You ever ask yourself, "What if I could do that?" after watching a superhero movie or reading a comic? I'm sure you have at some point. I somehow landed myself in Equestria, with the power of applying Garry's Mod LUA to reality, starting with Nothing but a floating notepad window, a simple console, and access to the Garry's Mod Wiki.
(This is basically my attempt at combining ideas from my cancelled stories Break The System and Modding Equestria into one story, while also nerfing the abilities, and taking it a bit more seriously. This will sometimes contain actual code and stuff, but you should be able to skip over that, I just feel like throwing it in for fun.)
Chapters (7)
Sometimes stories need to be refined, it's a working process.
Looking forward to where you take this one :)
wow really looking for what you have next time nice story
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i like. x3
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Thanks! I'm definitely planning on writing more, and I'm really enjoying myself with this one! Maybe it's because I enjoy writing code? I don't know. (And just in case anyone wanted to know, the code in this chapter is actually function()al (Get it?). I didn't entirely test the other codes in-game but I did check the GMod Wiki, so the other codes potentially work. I just think its neat to have stuff like this, instead of making up random fake codes.)
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Thanks for reading so far, planning on uploading another chapter real soon. My laptop overheats when I try to play Garry's mod on it, but I have a computer too and it runs mostly fine on there. ( P. S. Garry's Mod doesn't require Half-Life 2, but some addons for Garry's Mod do require it. It's possible to mount certain games to Garry's Mod and use them in game, but it's optional. )
Yessss I waited for that type of story for a while
Hmmm is there a name for that type of story where main character gets scripting, command, world programing powers?
For example there are isekai and gamer/life is a game stories
How this should be called?
Why were Break The System and Modding Equestria cancelled?
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Because I wasn't satisfied with them.
He could go to Griffonstone and generally help there
Later he could save Crystal Empire and make them choose a ruler,maybe him or some crystal pony, fuck you Cadenza!
He could also do something with Storm King
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I didn't really think about Griffonstone, or really any of the ideas you just threw out. Might even use one of those.
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I don't know much about scripting in G mod but will he be able to do "big" things?
Like spawning an army or using scripts that have big radius effect that heal ,etc
Wait!
I thought about something
He has ability to respawn others too ,right?
He should also be able to use disguises ,skins to look like a pony
So he could do deals like that,let's say someone in noble family died and they will pay a lot for bringing them back without drawbacks ,for example influence and contacts
And if they will not give promised things for that he could use some command to kill the resurected by coping their id or something
Also why influence ,contacts ,etc and not jewels and money? ,he could spawn these but not influence
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I think I get what you mean. I could definitely go with the disguise thing, maybe use a one of these,
local ply = LocalPlayerlocal tr = ply:GetEyeTrace()local model = tr.entity:GetModel()ply:SetModel( model )or something similar to just let him turn into whatever he's looking at? Seems like a feasible idea, but I don't know if I want to use it, at least not yet. Also, it IS possible to do big things with GMod Lua, every addon on the GMod workshop uses it after all, it's just that he's gotta know how. So far in the story he's only used simple commands and made a few SWEPS, but if he had the knowledge, he could do pretty much anything, like Discord, but smarter. Lastly, I don't think I want my main character to become a necromancer for money, so I probably wont do that idea.
How much chapters your planning right now? And how much per month you plan on posting i really like your story
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Thanks! I'm hoping on keeping chapters updated at least once a week, but I dont really have a schedule for this. As for planned chapters, progress should be okay, but I dont really know how long this story will end up yet.
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Not money (he should be able to spawn it or something anyway) but contacts and influence in high ranks of nobility and other high groups.
Or doing some one-creature deals ,like someone died ,he brings them back for a price ,gives them a choice to live and they have a kill switch if they will want to backstab him or turn back on a deal,run away or if they would talk about a deal with others even after its completion.I mean from simple deals like "get me in contact with x" to longer ones like "you work for me now for x"
Sometimes money can't bring you in high places but actions and favors yes
Also I think he can respawn, without drawback like necromancers have,I don't think necromancers can fully bring back life and it's ends up as some kind zombie or undead.Respawn should be without these drawbacks ,with healed body, etc
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I suppose I could do that, but still. Raising the dead is probably not the best idea in any scenario, either it be half revival and end up creating zombies, or full revival and end up dealing with a moralistic dilemma. And as for the favors? Would you ask an unknown alien creature if they could bring back the dead for you? I doubt it. Maybe he could do other things, like selling weird SWEPs that are disguised as strange magical artifacts? I might end up accidentally making him into the happy mask salesman.
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But it would be easy to notice it's not magic
Also selling things that have your power is asking fate for them being used against you and a noob mistake
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Ok thx you for responding always looking for more
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Well I said weird SWEPs, not anything powerful that could be used against him. Probably something useless like a SWEP that makes things temporarily sticky or something unusual. Also, how would anyone tell if an artifact is magical or not? They might not find any magic if it was scanned or something but it would still do strange things that seem magical.
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No problem!
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As long as he will think about implementing a kill switch into artifacts so he could deactivate them ,turn them against the user or explode it's ok
I'm cool with idea of him selling stuff as long as he is smart with it
In a world of hypocritical and somewhat racist ponies you should be cautious
Xenophobic Ponies, I vote for Griffonstone and Mitrils plan.
Show them what a mistake they made
But seriously, why are they so Antagonistic? He didn't do a thing to earn it! Is it just Xenophobia?
i love stories that use scripting and coding to manipulate and control reality, good job! can't wait for the next chapter!
I hope he goes somewhere where there are no ponies/few ponies — for example, Griffonstone (Sorry if I misspelled it), or Zebrica. A friendlier race would be nice, then just to spite the ponies, he would help them advance tremendously.
Also, it's a pretty good story so far, even if I don't understand a thing about coding, it's still interesting to see him code his powers. I am personally just waiting for him to spawn in some kind of joke weapon.
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I vote Zebrica so while he makes them into a very advanced race both technologically and culturally, the ponys will look like archaic barbarians in comparison. That would be awesome. Since I don't think the griffons would work out that early in the timeline.
He should try snapping hit fingers or imagine clicking buttons
Why was he chased out of the town again? Just for being there, right?
Why didn’t he just go to Canterlot and no-Clip his way to an audience with Celestia? He has done nothing wrong to warrant her attacking him after all!
more please
make him go to celestia or luna it will be better man and so much more cooler and can you make them longer? i dont really care if it take more time quality firts man :) i love the story
When do you think the next chapter is out?
This story has potential, keep it up! Also, are you familiar with the mod https://bit.ly/2IuCS9O ? He could potentially code that or the normal playermodel menu into his notepad and use it to his advantage later on. If it serms too op it could be used to just change what clothes he is wearing. For example he could use it to change his casual clothing into a smart suit.
Damnit you just gotta hate racist ponies, especially when they are so cute! but don't worry good story so far, looking forward to more in the future!
Wouldn't it be better to use the player's entity id to check whether the damage scale condition is applied rather than name? Not that it would matter I suppose if there really wasn't anyone else named the same. I just figure it would be far more secure and logical to use for practically the same amount of work put in, haha
Very neat
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maybe Admin!MC?
Why didn't you just tp your self to ponyvile instead of running? with lua it could be easy.. to tp in a wall... Well, you could just tp high up in the sky or something and using lua to disable gravity. I don't remember much of lua because I really only used it on Gmod for the expression two mod but you'd probably want to figure out which ways are your vectors. If vectors were anything like Minecraft cords the for x and z its basically trial and error but x is up and down. You could just set your entity vectors up high look around and tp in directions until you figure out which ways the vectors are going which should be more than a minute or two. THen thanks to your high up view tp to ponyvile. Shouldn't be that hard but then again I really only use vec2 because I normally make consoles and screen on Gmod for RP. Make life easy when you can make a shop that automatically sells guns and gives you money. I don't mess with entities tho because normally not allowed for severs.
btw I rarely go on Gmod so I haven't used lua in like 5 or 6 months. So correct me if I got something wrong. Anytime I do go on lua I only do it to use a mod that I found and shoot out anywhere from 1 - 30 nukes at a time depending on how big the map is. Here something I did a few years ago cause I was board. It took me a while because I had to get the ship out of the map and then add effects. Too bad, I didn't have any good laser effects. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1783262943
Your name? Why not use your player entity ID? I see two ways for this to work.
Method#1
Instead of putting
". .
if ( player:Nick() == "Mathew Heart" ) then"Just use your entity instead.
Method#2
IF that doesn't work then do something like this
enetity(1) = NameAnd then Instead of putting your name, You do
if ( player:Nick() == Name ) thenThis way it will be using a variable set to your entity. This will stop anypony with the same name from getting basically god mode.
Again I haven't use lua in months and I rarely use entities so correct me if I'm wrong. Also, why did I do this? because I know that your probably going add someone in the story that has the same name thus the same god mod. this would stop that.
Prop hunt
Wow
That was stupid of them to do
He just wanted friends ans get a job
I'm disappointed in them but since they did not get any Character development yet and maybe have not met Zecora yet.
So...
I let them slide for know and hopefully they realize their mistakes
Awe...
Man it would be nice if they just befriended your ture Human self instead of your fake self
Uh-oh, we have a Lua Uppercase Accident!
Lua is not an acronym, rather it is a name, meaning "Moon."
Now I am going to read this story and harshly judge all of the lua code I find.
Hmm, does Garry's mod allow
&&in place ofand? One of the last codeblocks here have that.Also, missing
endfor that last function'sif.I've not used Garry's Mod's Lua before, but it looks like it has a lot of helper functions built in a way that is intuitive to use.