Spawning an enemy entity at a specific time

[Miltec]

Hello everybody!

I am making a gmod server and I want specific enemies to be spawned at a specific time during the day (eg. 12:30PM), I'm still a noob with lua and the script works partially.

local function checkTime()
MsgC( Color( 128, 128, 0 ), "CheckedTime" )
if (os.date("%H") == "12") and tonumber(os.date("%M")) >= 20 and tonumber(os.date("%M")) <= 59 then-- Perform action
        timer.Stop("830Timer")
        timer.Create("RestartTimer", 5, 1, function() timer.Start("830Timer") end)
MsgC( Color( 128, 128, 0 ), "Spawned boss!" )
if SERVER then
local _ent = ents.Create("npc_vj_dmvj_giant_worm")
_ent:SetPos(Vector(4837.775879,-3985.372070,-26.258362))
_ent:Spawn()
end
end
end

hook.Add( "Initialize", "Start Timer", function() timer.Create( "830Timer", 60, 0, checkTime ) end)

Both of the messages print in the console but the entity doesn't get created, I don't even get an error in the console.

If anyone can help me set this up correctly I'd be grateful!

[Rainbow_Cow]

Is the code being run serverside?

[Miltec]

The lua file is located inside an autorun folder (lua/autorun/boss_spawn.lua) <-- like that in the file explorer. How do I make it run serverside?

[Rainbow_Cow]

put it in lua/autorun/server

[Miltec]

Thanks putting it into the server folder fixed it! Yeah I could change the code to fit yours, still new to the timers and all that stuff ^^

[Rainbow_Cow]

No problem!