StrataSource
Feature: prop_static_override
Which component should be improved?
Entity
Describe your feature suggestion in more detail
Functions like any override prop entity.
Props uncompiled with $staticprop should be available to use in prop_static_override for static props.
Is there any reason it isn't in vanilla Portal 2 / any source branch.
There is a reason there's no override for static props. For efficiency, static prop rendering skips applying the animation's transform, meaning the prop will be put into the original geometry orientation. Depending on how the prop was authored, this might not even be one of the idle poses available normally and could be some broken pose, or something like a T-pose. $staticprop removes all the bones, meaning that there's no change. This shouldn't be changed since it'd decrease prop performance, so this override would only really work with certain props.
I suggested on Discord allowing any single-bone model to be used. It'd probably make sense to just change normal static props to behave this way, rather than adding a new entity. The "static" checkbox in the model browser would also be updated to match.
As craftable brought up on Discord, it may be more beneficial and easier to make this a postcompiler entity, as that already decompiles the models.
That could be tricky - my code for QC parsing and whatnot isn't too robust, it works because I know it only needs to handle static prop stuff.