Installation
Just clone this repo in your addons folder or subscribe in the workshop.
Features
The code base has been drastically changed now and does not correspond to the original 2.0 version anymore. This was the only way I could support the things I needed the most from the addon:
- Very stable crystal calculating routine and beam trace
- Reflect beam traces via hit surface material override
- Refract beam traces via hit surface material override
- Calculate full internal reflection according to medium boundary
- Code base and updates in tone with Garry's mod 13
- Supports wire and every element supports advanced duplicator 1 and 2
- Wire inputs override internals when connected
- Internal wire wrapper taking care of the wire interface
- Surface reflection and medium refraction power absorption
- Better model for the crystal entity not to get confused where beam comes out
- Material override can be saved and restored with advanced duplicator 1 and 2
- Editable entity support option for changing internals of the laser elements
- User customizable models for active entities and reflectors via convar tweak
- Absorption degradation and self sustain beam loop for crystal entities
- Wiremod API for retrieving beam source settings and make control feedback
- A bunch of different laser addon dedicated elements you can find here in the wiki page
- Coding effective wrapper for editable entity manipulation and adjustment
Workshop
I see many copies of this tool everywhere, but still, there is none that have crated official repository for community contribution, besides, I think the original author will not like that in general. If you want to try the tool go ahead and install it.
Versioning
Small modifications are pushed to the workshop when they are tested. Large modifications require a dedicated PR, which when gets tested and when merged is pushed to the workshop automatically.
