Player.GetEyeTrace() Problem

[Jakfrost944]

Hello

I am having a problem with this function. My code gives no errors, but does not work until I run gamemode_reload in console. What I am trying to do is get the entity that the player is looking at and network it, so I can get that entity's networked damage int for my damage system, to show the entity's damage as a HUD Element. I think this should be possible fully client side, but I've had similar problems with it, and a think'd error before I run gamemode_reload. After I run this console command, everything works perfectly. Thank you for your time in reading/responding.

The first code is the server side code, and the second is the client side. They are both included in a gamemode.

function GM:Think()
	allply = player.GetAll()
	for k, v in pairs( allply ) do
		if v:GetEyeTrace().Entity:IsValid() then
			v:SetNWEntity( "lookent", v:GetEyeTrace().Entity )
			v:SetNWInt("drawdmgbox", 1 )
		else
			v:SetNWInt("drawdmgbox", 0 )
		end
	end
end

ply = LocalPlayer()

function GM:HUDPaint()

	drawdmg = ply:GetNWInt( "drawdmgbox" )
	lookent = ply:GetNWEntity( "lookent" )

	local textdata = {}
	textdata.pos = {}
	textdata.pos[1] = ScrW()-82
	textdata.pos[2] = ScrH()*0.3 - 1
	textdata.color = Color(255, 255, 255, 255)
	textdata.font = "HUDNumber5"
	textdata.xalign = TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT
	textdata.yalign = TEXT_ALIGN_TOP
	
	if drawdmg == 1 then

		health = lookent:GetNWInt( "wl_health" )

		if health > 0 then
			textdata.text = tostring( health )
		else
			textdata.text = "?"
		end

		draw.RoundedBox( 6, ScrW()-90, ScrH()*0.3, 100, 40, Color( 0, 0, 0, 150 ) )
		draw.Text( textdata )

	end

end

[Lord Ned]

I don't get it, you're passing the entity to the client, and then getting a "wl_health" NW'd int off of it.

Why not just pass the NW int in the first place? What is wl_health?W here's it getting assigned?

[Jakfrost944]

[QUOTE=Lord Ned;26536069]I don't get it, you're passing the entity to the client, and then getting a "wl_health" NW'd int off of it.

Why not just pass the NW int in the first place? What is wl_health?W here's it getting assigned?[/QUOTE]
Oh, right. Idk why I had it in my head to do it this way.... Really tired I guess. Thanks, I'll see if this works and put results here. That is a much better way of doing it, but I'm not thinking it will fix this problem.
I should have put all of the relevant code. I have a damage system, and wl_health is the entity's health. I know this probably isn't the most efficient way to make a damage system, but it works.

-- Add entities to the preset max health list here.  This will override the weight-dependant method
entListHealth = {}
entListHealth["gmod_turret"] = 100
entListHealth["gmod_wire_expression2"] = 10
entListHealth["gmod_wire_gate"] = 10

--topclamp = 10000
--CreateConVar( "war_maxenthealth", "10000", { FCVAR_REPLICATED, FCVAR_ARCHIVE } )
--cvars.AddChangeCallback("war_maxenthealth", setTopClamp)

--function setTopClamp(CVar, PValue, NValue)
--	print("Max entity health changed from "..PValue.." to "..NValue.."!")
--	topClamp = NValue
--end

function GM:OnEntityCreated( ent )

	ent:SetNetworkedInt( "wl_damage", 0 )

end


function GM:EntityTakeDamage( ent, inflictor, attacker, amount, damageinfo )

	if !ent:IsPlayer() then
		
		maxhealth = ent:GetPhysicsObject():GetMass()
		for k, v in pairs(entListHealth) do
			if ent:GetClass() == k then
				maxhealth = v
			end
		end
		maxhealth = math.Clamp( maxhealth, 1, 10000 )

		curdamage = ent:GetNetworkedInt( "wl_damage" )
		newdamage = ( curdamage + amount )
		ent:SetNetworkedInt( "wl_damage", newdamage)
		ent:SetNetworkedInt( "wl_maxhealth", maxhealth )

		health = maxhealth - newdamage
		ent:SetNetworkedInt( "wl_health", health )
		if health <= 0 then
			ent:Remove()
			effectdata = EffectData()
			effectdata:SetStart( ent:GetPos() )
			effectdata:SetOrigin( ent:GetPos() )
			effectdata:SetScale( 1 )
			util.Effect( "Explosion", effectdata )
		end
	end

end

[b]EDIT:[/b] Rewrote it how you said to, no change.