Putting draw.SimpleText outside of hook.

[6F5]

Ive been playing with draw.SimpleText for some time now, ive been wanting it to be visible for few seconds and then disappear, i got it to work with the HUDPaint hook, but it does not fit my needs, i currently have
function DrawRandomText(text,font,color)

local show = 1
local Scrh = math.random(-30,30)
local Scrw = math.random(-30,30)

hook.Add("HUDPaint","CenterScreenText",function()
if show == 1 then
draw.SimpleText(text, font, ScrW() / 2 + Scrw, ScrH() / 2 + Scrh, color,TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER,TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER )
end
timer.Simple(0.5,function()show=0 end)
end)
end   
is the a more effective way of doing this so i could see multiple draw.simpletext?

[Spar]

timer in HUDPaint or in any other render/think function is a sin.
At least place this timer outside the hook

[6F5]

Thanks

[Srlion]

local randomTexts = {}
local hookRemoved = true
function DrawRandomText(text, font, size, time)
    if !time then time = 2 end
    local i = table.insert(randomTexts, {text = text, font = font, size = size})

    if hookRemoved then
        hook.Add(“HUDPaint”, “DrawRandomTexts”, function()
            for k, v in  ipairs(randomTexts) do
                local text, font, size = v.text, v.font, v.size
                — draw here
            end
        end)
        hookRemoved = false
    end

    timer.Simple(time, function()
        randomTexts[i] = nil
        if #randomTexts == 0 then
            hook.Remove(“HUDPaint”, “DrawRandomText”)
            hookRemoved = true
        end
    end)
end