How do I make an entity remove itself after 10 seconds?

[Chad Mobile]

I'm working on a requested project and I ran into a snag:
How do I make the entity remove itself after 10 seconds?
I tried using this:
[lua]
function enddummy()
Ent:Remove()
end
[/lua]
And then in the spawn function I did this:
[lua]
function ENT:SpawnFunction( ply, tr )
if ( !tr.Hit ) then return end
local ent = ents.Create("ent_poop")
ent:SetMaterial("models/shiny") --This works
ent:SetColor(63,60,60,140) --This works too
ent:SetPos( tr.HitPos + tr.HitNormal * 16 )
ent:Spawn()
ent:Activate()
timer.Simple( 1, enddummy ) --This is where I get an error

return ent
end
[/lua]

My error is:

Timer Error: entities/ent_poop/init.lua:73: attempt to index global 'Ent' (a nil value)

Anyone know a fix to this? :wookie:

[Bkacjios]

[lua]timer.Simple( 10, function()
if IsValid( self ) then
self:Remove()
end
end )[/lua]

[MegaJohnny]

As an alternative:

[lua]
function ENT:Initialize()
--some other code
self:Fire("kill", "", 10)
end
[/lua]

But given the choice I'd probably do blackops' solution. Seems better.

[Chad Mobile]

[QUOTE=blackops7799;20352078]timer.Simple( 10, function()
if IsValid( self ) then
self:Remove()
end
end )[/QUOTE]
This doesn't work. :frown:

[disseminate]

Are you using a function that has the format ENT:xyz()?

[Chad Mobile]

I used
[lua]
timer.Simple( 10, function()
if IsValid( self ) then
self:Remove()
end
end )
[/lua]
And it just didn't do anything.
Now I'm just trying to use
[lua]
function ENT:Use(activator)
self.Entity:Remove()
end
[/lua]
And that doesn't even work :confused:
I'm putting it in the init.lua, where it should go.

[sintwins]

The function doesn't know what self is. Put this in your initialise or spawn function.

[lua]

timer.Simple( 1, function()
self.Entity:Remove()
end )

[/lua]

[Nev]

Why not use an already [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.SafeRemoveEntityDelayed]existing function[/url]:

[lua]SafeRemoveEntityDelayed( self, 10 );[/lua]

[MakeR]

[QUOTE=iRzilla;20381020]You can't code for shit.[/QUOTE]

I agree, but I wouldn't have put it so harshly.

[sintwins]

Lol, thanks guys :( In my defense I only started learning coding around one month ago. WIth lua being my first language.

[sintwins]

Ok then, what is so bad with that code I posted?

[MakeR]

[QUOTE=sintwins;20381486]Lol, thanks guys :( In my defense I only started learning coding around one month ago. WIth lua being my first language.[/QUOTE]

Most people would be far past the stage of making trivial syntax errors in Lua a month in from learning.

[editline]07:31PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=sintwins;20382109]Ok then, what is so bad with that code I posted?[/QUOTE]

Trivial syntax errors.

[Chad Mobile]

At least he's trying to learn :j: