I screwed?
Rubat  [developer] 18 Aug, 2015 @ 11:16am 
It's a problem on your side.
BLEEP00 19 Aug, 2015 @ 10:26pm 
duel wielding would be nice
customer 20 Aug, 2015 @ 7:46am 
My saber only deals damage on entities behind me, why?

edit: oh it was just the playermodel
Last edited by customer; 20 Aug, 2015 @ 8:11am
Rubat  [developer] 21 Aug, 2015 @ 10:22am 
No.
Shiny Keldeo 23 Aug, 2015 @ 3:45pm 
Wait, so if its impossible to change the animation, how did you do it in the video? (The one where you were actually using the lightsabers not holding them with the physgun)
Rubat  [developer] 23 Aug, 2015 @ 3:59pm 
For gods sake, It wasn't changed by me, it was changed in the game Garry's Mod, by Garry's Mod developers.
Last edited by Rubat; 23 Aug, 2015 @ 4:00pm
Raphcoon 2 Sep, 2015 @ 9:31am 
I will love having new animation like block with the lightsaber but it's a shame you can not edit animation :(
Cognitive 3 Sep, 2015 @ 3:05pm 
I need help with the force jump i hold crl but still take fall damage any help?
mccheese 7 Sep, 2015 @ 8:10am 
I've been looking but can't find a command to set the lightsaber limit on multiplayer servers. 2 isn't enough for mine, is there a way to change it via console?
Rubat  [developer] 7 Sep, 2015 @ 10:03am 
Added that info to the description.
mccheese 8 Sep, 2015 @ 5:23am 
I typed it in and hit enter, but it couldn't find the command
Last edited by mccheese; 8 Sep, 2015 @ 5:23am
Rubat  [developer] 8 Sep, 2015 @ 5:45am 
It's a serverside command.
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