How to switch weapon-hand?

[Antiphon]

Now ive already fought through both Half-Lifes and though theyre kick-ass games, one thing always puzzled me: Why the f**k is there no weapon-hand switch? Ok, Gordon is right-handed. But it still irritates me when i get back to half-life 2 and find my weapon on the right side. Quake 2, Unreal 2003 and 2004, in all those (nearly nowhere as good games) you could put the weapon to the left, even in Counter-Strike and Source-CS you can switch weapon-hand to left, why why why not in Half-Life 2???
PS. If anyone knows how to switch Weapon hands in Halfe Life 1, would be nice telling me.

 

[crackhead]

why does it matter? also i think the reason is because to cut down on poly counts they delete all the faces on the right hand side of the gun which you dont see. and as hl2 is so accurate they wouldnt want to just mirror it so that would meen having to have much higher poly rates for no good reason.

 

[Antiphon]

why does it matter? also i think the reason is because to cut down on poly counts they delete all the faces on the right hand side of the gun which you dont see. and as hl2 is so accurate they wouldnt want to just mirror it so that would meen having to have much higher poly rates for no good reason.

WHY DOES IT MATTER????? If f++++ng irritates when you play like that. Are you right handed??? Go on and play an Ego-shooter with the weapon on the left side, youll see!

 

[naaier]

open the script file of the weapon you want to change hand on,

under
"bucket_position" " "

add this

"BuiltRightHanded" "0"
"AllowFlipping" "1"

save it, the weapon should now be in the other hand.

 

[Antiphon]

Thanks, Naiier, but sadly i dont know anything about modding, i tried to look up some guides in the net, but its all chinese to me. First: where do i find the weapon scripts? Then: How do i edit them? With Notepad?
Sorry if youre laughing, but i really had not done anything with modding yet, I just want to have the weapons on the left as in CS.

 

[naaier]

sourcemods/name of mod/scripts

edit with notepad

 

[Antiphon]

oh, okay, thanks. But my question was intended for Single player regular Half-Life, but thanks anyways so i can use it in mods.

 

[naaier]

it'll work for sp hl2

 

[Antiphon]

And where do i find it? E:\Steam nothing. E:\Steam\SteamApps\antiphon120\half-life 2\hl2 still nothing
E:\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods empty.