Contraption tips

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General Tips

When building a contraption just do not rush, take a lot of time on your welds. When using PHX models you will see that the texture is a very good welding template.

Remember that holding SHIFT+E while physgunning your props makes them rotate to set angles. Use this in combination with easy-weld to result in a perfectly aligned (straight and stable) contraption!

Quality

Measurements

When using PHX props or any other props with patterns in their texture (use any mark you wish and measure up to the next area you see that same mark basically)

Hydraulics

Hoverballs

Welds

Welding Tips
Snapping (Grid)
Snapping (Breaking)

Colors

Materials

Both color and material are useful and worthwhile cosmetically and strategically, and can be found underneath the "Render" Category near the bottom of your tool list.

Save!

No colliding with the world

Construction with breakable props

Easiest way

Just use the magnetise-tool on that prop with all settings like magnet-strength turned to zero. It will become unbreakable and it won't act like a magnet.

Console

ent_fire !picker sethealth 99999

And press enter, this will make your prop virtually invincible. (Note: this isn't invincible but it will last a long time, depending on what you are doing to it. If necessary, add more nines. Also, you will need to type sv_cheats 1 into the console before doing this, so you will not normally be able to use this on most servers.)

A better method:

ent_fire !picker addoutput "minhealthdmg 99999"

And press enter, this will make it ignore any damage smaller than 99999, add more nines if needed. Again, you need sv_cheats set to 1, generally meaning you'll have to have rcon access to a server or be in Singleplayer.

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