Printing role specific text upon action

[seabeds]

I did look at [url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/chat/AddText[/url] and since i'm still learning lua, i am unable to put it together.

Example: upon purchasing a weapon on TTT, text will be placed in the traitor chat, including the person who purchased it's name. I am not looking to be spoonfed but a little help would be great

[whitestar]

make the player use say_team concommand? it'd make the player say it in the team chat, includes the name? Its the simplest solution

[seabeds]

[QUOTE=whitestar;49626250]make the player use say_team concommand? it'd make the player say it in the team chat, includes the name? Its the simplest solution[/QUOTE]

I see. Is there a function or hook for when a user purchases a traitor weapon?

[NiandraLades]

If you're ever unsure or in search of a hook, google it's name along with ttt or gmod or gmod wiki and you'll usually find a page with it

You're in luck, you can find exactly what you want here:
[url]http://ttt.badking.net/guides/hooks[/url]

[seabeds]

I am trying this:

function TestFunction(ply, equipment, is_item)
   if ( equipment == "weapon_ttt_bomb_station" ) then
      RunConsoleCommand("say_team" ..ply:Nick().. "has bought a bomb station!")
   end
end
hook.Add("TTTOrderedEquipment", "MyTTTEquipmentHook", TestFunction)

RunConsoleCommand: Command has invalid characters! (say_teamseabedshas bought a bomb station! (' '))
The first parameter of this function should contain only the command, the second parameter should contain arguments.

[KTBM]

[QUOTE=seabeds;49626713]I am trying this:

function TestFunction(ply, equipment, is_item)
   if ( equipment == "weapon_ttt_bomb_station" ) then
      RunConsoleCommand("say_team" ..ply:Nick().. "has bought a bomb station!")
   end
end
hook.Add("TTTOrderedEquipment", "MyTTTEquipmentHook", TestFunction)

RunConsoleCommand: Command has invalid characters! (say_teamseabedshas bought a bomb station! (' '))
The first parameter of this function should contain only the command, the second parameter should contain arguments.[/QUOTE]
do [lua] ply:ConCommand("say_team text")[/lua]

EDIT:

dosen't work

[Badger]

[QUOTE=seabeds;49626713]I am trying this:

function TestFunction(ply, equipment, is_item)
   if ( equipment == "weapon_ttt_bomb_station" ) then
      RunConsoleCommand("say_team" ..ply:Nick().. "has bought a bomb station!")
   end
end
hook.Add("TTTOrderedEquipment", "MyTTTEquipmentHook", TestFunction)

RunConsoleCommand: Command has invalid characters! (say_teamseabedshas bought a bomb station! (' '))
The first parameter of this function should contain only the command, the second parameter should contain arguments.[/QUOTE]

You shouldn't make the player say it, what I'd do is do a for loop through all the players checking if they're on a certain team using [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/Team]Player:Team[/url] and then send it from the server with [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/ChatPrint]Player:ChatPrint[/url].

...

The reason your code didn't work is because ".." doesn't create a space it just joins the two strings. And with RunConsoleCommand you need to seperate the arguments with a comma, instead.

function TestFunction(ply, equipment, is_item)
   if ( equipment == "weapon_ttt_bomb_station" ) then
      RunConsoleCommand("say_team", ply:Nick().. " has bought a bomb station!")
   end
end
hook.Add("TTTOrderedEquipment", "MyTTTEquipmentHook", TestFunction)

Would work much better.

////
Just updated it again, noticed I did something wrong :/

[seabeds]

[QUOTE=Promptitude;49629528]You shouldn't make the player say it, what I'd do is do a for loop through all the players checking if they're on a certain team using [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/Team]Player:Team[/url] and then send it from the server with [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/ChatPrint]Player:ChatPrint[/url].

...

The reason your code didn't work is because ".." doesn't create a space it just joins the two strings. And with RunConsoleCommand you need to seperate the arguments with a comma, instead.

function TestFunction(ply, equipment, is_item)
   if ( equipment == "weapon_ttt_bomb_station" ) then
      RunConsoleCommand("say_team", ply:Nick(), "has bought a bomb station!")
   end
end
hook.Add("TTTOrderedEquipment", "MyTTTEquipmentHook", TestFunction)

Would work much better.[/QUOTE]

Upon using that version, i receive the same error.

[seabeds]

How can i have a loop to check player's teams? That way i can use chatprint

[whitestar]

use a for loop and loop through player.GetAll(), then check the team with value:Team()

[seabeds]

hook.Add("ChatWarning", "Bomb", function(ply)
   if ply:HasEquipmentItem(EQUIP_BOMBSTATION) then
      for k,players in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
         if v:IsTraitor() then
            ply:ChatPrint( ply:Nick() .. " bought a bomb station!" )
         end
      end
   end
end)

Cannot spot the error, hmmm

[MysteryPancake]

for k,players in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
if v:IsTraitor() then

You never defined V -_-

Also, why are you doing

ply:ChatPrint( ply:Nick() .. " bought a bomb station!" )

That isn't going to work properly since you're printing it to the player's chat who bought the bomb thing (a ton of times for every traitor on the server)

[seabeds]

[QUOTE=MPan1;49636120]

for k,players in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
if v:IsTraitor() then

You never defined V -_-

Also, why are you doing

ply:ChatPrint( ply:Nick() .. " bought a bomb station!" )

That isn't going to work properly since you're printing it to the player's chat who bought the bomb thing (a ton of times for every traitor on the server)[/QUOTE]

Alright, did you read OP?

[MysteryPancake]

[QUOTE=seabeds;49636133]Alright, did you read OP?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I did?
I'm not spoonfeeding you if that's what you mean since I'm not really telling you what to do, just pointing out what the problem is

[editline]30th January 2016[/editline]

Also, (this might be wrong since I don't know about TTT), but the ChatWarning hook probably wouldn't be called when a player buys a bomb station unless it does some kind of warning for some odd reason