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Glorious Gloves

The Glorious Gloves replace the original Gravity Gloves, giving you the power of Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun in the palms of your hands!

This mod depends on the Scalable Init Support addon.

You can reasonably beat ~90% of the original game using only the Glorious Gloves (no guns)!
If you're up for a challenge, you just might be able to beat the whole thing without guns, but you'll need to get very creative :)

See below for a complete feature list and instructions on how to use.

Special thanks to Augusta Butlin for making development possible! And a huge shout-out to the Half-Life: Alyx modding community - if it wasn't for everyone's support and shared willingness to explore an undocumented engine, I never would have been able to navigate how to go about modding with VScript alone.

This is my first mod, so any and all feedback is especially encouraged and greatly appreciated :)

• Automagically replaces the default Gravity Gloves in any map!
  
  
• Added Levitation
  Keep your hand closed (Grav Glove Lock input action) when you Grabbity an object to levitate it out in front of you
  
  • Can levitate most heavy physics objects (even some that are too heavy to successfully Grabbity)
    
  • All objects are kept at a comfortable distance based on size
    
  • Levitates Manhacks at a nearly-safe distance
    
  • You can reorient any object you are levitating by grabbing and manipulating it with your free hand (or if it's too heavy then just by pushing it into the desired orientation)
  
  
• Added Punting
  Punch a closed fist (Grav Glove Lock input action) forward/away from you when near an object (tethered or not), or when levitating an object in front of you
  
  • Includes physics damage, heavier objects do more damage
    
  • Punt headcrabs directly to knock them back and deal damage!
    
  • Knocks over antlions; hurts them if they're already knocked!
    
  • Damage to enemies scales with difficulty!
    
  • Breaks boards and locks (requires aiming at the centre of the model)
    
  • Punted explosives and Manhacks explode upon significant impact
    
  • If you try to punt an object that is out of range, it will still be weakly pushed
  
  
• Improved Grabbity
  Grab (Grav Glove Lock input action) to tether, and pull backward/away from the object to bring it towards you
  
  • If an object is out of range/too heavy, you can still weakly pull it towards you
    
  • Restricted tethering to require the action of closing your hand/input
    
  • Modified grabbity arc to always be vertical
    
  • Enabled the grabbity-ing of Manhacks
    
  • Enabled the grabbity-ing of larger, heavier objects
    
  • Enabled the remote pulling of doors/drawers (requires aiming at the centre of the model)
  
  
• Added relevant haptic feedback
  
• Implemented Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun sounds
  
• Modular code base to support further community modding :)

This mod is CPU-bound and runs "acceptably" on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ ~3.8 GHz. Too many physics objects in a level will overwhelm the current implementation. In its current state, you may experience performance hits in the Northern Star Hotel and later levels as a result.

This mod's code is available free & open source via a GNU GPL-3.0 License on GitHub[github.com]
Please report any bugs you experience on the project's GitHub!

• There are no models for the Glorious Gloves.
  
• Phantom ammo will appear after you put a gun away in your inventory, and it can be interacted with using the Glorious Gloves. Still trying to figure out a way to filter this.
  
• My approach to enabling Vort Energy is clunky at best; you may experience odd behaviour when near Vort Energy.
  
• The ammo/resin counter magically disappears after you go near Vort Energy
  
• Grabbing/Levitating/Punting requires you aim at the centre of an object

For a more comprehensive collection of bugs & limitations, please visit the Issues section of the Github page linked above.