[TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Toss Buildings

Pretty simple idea: Engi can now throw his buildings while carrying them. To throw buildings, press your Reload key. They will construct while in air, bounce off walls and finally be usable at the desitnation. You can't throw during Waiting For Players, If a building lands in a spawn room or sticks into other things, it will blow up.

Credits to zen for the idea :)

Dependencies

• VPhysics Extension - because it's the best way to accelerate physics props
• TF2Utils - because that can check if things are in spawn rooms
• tf2hudmsg - because HudNotifications are prettier than PrintHintText (OPTIONAL)
• TF Custom Attributes - fancy (OPTIONAL)
• SMLib Transitional-Syntax - because it makes things easier for me (COMPILE ONLY)

ConVars

• sm_toss_building_types "dispenser teleporter sentrygun" - Space separated building types that can be tossed. Remove a word to block that building from being tossed.
• sm_toss_building_force 520 - The force with with to yeet the buildings. 520 felt good, 320 still works, idk keep it default i guess.
• sm_toss_building_upright 0 - How much to pull the prop upright in degree/sec. Will somethwat prevent the prop twriling, 0 to disable.
• sm_toss_building_breakoob "dispenser teleporter sentrygun" - Space separated list of building names that break out of bounds: Dispenser Teleporter Sentrygun.
• sm_toss_building_allowstacking 0 - Set to 1 to allow tossing builings on top of each other.
• sm_toss_building_version - Version convar for version

ConVars go into cfg/sourcemod/plugin.tossbuildings.cfg.

Custom Attribute

This plugin also works as custom attribute. It is recommendedto use Hidden dev attributes, but custom attributes is also supported.

I'm not too familiar with hidden dev attributes, but the entry should probably look something like this (Don't forget to give it a unique id aka number somewhere above 4000):
Add the "toss buildings" attribute to the building tool (base item def index 28) with the following values (add up to combine):
1 - Dispenser , 2 - Teleporter , 4 - Sentrygun.
The attribute overrides the config value.

Please tell me if somethings not working with that, I still might have to adjust some checks.

Library

Other plugins can listen to buildings being tossed and landing. For more info check the include. If you block a building from being tossed, maybe tell the player why it's blocked (UX is important, mmkay).

Don't forget to to add the gamedata file :)

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Update 22w21b
* Fixed weird crash when no building is held by the build tool
* Added Version ConVar

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

damn this sounds funny
add a video to the post =P

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Is this similar to that old video of either FlaminSarge's or Pelipoikas where he whips a teleporter into the air and it still teleports a person while flying through the air?

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

No you have to pickup the buildings. While it's thrown, it's most likely still constructing. But if you manage to get a exit airborne for construction time + teleport cooldown, you might be able to tp through before it lands.

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Update to 22w22a
* Added ConVars to control building types and force for tossing
* Added forwards to integrate with other plugins

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Update to 22w23b
* Made tossing more reliable, landing on slopes
* Buildings will only start building once they landed
* Picking up airborn objects no longer leaves ghost props
* Buildings can now be thrown through players but will break if landing in players

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Would it be possible to make it so people can't throw buildings out of bounds or pass things like player clips, func_respawnroomvisualizer, etc?
I had a user who kept throwing their sentries in inaccessibles area to keep killing players or to access offlimit areas via engineer teleport throwing.

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

Definitely possible in numerous ways. Could use that electric fizzle-out death effect to fizzle out buildings of any variety that get tossed into a respawn room of an opposing team. That'd be the neatest way to handle it in my opinion. Or just re-use the functionality of the building breaking when it lands inside a player and do the same thing for if it lands in an enemy respawn room.

Re: [TF2] Toss Buildings
 

He already checks if it lands inside of a respawn room and destroys them accordingly. My issues are more with player clips and visualizers that don't have respawn rooms near them.