NPC's aren't spawning on map

[BoneZed]

I'm trying to make NPC's spawn only on a certain map in my gamemode. Here's what I have:

function SpawnShopsOnMap()
		if game.GetMap() == "mememap1" then
			
			function SpawnEntities()
				if SERVER then
				local npc = ents.Create("ent_scrapmerchant")
				npc:SetPos(Vector(-165.836380,1001.145874,64))
				npc:SetAngles(Angle(0,0,0))
				npc:Spawn()
			end
		end
		hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "SpawnEntities", SpawnEntities)
	
		else return false
	end
end

It's placed into init.lua. The "SpawnEntities" function works if it's not in the "SpawnShopsOnMap". Any help is appreciated.

[MysteryPancake]

Have you actually RUN the SpawnShopsOnMap function?

[jacobcooper18]

[QUOTE=MPan1;50966436]Have you actually RUN the SpawnShopsOnMap function?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, he hasn't hooked SpawnShopsOnMap, and it isn't a valid function on the Gmod Lua Wiki, so maybes he needs to localise it aswell, just to be safe with any conflictions.

[MysteryPancake]

[QUOTE=jacobcooper18;50966442]it isn't a valid function on the Gmod Lua Wiki[/QUOTE]
Just because it's not on the wiki doesn't mean it's not a valid function... if it didn't work or wasn't a function it wouldn't be a valid function
I know what you mean though :p

[jacobcooper18]

And you could make a timer, like:

 function Initialize()
hook.Call( "SpawnShopsOnMap" ) 
end

hook.Add( "Initialize", "Initialize", Initialize )

local function SpawnShopsOnMap()
		if game.GetMap() == "mememap1" then
			
			function SpawnEntities()
				if SERVER then
				local npc = ents.Create("ent_scrapmerchant")
				npc:SetPos(Vector(-165.836380,1001.145874,64))
				npc:SetAngles(Angle(0,0,0))
				npc:Spawn()
			end
		end
		hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "SpawnEntities", SpawnEntities)
	
		else return false
	end
end
hook.Add( "SpawnShopsOnMap", "Spawn Shops", SpawnShopsOnMap ) 

[editline]29th August 2016[/editline]

[QUOTE=MPan1;50966455]Just because it's not on the wiki doesn't mean it's not a valid function... if it didn't work or wasn't a function it wouldn't be a valid function
I know what you mean though :p[/QUOTE]

Yeah :P

[editline]29th August 2016[/editline]

Would this work by any chance? Untested.

[BoneZed]

[QUOTE=jacobcooper18;50966467]And you could make a timer, like:

 function Initialize()
hook.Call( "SpawnShopsOnMap" ) 
end

hook.Add( "Initialize", "Initialize", Initialize )

local function SpawnShopsOnMap()
		if game.GetMap() == "mememap1" then
			
			function SpawnEntities()
				if SERVER then
				local npc = ents.Create("ent_scrapmerchant")
				npc:SetPos(Vector(-165.836380,1001.145874,64))
				npc:SetAngles(Angle(0,0,0))
				npc:Spawn()
			end
		end
		hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "SpawnEntities", SpawnEntities)
	
		else return false
	end
end
hook.Add( "SpawnShopsOnMap", "Spawn Shops", SpawnShopsOnMap ) 

[editline]29th August 2016[/editline]

Yeah :P

[editline]29th August 2016[/editline]

Would this work by any chance? Untested.[/QUOTE]

Yep, worked perfectly. Thanks for the help :smile: