Entity suggestion: comp_scale_dummy

[electrovoyage]

A dummy for scale is pretty often needed when mapping. So i suggest a new entity: comp_scale_dummy, which could look like an info_player_start, or game-specific models, like, e.g. a manhack and camera drone for Half-Life 2 and cube and turret for Portal / Portal 2. This would be way faster than placing the appropriate entity or a prop with its model.

[vrad-exe]

Might be better to call this hammer_model or hammer_prop (like hammer_notes) and just make it a prop which only shows up in hammer and can use any model

[electrovoyage]

Might be better to call this hammer_model or hammer_prop (like hammer_notes) and just make it a prop which only shows up in hammer and can use any model

Yeah i think that's a better name

[TeamSpen210]

A minor issue is that if I add a dropdown for presets, it'd be annoying to enter any custom model. I could make it spawn multiple props, but that might be very distracting in 2D views. Perhaps a custom model, featuring various different dimensions?

[vrad-exe]

My idea was to just have it be a regular model selector

[vrad-exe]

The advantage compared to placing a regular prop would just be that it is automatically removed in-game, instead of needing to put it in a visgroup or anything

[TeamSpen210]

In that case I could potentially just roll it into hammer_notes.

[vrad-exe]

Maybe, although I feel like this serves a somewhat different purpose