Designing the new PhysGun

paypal me $5000 this is my life's work

aw shit wait i forgot about the made from scraps

Think it should look somewhat simplistic so it looks nice + easy to create cosmetics for it
(glowing blue would work well)

Would be fun if it could be even more DIY like the rust guns tbf

made this garbage model as a placeholder for sandbox classic, before the rewrite.

why make physgun and toolgun separately if you can make a choice of toolgun tools in a circular menu or something like that

I'm posting the concept arts that Dolegrips made back in the day just because they're awesome, but maybe can get some inspiration ;-)

It depends, how much of the soy face point finger "omg guys it's garry mod!" value do you still want. roughly the original shape should do, Just look at some early concepts for the hl2 grav gun and take from that.

a black hole inside of it , shooting a ray , make sense when you manipulate gravitation .
ill post a realtime concept of it , just drawing it 

no gun, just give terry/humans long arms. no need to thank me facepunch

Just do it with finger movements like casting magic 

fast concepts 

ok so i tried making my own gravity gun out of free sketchfab models. Looks very shitty and scuffed  Literally assembled it from scraps lol

I really want new gravity gun to keep the same silhouette (cylinder and 2 grips) as the original one. The way you hold it is just cool idk

(credits to original model creators. Everything here is taken from sketchfab)

One of these Tesla coil guns with some extra shit attached could be cool

imagine cosmetics potential 

Will my upload work now?

Yes

I think whatever it is, little claws on the front are necessary. anything else looks kind of sad.

A lot of these look like a gun, but it should look more like a tool. Like a jackhammer for grabbing stuff.

Object manipulator gadget. The gadget has two parts, a handheld gun part, and a backpack. The gun uses a strange blue "string like" beam that glows slightly. The beam is usually stored in the backpack but is connected to the back of the tool, when it is used, the "beam" is fed through the back of the gun out of the front of the gun towards the object meant to be manipulated. Once the object is let go of, the "beam" is retracted back into the backpack.

A lot of these are kinda AI slop-ish. But there are some good ideas in there. 

I think it being two-handed gave it a lot of character. And I agree that it looking more like a tool/gadget than a weapon is a good thing.

Could be cool if there was a "fluid" tank in the tool that used the Half Life Alyx bottle shader.

And another totally random concept:

Repurposed vibes. 

Ok that's enough AI slop from me. Good luck Garry!

I've had this disassembled reciprocating saw for a while and thought it could be good inspiration:

Front End:

.. and here's just some stock images of what it usually looks like

Randomly had the thought that maybe a one handed physgun would be better for VR gamemodes.

is this good?

Boneworkss did a pretty good job with the physgun, I liked the ball on the back for vr controls. You grab it and twist it around / pull it back to manipulate the object.

I think it should be a "fork" of original Physgun/Gravitygun. Maybe I'll post sth later, if I'll draw/model it.

turn it into something that looks like a ghostbusters proton pack

Here's my unique take.
So if had to make a diy phys gun in my house what would i use and with what logic.

So I would use A Blowdryer (looks like a gun) with a overclocked fan and some nubs to control it. and the well known claw in front  taken from a claw game.  Holding a blue orb of grabing in place.

I imagen the claw contracts as you pull on the trigger as if you are grabing a thing with the force.

 I asked GPT and this is what i got: 

Then Finally I kit-bashed all the AI gen stuff to make what i Imagined:

black might not be the best fit but you get the idea.

Plus you will get your best and last hair drying experience

I do like the boxy look of #16 personally.
What I think would be really nice is to have a secondary (side?) screen or a bigger main screen, for tools to be able to show a bit more info about its settings.

Pistol Physics gun

edit: Generated another one. This one kind of has that kit bashed vibe. (Although it's not as glowy)