Spawn Entity on Initialize

[Pazda]

Hi

I'm making an addon with an NPC. Everything is working, but I can't figure out how to make it so that the NPC spawns at a certain pos & angle when the map initializes. How would I go about doing this? right now I have in the addonname/lua/entities/entityname/init.lua:

function GM:Initialize()
    self:Spawn()
    self:SetPos( -159.360626 -970.589050 -131.968750 )
    self:SetAngle( 0,0,0 )
end

But that didn't quite work, lol. Could nayone help me out with this?

Thanks :)

[xav]

You need to use the PostInitEntity hook instead. That's when you can begin interacting with entities.

[editline]15th July 2015[/editline]

Also, the variable 'self' won't be what you expect it to be in that hook. Read this for a better understanding of it: [url]http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html[/url]

You'll want to create a new entity using [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/ents/Create]ents.Create[/url].

Something like this:

local myEnt = ents.Create("Class_Of_Your_Entity")
myEnt:Spawn()
myEnt:...

[Pazda]

I replaced Initialize with InitPostEntity, with no luck. Same with adding the variable thing. Current code:

function GM:InitPostEntity()
    local myEnt = ents.Create("npc_seller")
    myEnt:SetModel( "models/Barney.mdl" )
    myEnt:SetPos( Vector( -159.36, -970.5, -132 ) )
    myEnt:Spawn()
end

[Mrkrabz]

Use a hook rather than overwriting the function

[lua]
hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "spawnnpc", function()
local myEnt = ents.Create("npc_seller")
myEnt:SetModel( "models/Barney.mdl" )
myEnt:SetPos( Vector( -159.36, -970.5, -132 ) )
myEnt:Spawn()
end )
[/lua]

If that still doesn't work, is by any chance your entities base base_nextbot? I've noticed some issues with spawning them in on that hook.

[Pazda]

Woohoo! That worked! Thanks!

[Pjazerlazer]

lol had that question too Thanks for clearing it up XD

[Pazda]

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