Best hook for drawing avatars once on the HUD? (InitPostEntity doesnt seem to be working)

[Chizbang]

For some reason (although this could be due to me running in single player and not on a server) the InitPostEntity hook isnt calling at all.. I cant draw my avatar on a HUD im working on as a result. Are there any other hooks I can use?
This is how im using my InitPostEntity hook:
[lua]
hook.Add("InitPostEntity","DrawAvatarRightFuckingNow", function()
DrawAvatar()
print("hi")
end)
[/lua]

That hi message isnt appearing anywhere, I have tried making it longer incase I missed it but nope.

[boxama]

You don't really need a hook for it. Just putting it inside the file without a hook seems to work fine for me:
[lua]if not HUD.Avatar then

HUD.Avatar = vgui.Create( "AvatarImage" )
HUD.Avatar:SetSize( 32, 32 )
HUD.Avatar:SetPos( 2.5, 2.5 )
HUD.Avatar:SetVisible( false )
HUD.Avatar:SetDrawOnTop( true )
HUD.Avatar.Think = function()

if gui.IsGameUIVisible() or gui.IsConsoleVisible() then

HUD.Avatar:SetVisible( false )

end

end

end[/lua]

[Zephruz]

Pretty sure with an AvatarImage you have to set the player or you'll just get a question mark image.

if not HUD.Avatar then

	HUD.Avatar = vgui.Create( "AvatarImage" )
	HUD.Avatar:SetSize( 32, 32 )
	HUD.Avatar:SetPos( 2.5, 2.5 )
	HUD.Avatar:SetVisible( false )
	HUD.Avatar:SetDrawOnTop( true )
	HUD.Avatar:SetPlayer( LocalPlayer(), 64 )
	HUD.Avatar.Think = function()

		if gui.IsGameUIVisible() or gui.IsConsoleVisible() then

			HUD.Avatar:SetVisible( false )

		end

	end

end

[boxama]

Yes, but it appears, and that's what his question was asking about. I just posted this here because it's what I have (just as an example). I automatically hide it once it's created, though.

[Zephruz]

I thought gui.IsGameUIVisible() hides it if the main menu's open and gui.IsConsoleVisible() hides it when the console's open.
I see a ton of servers that have the problem where their HUD AvatarImage is overlapping the main menu which gets quite annoying.

[boxama]

Oh, it does, the hiding is also done in a HUDPaint hook for no reason at all, that handles it for me.
I agree, the instant I noticed how the avatar image was visible in the menu I added the Think to ensure it never appeared in the menu.

[rejax]

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look into panel:SetPaintedManually() and panel:PaintManual()

Also you don't need that think hook check, just use panel:ParentToHUD()