Frequently Asked Questions

General

• Q: How do I install this?

• A: Grab the latest release from the Releases section, from there on it should be drag-n-drop to the Sourcemod folder.

• Q: How do I add attributes to my weapons?

• A: Your sourcemod/data folder should contain a tf2rebalance_attributes.txt file you can edit to add attributes automatically to weapons that spawn alongside players. Another file, tf2rebalance_attributes.example.txt, also teaches you how you should fill the file correctly.

• Q: Where do I get item and attribute indexes?

• A: You can get them from here and here, respectively.

Weapon Editing

• Q: If "keepattribs" is set to zero on a weapon section, minimal viewmodels aren't preserved! Can you fix it?
• A: Minimal viewmodels are a clientside process, so it's not possible to preserve a player's mininmal viewmodel preferences. For this purpose, /cantsee was created, which is suggested to be used.

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• Q: If "keepattribs" is set to zero on a flamethrower, it doesn't shoot flames! What do I do?
• A: Flamethrowers' physics are controlled by attributes. Here are the default ones (remember to format it like how tf2rebalance_attributes.txt requires it, names are given for readability only):

"flame_gravity"                        "0"
"flame_drag"                        "8.5"
"flame_up_speed"                    "50"
"flame_speed"                        "2450"
"flame_spread_degree"                "2.8"
"flame_lifetime"                    "0.6"
"flame_random_life_time_offset"        "0.1"

• And here are more flamethrower attributes to mess around with (credit to Jakapoa):

"flame_up_speed"         - Changes how fast flames move upwards. Can be negative to move downward
"flame_speed"             - How fast flames move.
"flame_drag"            - How much resistance a flame faces durring flight. Lower values make flames travel farther.
"flame_gravity"            - Are flames effected by gravity. Honestly I dont think this does anything.
"flame_spread_degree"        - Flame angle deviation. Basically "projectile spread angle penalty" for flamethrowers.
"flame_reflect_on_collision"    - how hard a flame bounces off a surface
"redirected_flame_size_mult"    - (?)
"flame_ignore_player_velocity"    - Does that

"airblast_turn_projectile_to_ammo"     - spawns small ammopack on reflect
"airblast_give_teammate_speed_boost"     - (untested)
"airblast_deflect_projectiles_disabled" - projectiles are not airblasted
"airblast_put_out_teammate_disabled"     - teammates can not be extinguished
"airblast_pushback_disabled"        - can not airblast players
"airblast_destroy_projectile"        - destroys projectiles instead of reflecting. Exactly like heavy deflection.