is there any way to change a NPC or player to an entity and vice versa?

[fenderex]

Hey I was wondering is there any way to change a NPC or player to an entity and vice versa?

[Chessnut]

They're already entities?

[fenderex]

no all entities COULD be players and you can call some of the players functions on a entity but there are some limitations maybe its because im new to lua... but i do know how to code... but a handful of functions i wanted to call where not shared between ent and players. I found a way to get around all the trubles so far but i thought it would be a nice function.

[Revenge282]

Players and NPCs are entities. Therefore, any function belonging to the entity class you can call on a player or an NPC, not vice versa. Hierarchy/inheritance is the first thing you should have learned about programming.

[fenderex]

I know about inheritance I mainly work in python XD but you explained it better than I did :). here is a example of where entitys fail.

local player = self:GetOwner()
if ( !(player.IsAdmin())&&trace.Entity:IsPlayer() ) then return false end

[Revenge282]

[QUOTE=fenderex;48192698]I know about inheritance I mainly work in python XD but you explained it better than I did :). here is a example of where entitys fail.

local player = self:GetOwner()
if ( !(player.IsAdmin())&&trace.Entity:IsPlayer() ) then return false end

[/QUOTE]

How about player:IsAdmin() rather than player.IsAdmin()?

Also, bad practice to create variables with the same name as other libraries. (ie. player, math, cam, etc.)

[fenderex]

haha true i do stupid things like that alot with new library XD player should have stood out to me lol.
thank you for the help XD