Lua Help

[MrSirLordSleepy]

Hi there, I'm currently in the process of making a simple mining system where you hit the rock and it will remove itself and drop an ore.

The problem i'm having is that I want the rock to replace itself after 30 seconds but I can't manage to do this without re-spawning all rocks in the game.

This is the code I have so far.

function ENT:RespawningRock()
local spawnPos = self:GetPos()
self:Remove()
local ore = ents.Create( table.Random( Ores ) )
ore:SetPos(spawnPos)
ore:Spawn()
timer.Create( "UniqueName3", Sleepy_RockRegenTime, 1, SpawnRocks )
end

function SpawnRocks()

local StoredRockData = {}
if file.Exists( "sleepy_mining/" .. game.GetMap() .. ".txt" ,"DATA") then
StoredRockData = util.JSONToTable(file.Read( "sleepy_mining/" .. game.GetMap() .. ".txt" ))
end

for i, v in pairs(  ents.FindByClass( "sleepy_rock" ) ) do
      if( IsValid( v ) ) then
        v:Remove()
      end
    end

for k,v in pairs(StoredRockData) do
local SleepyRock = ents.Create("sleepy_rock")
SleepyRock:SetPos(v.Pos)
SleepyRock:SetAngles(v.Angle)
SleepyRock:Spawn()

end

end
concommand.Add("spawnrocks", function(ply,cmd,args) SpawnRocks() end)

Obviously this is going to remove all rocks as I've set it to as a workaround but does anybody have a solution to only re-spawn the missing rock?

Thank you for your help.

[Doctor Jew]

The issue I can maybe see occurring is that you are trying to run code after calling self:Remove() which may prevent execution.

You could try using a GM:EntityRemoved() hook to check when a "sleepy_rock" is about to be removed, get it's position and then spawn a new one there after a timer.

hook.Add("EntityRemoved", "SleepyEntityRemoved", function(ent)
if ent:GetClass() != "sleepy_rock" then return end

local pos = ent:GetPos()
local ang = ent:GetAngles()
timer.Simple(Sleepy_RockRegenTime, function()
local rock = ents.Create("sleepy_rock")
rock:SetPos(pos)
rock:SetAngles(ang)
rock:Spawn()
end
end)

This is untested but something like that should help you get towards the desired result.

[SweptThrone]

This would be a hacky as fuck way of doing shit, but in the rock's OnRemove function, set a variable on the ore entity containing the rock's position vector. Then, in the ore's Use function, spawn a rock at the stored vector after a timer or whatever.

[MrSirLordSleepy]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks alot for your help
Got it, apologies.