Abbreviations in a hud?

[VoltageBoss]

I was wondering how I would go about creating abbreviations in a hud. What I would personally like to do is in the darkrp hud I have created would be to make it so that when someone reaches $100,000 it would say instead 100k and then at $1,000,000 it would instead say 1m. Is that a possibility to do that? And if so, does anyone know a tutorial on how to do that or anyone here in general know?

[jwgamesuk]

I'm sure I've seen a function that does this, I can't remember if it was a gmod function or something in a gamemode though.
If I remember I'll let you know!

[VoltageBoss]

Yeah I could have sworn I have seen something like that before. I am just unsure of how I would do it.

[llamalords]

hook.Add("HUDPaint","examplehookname", function()

local money = (LocalPlayer():getDarkRPVar("money"));
local moneytext = "";

if (money >= 10000) then
moneytext = string.format("Money: %dK", money * .001);
else
moneytext = string.format("Money: %d", money);
end

surface.SetDrawColor(Color(255,255,255,255));
surface.SetTextPos(ScrW()/2, ScrH()/2);
surface.DrawText(moneytext);
end)

[jwgamesuk]

Not exactly how I've seen it done (still can't remember where i saw it), but that should work

[VoltageBoss]

I just tried that out and it works! Thank you very much!

[_Fancy_]

I don't really understand why would you do this because it'd confuse quite a few people and in general just isn't a convenient way to judge an amount outside of general transactions...

Anyways, here's a flexible function for what you need:
function amountToMonetaryUnit(amount)
    local units = {
        {symbol = "k", multiplier = 0.001},
        {symbol = "m", multiplier = 0.000001},
        {symbol = "b", multiplier = 0.000000001},
        {symbol = "t", multiplier = 0.000000000001}
    }
    local conv = amount
    for _, unit in pairs(units) do
        local calc = amount * unit.multiplier
        if calc >= 1 then conv = calc .. unit.symbol continue end
        break
    end
    return conv
end

this is what you'd be getting with this...
132 = 132
1002 = 1.002k
5,423,142 = 5.423142m
2,240,000 = 5.24m
1,200,000,000 = 1.2b
etc...

[VoltageBoss]

Would this be outside of the hud function? Like in other words

function amountToMonetaryUnit(amount)local units = {
{symbol = "k", multiplier = 0.001},
{symbol = "m", multiplier = 0.000001},
{symbol = "b", multiplier = 0.000000001},
{symbol = "t", multiplier = 0.000000000001}
}
local conv = amount
for _, unit inpairs(units) dolocal calc = amount * unit.multiplier
if calc >= 1then conv = calc .. unit.symbol continue endbreakendreturn conv
end

local function CreateHUD()

Kinda like that? Sorry Im having such huge issues with the code thing for some reason.

[_Fancy_]

like this
function amountToMonetaryUnit(amount)
    local units = {
        {symbol = "k", multiplier = 0.001},
        {symbol = "m", multiplier = 0.000001},
        {symbol = "b", multiplier = 0.000000001},
        {symbol = "t", multiplier = 0.000000000001}
    }
    local conv = amount
    for _, unit in pairs(units) do
        local calc = amount * unit.multiplier
        if calc >= 1 then conv = calc .. unit.symbol continue end
        break
    end
    return conv
end

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "draw_money", function()
    draw.SimpleText(amountToMonetaryUnit(1000, "ChatFont", 100, 100, Color(230, 230, 230))
end)

[VoltageBoss]

Its currently giving me this error [ERROR] addons/scg_hud/lua/autorun/scg_hud.lua:37: 'in' expected near 'inpairs'
  1. unknown - addons/scg_hud/lua/autorun/scg_hud.lua:0

[hoobsug]

that error literally says that it should be in pairs insted of ur inpairs

[MrKuBu]

You can use:
hook.Add("HUDPaint","hookname", function()

local moneyvaule = (LocalPlayer():getDarkRPVar("money"));
local moneyhud = "";

if (moneyvaule >= 1000000) then
moneyhud = string.format("You money: %dM", moneyvaule * .000001);
elseif (moneyvaule >= 100000) then
moneyhud = string.format("You money: %dK", moneyvaule * .001);
else
moneyhud = string.format("You money: %d", moneyvaule);
end

surface.SetDrawColor(Color(255,255,255,255));
surface.SetTextPos(0, 0);
surface.DrawText(moneyhud);
end)