weapon- entity relations

[Kruel Kramer]

how exactly can i get an entity to relate to a weapon?

i need to know this so i can set the secondary to create a 30 sec timer to destroy the ent that you spawn with primary fire.

Such as this:
[lua]
//--its a bit hacky, but it should get the point acrost.--
function SWEP.SecondaryFire()
GetEntity(S) ("RP_Bomb")
if entity. isValid then
(play bomb code input animation)
Timer.Create("boomtimer",3,0)---[takes three seconds before it calls function below]---
function StartBoom()
GetEntity("rp_bomb")
if entity.IsValid then
ent.Activate()
end
elseif entity.IsNotValid then
HUD.PrintCenter ("No bombs Deployed")
end
end
[/lua]

[Entoros]

Your code is pretty awful. It barely passes as pseudo code. However, based on what you said, I think you're looking for something like this:

[lua]function SWEP:SecondaryFire()
local ent = self.Owner:GetEyeTrace().Entity;
if not ValidEntity( ent ) then self.Owner:ChatPrint("That is not a valid entity!"); return; end
timer.Simple( 30, function()
if ( ValidEntity( ent ) ) then
ent:Remove();
end
-- replace ent:Remove() with your explosion code. just do whatever the hell you want with the entity object
end);
end[/lua]

[Kruel Kramer]

very very close..
what i want it to do is apply the Explosion code to all current entities, owned BY YOU, and is the entity by the name of "rp_bomb"

this taught me some though. thanks

[editline]02:54AM[/editline]

[lua]
function SWEP:SecondaryFire()
local ent = ents.GetByName("rp_bomb")
if ent.IsValid then
self.Owner:ChatPrint("Bomb(s) Armed!")
timer.Simple( 30, function()
--(explode code here)
end)
elseif not ent.IsValid then
self.Owner:ChatPrint("No Bombs Deployed.")
return false
end
end
[/lua]

Basically this is what i want to happen

If the entity(s) by the name of "rp_bomb" exist and are yours, then make THEM ALL explode.

[slay3r36]

you can use DTVar : [lua]function ENT:SetupDataTables()
self:DTVar("Entity", 0, "owner")
end[/lua]
in shared of your entity then when you spawn it do[lua]ent.dt.owner = self.owner[/lua]
to check if the player is the owner just do [lua]if self.owner == ent.dt.owner then --[[...]] end[/lua]

[MegaJohnny]

Are you sure the owner needs to be networked? It's only the server that needs to remember the owner so it knows which bombs to explode.