pycfg - A script generator for HL2DM

This tool is designed to lower the amount of work you have to do for console scripts in HL2DM.

Now one might say: "What is this all about!?!"

I will show you just now.

ent_create env_spark targetname sparky
ent_fire sparky startspark

This ain't a lot of code, true. But what if you want to create sparks aligned in a circle? Yes. Correct. Way too many lines. Now this is where pycfg comes in handy. Instead of having to write all those lines, you can take advantage of for loops in python. This creates a ring of sparks around x 0 y 0 z 0 world coordinates:

import cfgents
import cfgfile
import cfgmath

# Create a script by the name "manysparks".
cfg = cfgfile.CfgBuilder("manysparks")

# Define the Origin and the Point we want to rotate.
o = cfgmath.Vec(0,0,0)
v = cfgmath.Vec(100,0,0)

# Rotate by 10 degrees every 36 times => 360 degrees.
for x in range(0,36,1):
    # Create a new file every 4 entities so we don't mess up our game.
    if ((x%4)==0):
        cfg.newFile();

    ent = cfgents.Entity(cfg,
            "env_spark",
            "spark{0}".format(x))
    ent.create()

    ent.setKeyvalue("origin", v.rotate(o,"z",10).str())

    ent.fireInput("startspark")

# Builds the script into the current working directory.
cfg.build()