DrawWorldModel error

[Bazoogle]

I am trying to make a gun that makes you invisible when you click, so to hide the weapon, I am trying to use

self.Owner:DrawWorldModel()
and
self.Owner:DrawWorldModel(false)

It works, but it always gives me an error. The error always says:

attempt to call method 'DrawWorldModel' (a nil value)

What can I use to properly use the DrawWorldModel without errors?

[Bazoogle]

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[Rubat]

Do an IsValid check on the owner.

We could help better if you post more context as to where the code is called from.

[Acecool]

There's a bit more to do when setting someone to invisible.

In addition to PrePlayerDraw ( return true to hide the player; this is clientside so it can't be trusted as the only thing to hide the player ): [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/gm_functions_and_hooks/gm_preplayerdraw_making_players_invisible.lua.html[/url]

You'd need the following calls:

_p:SetRenderMode( RENDERMODE_NORMAL );

// Invisible
_p:SetColor( Color( 0, 0, 0, 0 ) );
_p:SetNoDraw( true );
_p:DrawWorldModel( false );

// Visible
_p:SetColor( Color( 255, 255, 255, 255 ) )
_p:SetNoDraw( false );
_p:DrawWorldModel( true );

[Bazoogle]

That's the thing, it works great single player, but when I bring it to multiplayer, anytime DrawWorldModel (true/false) is run, it says it is a nil value... It works, which is the weird thing, but it spams console. This is sort of a cloak, so I just set the material of the body to heatwave, but anytime I try to set the weapon material to heatwave, it does weird things.

[Acecool]

Those functions need to be ran serverside ( except for PrePlayerDraw ).

The reason it works in single-player / listen-server is because client and server are the same meaning the code merges and some can even be overwritten ( which is why it isn't a good idea to dev on a listen-server ) leaving you with unknown effects when run on a dedicated server.

Setting up a local SRCDS is EASY. On top of that, if your client crashes, you don't need the server part to re-load. If the server crashes, you don't need to reload the client. So much easier to debug that way.

Here's how to set up a local SRCDS ( not all of these are required, just like you don't need to mount all games; but do force-directory as mount.cfg doesn't like the names of the games when they're left to install in other directories ):

Server: [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/server_srcds_steamcmd/setting_up_a_server_with_steamcmd.lua.html[/url]

FastDL: [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/server_srcds_steamcmd/fastdl_setup_instructions.lua.html[/url]

Recursive Resource Loader: [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/server_srcds_steamcmd/setting_up_downloads_using_recursive_resource_system.lua.html[/url]

[Bazoogle]

I appreciate your response, but I know how to set up an SRCDS server. I do normally test on just the regular server, but I have no idea how to make the DrawWorldModel() to work without running errors... You said to run it server side, but how would I do that when I have

function SWEP:Holster()
self.Owner:DrawWorldModel( true )
end

everytime I holster it it says

 attempt to call method 'DrawWorldModel' (a nil value) 

[Acecool]

Check self.Owner; it may be invalid / unset..

[UnkN]

[QUOTE=Bazoogle;46597140]I appreciate your response, but I know how to set up an SRCDS server. I do normally test on just the regular server, but I have no idea how to make the DrawWorldModel() to work without running errors... You said to run it server side, but how would I do that when I have

function SWEP:Holster()
self.Owner:DrawWorldModel( true )
end

everytime I holster it it says

 attempt to call method 'DrawWorldModel' (a nil value) 

[/QUOTE]
Use render mode alpha and set player alpha to 0 or use special materials

if IsValid( self.Owner ) then
self.Owner:SetRender(RENDERMODE_ALPHA)
local oldcl = self.Owner:GetColor()
oldcl.a=0
self.Owner:SetColor(oldcl)
end

[Bazoogle]

WOO, I finally got a working version! Thankyou everyone for responding, and especially UnkN because you led me in the right direction! What I did was:

 	self.Owner:SetRenderMode( RENDERMODE_TRANSALPHA )
	self.Weapon:SetRenderMode( RENDERMODE_TRANSALPHA ) 

then I just used

 self.Weapon:SetColor(Color(255,255,255,255))
&
self.Weapon:SetColor(Color(255,255,255,0))