How to get viewmodels to not clip thru walls

[dthecoolest]

As @FloofyNezzled said but with a video and code example:

Prevent weapon clipping (How does Tunneler do it?)

Obviously can’t confirm this, but it’s possible the portal gun is actually very small, but extremely close to the camera so it appears to be normal size? This was a trick people used before viewport frames were a thing to get the same effect. There’s still the possibility for clipping when extremely close and you can’t scale the mesh too small or the near clipping plane Z won’t render your model (as shown in video), but with the right value you get the effect in the OP It’s worth noting you’d …