Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Build
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11 Mar, 2018 @ 5:35pm
15 Sep, 2018 @ 8:23am
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Physical Parent

Description
The parenting tool of the future!
Don't you hate it when you flip your parented car and its body goes through the ground? Or having to use jelly welds to get any physics at all?

Physical Parent allows you to parent entities while keeping perfect, rigid collisions.

This tool will also allow you to create normal parents, with all the settings you've come to expect, such as removing shadows, constraints, and setting the weight of parented entities.
It is recommended you use normal parents for the bulk of your contraption and only use Physical Parents for props that set the collision bounds.

It also comes with Physical Unparent, a tool capable of unparenting both physical and regular parents. And it has area select!

You can change the collision complexity per player limit using the server cvar "sv_physparent_maxcomplexity". The limit is in place to prevent people from creating laggy parents.

(Also, note that the introduction video is a bit outdated in the sense that you no longer have to start with an unconstrained contraption. You can now directly add physical parenting to existing contraptions without any special action required)

If you find any bugs, post them in the bug reports thread!
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♫🟊𝓕𝓡𝓘𝓧🟊♫ 3 Jul, 2024 @ 5:53pm 
best mod
pacoso 21 Oct, 2023 @ 7:57am 
thanks bro you are the best
fantasybabydino 18 Oct, 2023 @ 4:48am 
its a mod called smartsnap, its very useful for making things and being precise
also one of the most popular
pacoso 16 Oct, 2023 @ 6:03pm 
How do you make that white thing that appears with the tool gun?

I mean that thing that appears that looks like a wireframe

Is it a mod or a command?

I want to have that please :steamsad:
zender 12 Jul, 2023 @ 9:25am 
lua/weapons/gmod_tool/stools/physparent.lua:211: Tried to use a NULL physics object! fix that pls TwT
flap 5 Jul, 2023 @ 8:14pm 
[Physical Parent] lua/weapons/gmod_tool/stools/phys_unparent.lua:93: attempt to get length of field 'phys_unparent_selected' (a nil value)
1. RightClick - lua/weapons/gmod_tool/stools/phys_unparent.lua:93
2. unknown - gamemodes/sandbox/entities/weapons/gmod_tool/shared.lua:253
RoYoshi 8 May, 2023 @ 4:54am 
Addon returns in "DrawPhysgunBeam" hook, no doubt that this will not be fixed
Redox 17 Nov, 2022 @ 4:26pm 
This addon returns early in the hook "DrawPhysgunBeam" it shouldn't be doing this, can't recommend using it.
Clue 15 Oct, 2022 @ 8:48am 
Physical Parent is a thing that i don't have in real life
mr doctor phd 15 Oct, 2022 @ 4:35am 
randomly disables collisions on some props when using 'normal parent'. completely breaks all proparmour.