the vanilla hoverball tool should've just been this from the very beginning, as someone who's completely illiterate at programming, i hated having to resort to wiremod just to get a working offset hoverball.

you fly? water?
ok

@Marum - Glad you like it! And thank you for making the OG version! ;)

This is awesome, thanks for making it!

i thibkj parent mode

@Snek - Well that's a new one. When does this happen, after a dupe?
Are you using weld or parent mode to attach the hoverballs?

the balls keep detachting from my creations

@Sony

Try this: https://github.com/Sony-dev/Offset-Hoverballs/pull/28

We have to make shure nil is assigned. Lua will garbage collect all table members if they are not referenced anyway 😀

@Dexious Emera - Thank you for letting me know!
Odd that it only seems to happen with the default gmod duplicator tool and not Adv dupe 1/2.
Applied an experimental fix that hopefully should solve the problem. Please let me know if you run into any other issues.

Updating/creating an offset hoverball with all the options ticked does not have the same issue, this happens when i have "hovers over entities/props" unticked

[Offset hoverballs] lua/includes/extensions/table.lua:54: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
1. pairs - [C]:-1
2. Empty - lua/includes/extensions/table.lua:54
3. UpdateFilter - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/init.lua:80
4. PostEntityPaste - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/init.lua:482
5. oldPaste - lua/includes/modules/duplicator.lua:834
6. Paste - lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:1403
7. LeftClick - gamemodes/sandbox/entities/weapons/gmod_tool/stools/duplicator.lua:63
8. unknown - gamemodes/sandbox/entities/weapons/gmod_tool/shared.lua:226

got this while attempting to spawn a dupe with this, causes the dupe to fall apart with all welds, wires, etc undone

@Toyotaboy - Thanks for the heads up, I've had a bit of a tinker and the wiremod connections should save properly now.
Duplicating wired OHBs seems to work fine on my end during tests, but please do let me know if any other bugs appear. :)

I'm having problems with wire-mod not working also not saving my wires from the hover-balls with advance dupe 2.

@Sony

It seems to me the weapon is not validated. Try this:
https://github.com/Sony-dev/Offset-Hoverballs/pull/23

@Redox - Just updated the Steam release to the latest GitHub version.
There's been quite a few revisions between the releases, so hopefully that bug was squished in one of them.
Please do let me know if it happens again, or if any new issues pop up.
Cheers

CL error some clients get

[ERROR] lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:152: Tried to use a NULL entity!
1. GetClass - [C]:-1
2. DrawLaser - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:152
3. Draw - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:236
4. unknown - gamemodes/base/entities/entities/base_anim.lua:49


I think its just a simple IsValid( ball ) instead of ball:IsValid()

Oh absolutely, will add you to the contributors thing now.
Forgot Steam even had such a function as I've never actually used it before. ;)

Hey, I am ready with the untangling the information balloon.
https://github.com/Sony-dev/Offset-Hoverballs/pull/13

Coded standard API so if something specific is needed, just change the API call
You can also add me to contributors if you like ;)

Thanks!

@Redox - I've added some extra checks to try and resolve the errors, unfortunately I have no way to test things in multiplayer, so please do let me know if the issue persists!

Players sometimes get this clientside error, i'm not sure how to replicate it but it should be a simple fix.

[ERROR] lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:43: Tried to use a NULL entity!
1. GetClass - [C]:-1
2. DrawLaser - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:43
3. unknown - lua/entities/offset_hoverball/cl_init.lua:128

@Redox - You're right, apparently I just forgot to update the Github.
Fixed it now, thanks for reminding me!

Is the code on github not the same as the addon? The github code has no mention or support for wire

Thanks <3

@pippi - I have reworked some things so now the hoverballs should act as you describe.
Please let me know if there are any problems with the change. ;)

pls make it so you don't have to spam the up and down keys and instead just hold them 🥺

i hope you will not put it down?

these look hot

All the demo images are from a sandbox map called 'BlueHills' - Workshop link

Awesome, also what's the map you are using in the first two images?