Efficient Spawn Menu / Client Server Communication

[Rekson]

I'm trying to find information to load my spawn menu from a file and - also to help with removing the labor of setting up each spawn icon and doing a bit of math and letting it auto lay the icons out... I'm not proficient enough yet to know the term I want to search for on the wiki..

I'm also lost as to how I'd pass information from client to server.. I've made money for buying props but how do I pull the price and prop model from my Dpanel and send that to the server to spawn the prop and subtract the money.

[CL34R / Luke]

When i'm dealing with laying out something that i dont want to make indevidual panels for each value i store each value in a table with it's own table with the values im interested in for example,

exampletable.value1 = {value = "value you want",description = "item description"}

then you could just loop through the table and get your value like this:

for k, v in pairs(exampletable) do
print(v.value)
end

[Rekson]

Thank you! I've been playing around with net library and it just seems spammy to constantly send and update. I've not set it on a timer but on a hook when the data would be updated but that could be multiple times every second.. on a large scale would this get laggy? Should I worry about limiting these request?

[charozoid]

It really depends on the size of your message, sending a 8 bit int is not going to have the same load on the server as sending complicated tables. What kind of data do you intend to update a lotÉ

[Rekson]

Is it possible to send one net message and parse it out? I've done such in other programs. I do not need to send a ton of data front client to server just prop model, cost, and health to the server to spawn.

[charozoid]

Instead of networking the model, cost, etc. Just keep a global table of items and only network the items ids from client to server.