Other Weapon question.

Hey so I was just wondering, is there anyway on the clockwork weapon base to set the damage of a new weapon and/or change the damage of existing weapons?

 

Change the number fam.

 

There isn't a number to change when I make the item

 

It's hard to understand what you're asking here. Do you want to change the damage a weapon does in the item's file? I'm sure there's a way you could do that, but it'd be much easier to actually open the SWEP's code and just change the damage of the weapon itself.

 

The item's file is only for the item drop.

You'll have noticed it contains no information about the weapon at all, such as fire rate and clip size. The computer clearly can't be guessing this data by itself, so the only answer is, you're looking in the wrong place.

You're supposed to look for the actual weapon script, which for a schema/framework included weapon should be the entities folder inside the schema/framework, and for addons it's the script inside the addon.

 

Oh my bad, so when I'm making an item I just use the weapon code where it asks for the id?

 

Yes, for the item's uniqueID you would put the classname of the weapon, e.g. "weapon_pistol", "weapon_357".

 

Class name is typically the weapon's folder.

 

Would this work with weapons from a workshop addon?

 

Not to be rude, but why don't you try it?
The answer is yes, but you should at least try it before you ask.

 

Yes, but modifying the damage is hell. (You need to extract the GMA)

EDIT: Do follow Viz's advice and try before asking, especially if it's faster to try and fail rather than wait for an answer.
You can still ask to make sure AFTER you try, should you fail. In that case you may have done something wrong.
If you don't need to modify the weapon stats, I don't remember how to check the ID without extracting the addon.

 

https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Entity/GetClass this should work.

 

I didn't suggest that because if he can't change a weapon's damage then he probably can't use GetClass.

 

To be clear, I can change a weapons damage, I just was confused and thought that the clockwork item base was it's weapon base. Stupid mistake on my part still.

 

But can you use getclass?