Serverside entity visibility at client

[papi]

Dear All,
I am trying to create an entity that is server sided, yet it is only visible to one random client upon creation. I would like to have assistance with it since I am failing at this task.
Thank you very much in advance!

[kem008]

What kind of entity is this??? You know you can block the draw on serverside and clientside too.

[SFAriel]

[img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Entity/SetPreventTransmit]Entity:SetPreventTransmit[/url]

Server:
[lua]
local ent = ents.Create("sent_ball")
ent:Spawn()

local pls = player.GetAll()
local randPlayer = pls[math.random(#pls)]

for i, pl in pairs(pls) do
if pl ~= randPlayer then
ent:SetPreventTransmit(pl, true)
end
end
[/lua]

This completely stops networking to those players though, so if they bump into said entity, it will feel jittery.

[papi]

[QUOTE=SFArial;51728791][img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Entity/SetPreventTransmit]Entity:SetPreventTransmit[/url]

Server:
[lua]
local ent = ents.Create("sent_ball")
ent:Spawn()

local pls = player.GetAll()
local randPlayer = pls[math.random(#pls)]

for i, pl in pairs(pls) do
if pl ~= randPlayer then
ent:SetPreventTransmit(pl, true)
end
end
[/lua]

This completely stops networking to those players though, so if they bump into said entity, it will feel jittery.[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much for your assistance, I will try your solution. My issue was that I had no clue how to handle nodraw on client side. Thankfully the entity is passable, so no bumping or jittering will happen. Thank you again!

[editline]26th January 2017[/editline]

[QUOTE=kem008;51725707]What kind of entity is this??? You know you can block the draw on serverside and clientside too.[/QUOTE]

I tried to do:

if CLIENT then self:SetNoDraw(true) end

in shared.lua but to no avail.

[papi]

The ent:SetPreventTransmit(pl, true) code did not work sadly. I put it after spawning the entity into init.lua.

[SFAriel]

In that case try this:

Put this in a server only lua file outside a function:
[lua]util.AddNetworkString("ent.hide")[/lua]

Spawn entity like this:
[lua]local ent = ents.Create("sent_ball")
ent:Spawn()

local pls = player.GetAll()
local randPlayer = pls[math.random(#pls)]

net.Start("ent.hide")
net.WriteEntity(ent)
net.SendOmit(randPlayer)[/lua]

And put this in a client only lua file:
[lua]net.Receive("ent.hide", function()
local ent = net.ReadEntity()
ent:SetNoDraw(true)
end)[/lua]

[Brassx]

If this is a scripted ent (made via ENT in an entities folder:) you can do something like this.

--Serverside, set what player can see this entitiy via:
ent:SetNWEntity("myPlayer", ply); 

--Use this only when the server needs to set what player can see this entity. When the entity is created.
--be sure to also set ent:DrawShadow(false); to disable the shadow too.

then in shared.lua or cl_init.lua of the entity.

function ENT:Draw()
	if (self:GetNWEntity("myPlayer") != LocalPlayer()) then
		return;
	end
	self:DrawModel();
end
function ENT:DrawTranslucent()
	if (self:GetNWEntity("myPlayer") != LocalPlayer()) then
		return;
	end
	self:DrawModel();
	
end

[c👌de_g🎷]

Yes

[papi]

[QUOTE=Brassx;51738038]If this is a scripted ent (made via ENT in an entities folder:) you can do something like this.

--Serverside, set what player can see this entitiy via:
ent:SetNWEntity("myPlayer", ply); 


--Use this only when the server needs to set what player can see this entity. When the entity is created.
--be sure to also set ent:DrawShadow(false); to disable the shadow too.

then in shared.lua or cl_init.lua of the entity.

function ENT:Draw()
    if (self:GetNWEntity("myPlayer") != LocalPlayer()) then
        return;
    end
    self:DrawModel();
end
function ENT:DrawTranslucent()
    if (self:GetNWEntity("myPlayer") != LocalPlayer()) then
        return;
    end
    self:DrawModel();
    
end

[/QUOTE]

I will try your solution today, thank you very much!