Entity spawning

[Skashh]

I was wondering how to spawn an entity like when the server starts or even just like on a timer since obviously I can't put it in ENT:Initialize since that's right after the entity spawns.

cl_init:

include("shared.lua")

shared:

ENT.Type = "anim"
ENT.Base = "base_gmodentity"
ENT.PrintName = "Cocaine Plant"
ENT.Author = "Skashh"
ENT.Spawnable = true

init:

AddCSLuaFile("cl_init.lua")
AddCSLuaFile("shared.lua")
include("shared.lua")

function ENT:Initialize()
	self:SetModel( "models/props/cs_office/plant01.mdl" )

	self:SetMoveType( MOVETYPE_VPHYSICS )
	self:SetSolid( SOLID_VPHYSICS )

	if ( SERVER ) then self:PhysicsInit( SOLID_VPHYSICS ) end

	local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()
	if ( IsValid( phys ) ) then phys:Wake() end

	self:SetPos(Vector(-2268, -152, -132))
end

function PlayerPickup( ply, ent )
	if (ply:IsValid()) then
		return true
	end
end
hook.Add( "PhysgunPickup", "Allow Player Pickup", PlayerPickup )

[editline]21st December 2015[/editline]

Also this is on my darkrp test server and I don't want it to spawn from the F4 menu I want it to spawn automatically at the position I set. xP

[Stalinalive]

Could you just tell me the directorys you have in your npc's folder like NPC/lua/

[Skashh]

1. I couldn't find NPC/lua/ anywhere, 2. I didn't think this would have anything to do with NPC's I'm just wondering how I spawn my entity at a certain position, like if there was a hook for that or something. xP

[Stalinalive]

Okay Go into Lua/ autorun/ Server create a new lua file

and do something like this!

hook.Add("InitPostEntity", "spawnnpc", function()
	local npc = ents.Create("npc_something") -- THIS HAS TO BE THE Name of your entitys folder
	npc:SetPos(Vector(-219.683640, -16.870455, 64.031250 )) -- position
	npc:SetAngles(Angle(9.524036, -46.654648, 0.000000)) -- angles
	npc:Spawn() -- this spawns the entity 
end)

This should help [URL="https://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index7853.html"]NpcShop[/URL]

[editline]22nd December 2015[/editline]

And heres a working example that spawns the entity also [URL="https://garrysmods.org/download/1821/shop-npc-examplezip"]In case your interested[/URL]

[Skashh]

That worked thanks!