Best hook to drawing SimpleText with a player object

[trippymodzhq]

Hello, I am "VERY" new to lua coding and I am not familiar with any hooks for drawing a SimpleText function with a player object. My code is below:

function spawnStuff( ply )
	draw.SimpleText( "Hello "..ply:Nick().."! Welcome to my server!", "Default", 1, 1, Color( 50, 50, 50 ) )
end
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "SpawnStuff", spawnStuff )

Note that I tried HUDPaint and it doesn't pass the player object into the function. What would be a good hook for doing so?

[A Fghtr Pilot]

[QUOTE=trippymodzhq;47840401]Hello, I am "VERY" new to lua coding and I am not familiar with any hooks for drawing a SimpleText function with a player object. My code is below:

function spawnStuff( ply )
	draw.SimpleText( "Hello "..ply:Nick().."! Welcome to my server!", "Default", 1, 1, Color( 50, 50, 50 ) )
end
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "SpawnStuff", spawnStuff )

Note that I tried HUDPaint and it doesn't pass the player object into the function. What would be a good hook for doing so?[/QUOTE]

HUDPaint will work perfectly. Don't use ply though, as it isn't an argument for HUDPaint. Use LocalPlayer() instead of ply.

[trippymodzhq]

[QUOTE=A Fghtr Pilot;47840454]HUDPaint will work perfectly. Don't use ply though, as it isn't an argument for HUDPaint. Use LocalPlayer() instead of ply.[/QUOTE]

So just to be clear, would it look like this?

function spawnStuff()
	draw.SimpleText( "Hello "..LocalPlayer().."! Welcome to my server!", "Default", 1, 1, Color( 50, 50, 50 ) )
end
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "SpawnStuff", spawnStuff )

[Tomelyr]

ply is mostly used to refer to the Player Object.
Clientside, you can use LocalPlayer() as the client Player Object.
So out of ply:Nick() would be LocalPlayer():Nick()

[trippymodzhq]

Its working now! Thanks for the help guys :smile: