Sharing PlayerInitialSpawn with Client

[DEFCON1]

Hi,

I'm trying to replicate the server hook PlayerInitialSpawn clientside, here is what I have:

if ( SERVER ) then

	hook.Add( "PlayerInitialSpawn", "myscript_sv_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn",
		function( ply )
			util.AddNetworkString( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn" );
			net.Start( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn" )
			net.Send( ply )
		end
	)

else

	net.Receive( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn",
		function( len, ply )
			print( tostring( ply ) .. " " .. tostring( LocalPlayer() ) )
		end
	)

end

But this prints "nil [NULL Entity]"...

What can I do, is there a better way than what I'm trying to do? I would like to replicate many server hooks on the client, because I don't understand why they aren't shared :S

Thanks in advance.

[EvacX]

You're sending an empty message to the player who spawned and then you're trying to use the 2nd parameter on a clientside net.Receive callback which doesn't exist (that's for when the client sends the server a message, it identifies who sent it).

[b][url=http://gmodwiki.net/Lua/Libraries/net/WriteEntity]Lua/Libraries/net/WriteEntity[img]http://gmodwiki.net/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]

Also, put util.AddNetworkString outside the hook callback.

[Rubat]

You don't even need to send the player object, it will be nil on client anyway AFAIK ( Because LocalPlayer is nil, the entity for localplayer is not initialized yet. ), make a timer of 0 seconds and use LocalPlayer()

[DEFCON1]

Thanks, but it's still not working correctly:

if ( SERVER ) then

	util.AddNetworkString( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn" );
	hook.Add( "PlayerInitialSpawn", "myscript_sv_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn",
		function( ply )
			net.Start( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn" )
			net.WriteEntity( ply )
			--net.Send( ply )
			net.Broadcast()
		end
	)

else

	net.Receive( "myscript_cl_hooks_PlayerInitialSpawn",
		function( len )
			print( tostring( net.ReadEntity() ) )
		end
	)

end

When I spawn on the server for the first time, it prints "[NULL Entity]".
And when another player join the server and spawn for the first time, I see "Player [2][nick]", while he will see "[NULL Entity]" :/

Edit: Ok Robotboy, I was hoping that I would not need to use a timer or some other crappy workaround that I used to use, years ago...

[brandonj4]

You can use the [URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/OnEntityCreated"]OnEntityCreated[/URL] hook as well and check if it's the LocalPlayer()

[Acecool]

PlayerInitialSpawn is called during Sending Client Info, or just before. The player hasn't fully initialized at this point. You could do a hack and use a timer, or what brandon says; when the entity is created - send the net message.

No need to send the player info, just send an empty net message to the client like so:

[lua]util.AddNetworkString( "ClientPlayerInitialSpawn" );
net.Start( "ClientPlayerInitialSpawn" );

// Send it to the connecting player, or if everyone needs to know about it
net.Send( ply );

// this is the or
net.Broadcast( );[/lua]

Do not use both Send and Broadcast, one or the other...

[DEFCON1]

Thanks all ;)