<function name="CreateClientRope" parent="ents" type="libraryfunc"> <description> <description> Creates a clientside only rope, similar to those used by the Dog and Fast Zombie models from Half-Life 2. Created ropes will be automatically cleaned up when one of the attached entities is removed. </description>⤶ <realm>Client</realm>⤶ <added>2025.05.23</added>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="ent1" type="Entity">The first entity to attach the rope to.</arg>⤶ <arg name="ent1attach" type="number|Vector">The attachment ID on the first entity to attach the rope to, or a local Vector relative to the first entity.</arg> <arg name="ent2" type="Entity">The second entity to attach the rope to.</arg> <arg name="ent2attach" type="number|Vector">The attachment ID on the second entity to attach the rope to, or a local Vector relative to the second entity.</arg> <arg name="extra" type="table" default="nil">Extra optional settings for the rope. Possible values are:⤶ ⤶ <warning>It doesn’t work exactly the same way as <page>constraint.CreateKeyframeRope</page> or <page>constraint.Rope</page>, you can see it when you try to use Slack with <page>constraint.CreateKeyframeRope</page> or addlength on <page>constraint.Rope</page>.</warning>⤶ ⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Client</realm>⤶ <added>2025.05.23</added>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="ent1" type="Entity">The first entity to attach the rope to.</arg> <arg name="ent1attach" type="number|Vector">The attachment ID on the first entity to attach the rope to, or a local Vector relative to the first entity.</arg> <arg name="ent2" type="Entity">The second entity to attach the rope to.</arg> <arg name="ent2attach" type="number|Vector">The attachment ID on the second entity to attach the rope to, or a local Vector relative to the second entity.</arg>⤶ <arg name="extra" type="table" default="nil">Extra optional settings for the rope. Possible values are:⤶ * slack - How much extra rope to add to the length. (default: 0) * width - Width of the rope. (default: 2) * segments - How many segments the rope should have (default: 8, valid range is [2,10]) * material - Which material should the rope have. (default: `"cable/cable"`) * nogravity - If set, the rope should have no gravity. (default: 0) </arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="Entity">Created entity (`C_RopeKeyframe`).</ret> </rets> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="Entity">Created entity (`C_RopeKeyframe`).</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Sample usage, creates a clientside rope between the player entity, and the entity the player is looking at.</description> <code> concommand.Add( "test_rope", function( ply, cmd, args ) local ent = ply:GetEyeTrace().Entity local ent2 = ply local ropeEnt = ents.CreateClientRope( ent, 0, ent2, 1, { slack = tonumber( args[ 1 ] ) or 0, material ="models/wireframe" } ) print( ropeEnt ) local ent = ply:GetEyeTrace().Entity local ent2 = ply local ropeEnt = ents.CreateClientRope( ent, 0, ent2, 1, { slack = tonumber( args[ 1 ] ) or 0, material ="models/wireframe" } ) print( ropeEnt ) end ) </code>⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Sample usage: stores the entity you’re looking at as the first endpoint, then on a second command creates a client-side rope like what we can got with <page>constraint.CreateKeyframeRope</page> or <page>constraint.Rope</page> server side.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local firstEnt = nil⤶ local addlength = 100⤶ concommand.Add( "test_rope_first", function( ply, cmd, args )⤶ firstEnt = ply:GetEyeTrace().Entity⤶ print("First entity: ",firstEnt)⤶ end)⤶ ⤶ concommand.Add( "test_rope", function( ply, cmd, args )⤶ if not IsValid(firstEnt) then return end⤶ local ent1 = firstEnt⤶ local ent2 = ply:GetEyeTrace().Entity⤶ local dist = ent1:GetPos():Distance(ent2:GetPos())⤶ ⤶ local ropeEnt = ents.CreateClientRope( ent1, 0, ent2, 1, { slack = dist+(addlength/2), material ="models/wireframe" } )⤶ print(ropeEnt)⤶ end)⤶ </code> </example>