Draw text on use

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

Hi all,
at the moment i am quite new at gmod lua and i am making a suit for my server, i have got the suit working well and when i click e on it, it will set my health and armor to 1000, this it just for testing, it will be changed later but i just need to know how i can show some text at the top of my screen for the time that i have the suit and i want it to disapear when i die/drop the suit

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/397479/ce73d09b-c281-48cb-9871-c54392c8e465/image.png

This is my init.lua

AddCSLuaFile("cl_init.lua")
AddCSLuaFile("shared.lua")

include("shared.lua")

function ENT:Initialize()
self:SetModel("models/items/item_item_crate.mdl")
self:PhysicsInit(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
self:SetMoveType(MOVETYPE_VPHYSICS)
self:SetSolid(SOLID_VPHYSICS)

local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()
if phys:IsValid() then
phys:Wake()
end

end

function ENT:Use(act,call)
act:SetHealth(1000)
act:SetArmor(1000)
self:Remove()
end 
shared.lua

ENT.Type = "anim"
ENT.Base = "base_gmodentity"

ENT.PrintName = "Tier 1 Suit"

ENT.Spawnable = true
and cl_init.lua

include("shared.lua")
surface.CreateFont( "font", {
font = "Arial", -- Use the font-name which is shown to you by your operating system Font Viewer, not the file name
extended = false,
size = 50,
weight = 500,
blursize = 0,
scanlines = 0,
antialias = true,
underline = false,
italic = false,
strikeout = false,
symbol = false,
rotary = false,
shadow = false,
additive = false,
outline = false,
} )
function ENT:Draw()
self:DrawModel()
local pos = self:GetPos()
local ang = self:GetAngles()
ang.y = LocalPlayer():EyeAngles().y - 90
cam.Start3D2D(Vector(pos.x,pos.y,pos.z+40),Angle(0,ang.y,90),0.3)
draw.RoundedBox(0,-60,0,120,50,Color(0,0,0,190))
draw.SimpleText("Tier 1","font",1,1,Color(255,255,255,255),TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER,TEXT_ALIGN_TOP)
cam.End3D2D()

end

[zippy36jr]

You could use a NWBool and a value that you can check so you can show or hide the hud.

Entity/SetNWBool

-- code for use function
ply:SetNWBool("hasSuit", true)

-- code for hud
if ply:GetNWBool("hasSuit") then Hud code end

-- on player death
ply:SetNWBool("hasSuit", false)

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

thanks zippy, that was helpful to set the var but i dont know how to draw the hud inside of an entity, i have tried adding this to my cl_init.lua

surface.CreateFont( "font", {
font = "Arial", -- Use the font-name which is shown to you by your operating system Font Viewer, not the file name
extended = false,
size = 50,
weight = 500,
blursize = 0,
scanlines = 0,
antialias = true,
underline = false,
italic = false,
strikeout = false,
symbol = false,
rotary = false,
shadow = false,
additive = false,
outline = false,
} )
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "Text", function()
draw.SimpleText("Tier 1",font,ScrW()/w,ScrH()/2,Color(0,0,0),TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT,TEXT_ALIGN_TOP)
end )

but i just cant seem to get it to draw it, the only way i have been able to get it to do that is by removing everything that mentions 'ENT' and then doing lua_openscript_cl entities/suit/cl_init.lua

[zippy36jr]

The hud would go in a different file.

The file structure should look something like this.
addon>
lua>
autorun>
cl_hud.lua
entities>
myent>
init.lua
cl_init.lua
shared.lua
And then at the hud file would look like this
AddCSLuaFile()

surface.CreateFont( "font", {
font = "Arial", -- Use the font-name which is shown to you by your operating system Font Viewer, not the file name
extended = false,
size = 50,
weight = 500,
blursize = 0,
scanlines = 0,
antialias = true,
underline = false,
italic = false,
strikeout = false,
symbol = false,
rotary = false,
shadow = false,
additive = false,
outline = false,
} )
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "Text", function()
-- check if the bool is true or false here then draw the text
draw.SimpleText("Tier 1",font,ScrW()/w,ScrH()/2,Color(0,0,0),TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT,TEXT_ALIGN_TOP)
end )

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

hey, i was running my addon in the garrysmod/garrysmod/lua/entities folder and now i have moved it to it own folder and it isnt showing up in the q menu

here is the folder structure of mine

addons

suits

lua

entities

tier1

cl_init.lua

shared.lua

init.lua

autorun

cl_hud.lua

all the code is the same as in the first post, please help

[zippy36jr]

Weird it seems to be working for me are you sure your file structure looks like this?

https://i.imgur.com/NNU4bfR.png

also in shared.lua you can add this and it will make its own thing in the entities tab.
ENT.Category = "Suits"

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

nvm i had to restart my game and it is working now but i cant seem to modify the font size

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

I have tried calling it hud and still got the error, I can upload my files if you would like

[Spar]

autorun/client/cl_hud.lua: You don't need to AddCSLuaFile() in autorun, also change in text Default to "Default", because function require string for font
entities/tier1/cl_init.lua: Change "font" to "Tier1Font"

[xXTheRedGamerXx]

Found the issue a few days ago but forgot to post it, i forgot to put quotes around my font name