Velocity meter hud

[LODY]

I want to make a real time velocity gauge hud, I used [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Creating_a_HUD]this great hud tutorial[/url] to achieve this:
[img]http://up.1337.jp/vel3.jpg[/img]
( this obviously showing hp and not velocity )

[url=http://up.1337.jp/vel.jpg]And this is what I want to achieve.[/url]

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[Dragge]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Entity.GetVelocity[/url]

And you got brackets on line 120. Make that:
[lua]
if !client:Alive() then return end
[/lua]

Next Day:
Well, Did that solve your problem?

[LODY]

edit: I am blind, I need to look 2 lines down sometimes.

local text = string.format( "Velocity: %i", client:GetVelocity():Length( ) ); -- get velocity text
good_hud:PaintText( cx, cy, text, vars.font, colors.text ); -- paint health text and health bar
good_hud:PaintBar( cx, cy + by, bar_width, vars.bar_height, colors.health_bar, client:GetVelocity():Length( ) / 1024 ); -- paint the bar

Can someone verify that I didn't make a noob mistake / if there are any improvements that can be made?
This is my first day doing lua.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaddmHRUxBA[/media]
in action

[c-unit]

Is this client-sided? I would love for you to release this code..would work great with CSS BHOP

[LODY]

As far as I'm aware there is no way of doing something like this in CSS.

You can't add new VGUI elements like this.

[c-unit]

No, but you can add a lua uhh i forget what it's called, but it allows ou to use lua with CSS

[LODY]

[QUOTE=c-unit;21440418]No, but you can add a lua uhh i forget what it's called, but it allows ou to use lua with CSS[/QUOTE]

LSS is useful but surely it can't draw on the hud?

[|King Flawless|]

You cant use LSS for drawing anything on screen and the coder says he could but it would trigger vac

[c-unit]

Wow, you would think that VAC wouldn't be so sensative, Drawing a HUD triggering VAC ban?

[|King Flawless|]

Why would they support it when its used for exploiting the game? Other players have no need to draw to screen if they did it would be a feature in css

[Ho7s0]

*Boop* lol..

I'm currently making one too but in 2013.
This is what I have for now. It works great but the Number for on for ages (123.456789123)
Can someone help?

function GM:HUDPaint()
	self.BaseClass:HUDPaint()
	local ply = LocalPlayer()
	local VEL = LocalPlayer():GetVelocity():Length()

	surface.CreateFont( "MyFont", {
	font 		= "Arial",
	size 		= 30,
	weight 		= 500,
	blursize 	= 0,
	scanlines 	= 0,
	antialias 	= true,
	underline 	= false,
	italic 		= false,
	strikeout 	= false,
	symbol 		= false,
	rotary 		= false,
	shadow 		= false,
	additive 	= false,
	outline 	= false
})
	surface.SetTextColor( 255, 255, 255, 255)
	surface.SetTextPos( 20, 20 )
	surface.SetFont( "MyFont" )
	surface.DrawText( VEL )
end

[mitterdoo]

woow what a terrible bump..

this thread is more than 3 years old, and you couldn't simply just start a new thread instead of searching the bottom of the forums for this?

[Ho7s0]

[QUOTE=mitterdoo;41850925]woow what a terrible bump..

this thread is more than 3 years old, and you couldn't simply just start a new thread instead of searching the bottom of the forums for this?[/QUOTE]

This isn't a bump, this is an update because the old LUA strings don't work anymore.

[mitterdoo]

[QUOTE=Ho7s0;41850968]This isn't a bump, this is an update because the old LUA strings don't work anymore.[/QUOTE]

still, it's very obvious you shouldn't revive a 3-year old thread, especially in facepunch. it's bannable.

if your problem is the bar showing floats instead of integers, use [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/math/Round]math.Round()[/url]

[McDunkinY]

Create fonts outside of the paint hook, else it will cause some font problems, like all the fonts going black.

[Ho7s0]

[QUOTE=mitterdoo;41851012]still, it's very obvious you shouldn't revive a 3-year old thread, especially in facepunch. it's bannable.

if your problem is the bar showing floats instead of integers, use [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/math/Round]math.Round()[/url][/QUOTE]

Yes, sorry about this.
Also, where exactly will I place the math.Round()?

[QUOTE]Create fonts outside of the paint hook, else it will cause some font problems, like all the fonts going black.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for telling, changed it just now! :)

[mitterdoo]

[QUOTE=Ho7s0;41859776]
Also, where exactly will I place the math.Round()?[/QUOTE]
[lua]
local VEL = math.Round(LocalPlayer():GetVelocity():Length())
[/lua]