Random Ent Spawns from table with Vector Values

[MGCLegend]

I am trying to spawn an entity with random map spawns from a table...

Here is the code I have:

	local goldpropSpawns = {
	Vector( -2825.641357, 1420.374146, -3504.891846);
	Vector(-3366.608398, 1450.263184, -3523.183350);
	Vector(-5391.474121, 693.360962, -3518.278564);
	Vector(-4493.145996, 439.987610, -3521.404053);
	Vector( -3952.261963, 582.641602, -3519.968750);
	Vector( -3802.943604, 1792.913818, -3507.057617);
	Vector( -2268.290039, 1683.261597, 69.526070);
	Vector( -1944.526611, 4118.445801, 83.076447);
	Vector( -201.243225, 3668.999023, 87.421951);
	Vector( -2071.832275, 2530.378418, 65.843414);
	Vector( -2807.138672, -295.113617, 106.355247);
	Vector(-3002.123779, 558.179932, 61.393742);
	Vector( -4178.655273, 2861.287354, 54.987335);
	Vector( -5955.591797, 2358.774658, -96.954010);
	Vector( -5057.796875, 2933.024170, 65.260193);
	Vector( -6776.100586, 2178.492432, 67.716553);
	Vector( -6641.131836, 2950.413818, 57.023567);
	Vector(  -5462.553223, 7227.875977, 145.432922);
};

	
	function SpawnGoldenProp()
local ent = ents.Create("goldenprop") -- This creates our zombie entity
ent:SetPos(table.Random(goldpropSpawns))

ent:Spawn()
ent:Activate()

end

I do not believe I can do that this way since the Vector's have commas in them...

How could I do this?

[Mista Tea]

[QUOTE]ent:SetPos(table.Random([U][B]SpawnTests[/B][/U]))[/QUOTE]

Is SpawnTests defined somewhere other than the snippet you pasted, or did you mean to use 'goldpropSpawns', since that's the name of the table you created.

[MGCLegend]

Yeah that was a test I used with two values in the array instead of all of the ones I posted. Even with just the two obvious values it would not spawn.

[Mista Tea]

Unless I am entirely mistaken, you need to replace the semicolons at the end of each Vector in the table with a comma, i.e.:

local goldpropSpawns = {
    Vector( -2825.641357, 1420.374146, -3504.891846 ),
    Vector( -3366.608398, 1450.263184, -3523.183350 ),
    Vector( -5391.474121, 693.360962,  -3518.278564 ),
    Vector( -4493.145996, 439.987610,  -3521.404053 ),
    Vector( -3952.261963, 582.641602,  -3519.968750 ),
    Vector( -3802.943604, 1792.913818, -3507.057617 ),
    Vector( -2268.290039, 1683.261597, 69.526070 ),
    Vector( -1944.526611, 4118.445801, 83.076447 ),
    Vector( -201.243225,  3668.999023, 87.421951 ),
    Vector( -2071.832275, 2530.378418, 65.843414 ),
    Vector( -2807.138672, -295.113617, 106.355247 ),
    Vector( -3002.123779, 558.179932,  61.393742 ),
    Vector( -4178.655273, 2861.287354, 54.987335 ),
    Vector( -5955.591797, 2358.774658, -96.954010 ),
    Vector( -5057.796875, 2933.024170, 65.260193 ),
    Vector( -6776.100586, 2178.492432, 67.716553 ),
    Vector( -6641.131836, 2950.413818, 57.023567 ),
    Vector( -5462.553223, 7227.875977, 145.432922 ),
}

[MGCLegend]

You are mistaken, Semi-colons work the same way in arrays.

[Mista Tea]

Neat, I wasn't aware of that.

What are you actually having issues with then? I don't particularly see anything wrong with what you're attempting, given what you have so far.

The only possible issue I see is that you're not setting the model on the entity you are creating, but that might be just how I've always done it and seen it done.

[MGCLegend]

The entity itself has the model set inside of the goldenprop.lua inside the entities folder.

The issue, I believe, is that the commas inside the Vector values are causing Lua to believe I am seperating the contents within the array at the commas for the vector positions.

Most arrays are in string or double values and none I've seen before have a comma within a array locker...

Lua must be trying to put all the Vectors into seperate lockers and instead of what I want it to do, it seems to be doing this because of where the commas are located:

local goldpropSpawns = []
	goldpropSpawns[0] = Vector( -2825.641357 
	goldpropSpawns[1] = 1420.374146 
	goldpropSpawns[2] = -3504.891846)

[Shinycow]

Your code looks fine to me. Are there any errors? -snip bad reading-

Besides this line
ent:SetPos(table.Random(goldpropSpawns)

you forgot to add an extra ')' to the end

[Dgc2002]

I'm not sure if I came up with a stupid solution that wasn't needed or a silly solution that was, but this is how I've done it:

Positions = {"-2460.031250, 1143.031250, -131.968750",
"-3206.575439, 1060.031250, -131.968750", 
"-4681.512207, 1956.396484, -139.968750"}

        local rnd = math.random( 1, #Positions )

	for i in string.gmatch( Positions[rnd]:gsub(',', ''), "%S+") do
		table.insert(SpawnVectorTable, i)
	end

	SpawnVector.x = SpawnVectorTable[1]
	SpawnVector.y = SpawnVectorTable[2]
	SpawnVector.z = SpawnVectorTable[3]

Then set your ent pos to SpawnVector

[MGCLegend]

Rating him dumb for what I actually needed?

Thank you for doing that. I was actually in the process of making my own tables for x, y, and z all by hand...this makes that much easier

[Mista Tea]

I'm not having any issue doing the following, which is essentially the same as yours:

local spawns = {
    Vector( 0, 0, 0 );
    Vector( 500, 500, 500 );
    Vector( 1000, 1000, 1000 );
}

function spawnTest()
    local ent = ents.Create( "prop_physics" )
    ent:SetModel( "models/Cranes/crane_frame.mdl" )
    ent:SetPos( table.Random( spawns ) )
    ent:Spawn()
    ent:Activate()
end

The prop spawns in correctly at one of the randomly chosen vectors in the table every time I call the function.

I just tested it using your vectors and it still works fine.

[MGCLegend]

You are exactly correct. Upon moving it further up the chain in my init file, it worked...

Seems I may have another issue unforeseen that breaks nothing but what I was working on...

Oh, Lua, my hero.

Thank you Mista Tea for helping me out and thanks to Dgc for the random table enterer thing..