Strange error in my SENT?

[Lee Dumber]

Hi. I've been making a SENT for a friend's server and I keep getting a strange error when I spawn it. Can anyone help me figure out why it's doing this?

function ENT:Initialize()
	ENT:SetModel("models/props/cs_office/plant01.mdl")
	ENT:SetSkin(0)
	ENT:PhysicsInit(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
	ENT:SetMoveType(MOVETYPE_VPHYSICS)
	ENT:SetSolid(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
	ENT:SetUseType(SIMPLE_USE)
	local phys = ENT:GetPhysicsObject()
	if phys and phys:IsValid() then phys:Wake() end
end

The above code in init.lue give me this:

[lua\entities\plant\init.lua:7] attempt to index global 'ENT' (a nil value)

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[Dizla]

Use 'self' rather than ENT.

So, it'd be like this:

[QUOTE=Lee Dumber;36679713]

function ENT:Initialize()
	self:SetModel("models/props/cs_office/plant01.mdl")
	self:SetSkin(0)
	self:PhysicsInit(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
	self:SetMoveType(MOVETYPE_VPHYSICS)
	self:SetSolid(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
	self:SetUseType(SIMPLE_USE)
	local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()
	if phys and phys:IsValid() then phys:Wake() end
end

[/QUOTE]

[Lee Dumber]

[QUOTE=Dizla;36679722]Use 'self' rather than ENT.

So, it'd be like this:[/QUOTE]

Thank you! This solved the problem perfectly.

[Dizla]

[QUOTE=Lee Dumber;36679768]Thank you! This solved the problem perfectly.[/QUOTE]

Hopefully you understand why, that is the most important part. No problem, however :)

[Lee Dumber]

[QUOTE=Dizla;36679796]Hopefully you understand why, that is the most important part. No problem, however :)[/QUOTE]
Is it because the function is part of ENT so its code needs to use self to refer to ENT?

[Dizla]

[QUOTE=Lee Dumber;36679820]Is it because the function is part of ENT so its code needs to use self to refer to ENT?[/QUOTE]

Yeah! Bang on. I'd rather people learned than just copy+pasted and forgot about it!

[Lee Dumber]

[QUOTE=Dizla;36679866]Yeah! Bang on. I'd rather people learned than just copy+pasted and forgot about it![/QUOTE]
Thanks. I'm new to Lua but I'm learning some now that I have a project to focus on.