ERROR: GAMEMODE:'Tick' Failed

[bender180]

I was working on a Proximity Bomb for my trouble in terrorist town server but when ever the weapon is on screen this error appears in console until the weapon is switched.

ERROR: GAMEMODE:'Tick' Failed: [gamemodes\terrortown\gamemode\player.lua:1109] attempt to call method 'GetIronsights' (a nil value)

i checked where the error is pointing to and all that on that line is

ply.scanner_weapon:Think()

Any Help is much appreciated

if it helps here is the code for the Weapon

if( SERVER ) then
	AddCSLuaFile( "shared.lua" );
end

if CLIENT then
   SWEP.PrintName                       = "Proximity Bomb"
   SWEP.Slot                            = 6
   SWEP.EquipMenuData = {
      type  = "item_weapon",
      name  = "Proximity Bomb",
      desc  = "Left Click To Set. Right Click to set Proximity Distance. Reload to reset distance."
   };
 

end

SWEP.Kind = WEAPON_EQUIP
SWEP.CanBuy = {ROLE_TRAITOR}
SWEP.WeaponID = AMMO_C4
SWEP.NoSights = true
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SWEP.NextPlant = 0;
SWEP.DetectRadius = 0;
SWEP.IncrementNumber = 50;
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SWEP.ViewModelFOV	= 62
SWEP.ViewModelFlip	= true
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SWEP.Spawnable			= false
SWEP.AdminSpawnable		= true
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SWEP.ViewModel      = "models/weapons/v_c4.mdl"
SWEP.WorldModel   = "models/weapons/w_c4.mdl"
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SWEP.Primary.Delay			= 0.9 	
SWEP.Primary.Recoil			= 0		
SWEP.Primary.Damage			= 7	
SWEP.Primary.NumShots		= 1		
SWEP.Primary.Cone			= 0 	
SWEP.Primary.ClipSize		= 1	
SWEP.Primary.DefaultClip	= 3	
SWEP.Primary.Automatic   	= false
SWEP.Primary.Ammo         	= "none"	
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SWEP.Secondary.Delay		= 0.9
SWEP.Secondary.Recoil		= 0
SWEP.Secondary.Damage		= 6
SWEP.Secondary.NumShots		= 1
SWEP.Secondary.Cone			= 0
SWEP.Secondary.ClipSize		= -1
SWEP.Secondary.DefaultClip	= -1
SWEP.Secondary.Automatic   	= false
SWEP.Secondary.Ammo         = "none"
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//Preload
util.PrecacheSound("weapons/c4/c4_beep1.wav")
util.PrecacheSound("weapons/c4/c4_plant.wav")
util.PrecacheSound("radio/bombpl.wav")

function SWEP:Initialize()
end

function SWEP:Precache()
end

function SWEP:Deploy()
	self.Weapon:EmitSound( "weapons/c4/c4_beep1.wav" );
	return true;
end

function SWEP:PrimaryAttack()
if( CurTime() < self.NextPlant ) then return; end
	self.NextPlant = ( CurTime() + .8 );
//
local trace = {}
trace.start = self.Owner:GetShootPos()
trace.endpos = self.Owner:GetShootPos() + self.Owner:GetAimVector() * 64
trace.mask = MASK_NPCWORLDSTATIC
trace.filter = self.Owner
local tr = util.TraceLine( trace )
//
	local ent = ents.Create ("planted_proxbomb");
if ( ent && ent != NULL ) then
	if ( tr.Hit ) then
	ent:SetPos (trace.endpos);
	ent:SetVar("Radius", self.DetectRadius)
	ent:SetVar("Owner", self.Owner)
	ent:Spawn();
	ent:Activate()
	self.Owner:EmitSound( "weapons/c4/c4_plant.wav" );	
    self.Owner:EmitSound( "radio/bombpl.wav" );
	self.Owner:SetAnimation(PLAYER_ATTACK1)
	self.Weapon:SendWeaponAnim(ACT_VM_HITCENTER)
	ent:GetTable():WallPlant( tr.HitPos + tr.HitNormal, tr.HitNormal )
	//Cleanup for sandbox
	cleanup.Add (self.Owner, "props", ent);
	undo.Create ("Proximity Bomb");
	undo.AddEntity (ent);
	undo.SetPlayer (self.Owner);
	undo.Finish(); 
	end
end
end

 function SWEP:Reload() 
 //Timer to stop chat overflow.
if( CurTime() < self.NextPlant ) then return; end
self.NextPlant = ( CurTime() + .2 );
self.DetectRadius = 0
self.Owner:ChatPrint("Proximity Radius has been reset to 0.");
 end  

function SWEP:SecondaryAttack()
if( CurTime() < self.NextPlant ) then return; end
self.NextPlant = ( CurTime() + .1 );
// Set Proximity Distance
self.DetectRadius = 70
self.Weapon:EmitSound( "weapons/c4/c4_beep1.wav" );
self.Owner:ChatPrint("Proximity Radius has been set to "..self.DetectRadius..".");
end 

Side note: this was something i found on garrymod.org that i am modifying to work with the ttt gamemode

[Infectious]

I checked the copy of player.lua in my Garry's Mod .gcf file, and the contents of that line for me are:

if ValidEntity(wep) and wep:GetIronsights() then

The gamemode assumes that the player's weapon has implemented a :GetIronSights() method somehow. Your code doesn't implement such a method for your weapon, so, naturally, when it indexes your weapon with "GetIronSights", it returns the value 'nil', and when it tries to call that value, you're getting that error.

Judging from the Terrortown code, I'm guessing that method indicates if the player is using the iron sights on the weapon or not. So the simplest solution would be to add this line to your code:

function SWEP:GetIronSights() return false end

[bender180]

[QUOTE=Infectious;37391549]I checked the copy of player.lua in my Garry's Mod .gcf file, and the contents of that line for me are:

if ValidEntity(wep) and wep:GetIronsights() then

The gamemode assumes that the player's weapon has implemented a :GetIronSights() method somehow. Your code doesn't implement such a method for your weapon, so, naturally, when it indexes your weapon with "GetIronSights", it returns the value 'nil', and when it tries to call that value, you're getting that error.

Judging from the Terrortown code, I'm guessing that method indicates if the player is using the iron sights on the weapon or not. So the simplest solution would be to add this line to your code:

function SWEP:GetIronSights() return false end[/QUOTE]

Alright thanks ill try that