Making an Entity get the info of a weapon?

[pvtpuffball]

How would I make this entity get the weapon data of lets say the ak47,
and then print the data (like primary damage) in 3d2d?

This is what I have written up so far xD

[lua]include("shared.lua")

surface.CreateFont( "Gun1", {
font = "Bebas Neue",
size = 150,
weight = 500,
blursize = 0,
scanlines = 0,
antialias = true
} )

surface.CreateFont( "Gun2", {
font = "Bebas Neue",
size = 24,
weight = 500,
blursize = 0,
scanlines = 0,
antialias = true
} )

local function DrawTheNiggerText()
local ply = LocalPlayer()
if !ply or !ply:IsValid() then return end
local tr = ply:GetEyeTrace()
local ang = ply:EyeAngles()
if tr.Hit and tr.Entity:IsValid() and tr.Entity:GetClass() == "svt_40" then

cam.Start3D2D( tr.Entity:GetPos(), Angle( 0, ang.y - 90, 90 ), 0.1 )
draw.RoundedBox( 0, -120, - 300, 550, 145, Color( 42, 42, 42, 100 ) )
draw.SimpleText( "GUN INFO HERE", "Gun1", 155, - 225, Color(255, 255, 255, 255), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER )
cam.End3D2D()
end
end
hook.Add("PostDrawOpaqueRenderables", "svt_40", DrawTheNiggerText)[/lua]

[boxama]

Gun = ply:GetActiveWeapon()
CurrentClip = Gun:Clip1()
Name = Gun.PrintName

You can follow the example of the PrintName to get any detail of the SWEP.
To return a table of the player's weapons do ply():GetWeapons()

[pvtpuffball]

I dont quite understand what you're saying there, could you post an example?

[arcaneex]

So he helps you and you rate him dumb because you don't understand close to basic lua?

[pvtpuffball]

No i meant to rate him late because my friend told me how to fix it, i miss clicked
My friends idea didn't work anyways rofl.
His post isn't dumb i just didn't know how to change it haha.

Anyways don't flame, instead you could help?

[arcaneex]

In that case, basically you first get the weapon itself by defining wep as the current weapon that the player has in his hands:

[lua]
local wep = ply:GetActiveWeapon()
[/lua]

Then you can get all sorts of infromation.
For example get the name of the weapon:

[lua]
local wep = ply:GetActiveWeapon()

print(wep.PrintName)

[/lua]

That's about it.

[pvtpuffball]

I want it to print the data of a specific weapon not in the players hand.
Such as lets say an AK47.

Then I want to be able to put that in draw.SimpleText() so when I look at the entity
it will draw the ak47's information above it. Such as ammo/name/damage yadda yadda.

Thats what I was trying to say xD

[boxama]

Use ply:GetWeapons() to return a table of all the players weapons, then separate them out.
[lua]
for k, v in pairs( ply:GetWeapons() ) do
if v:GetClass() == "weapon_ak47" then
// draw text
end
end
[/lua]

[pvtpuffball]

Nonono Lets say he doesnt even own a ak47....
But when he looks at the entity it shows the ak47 stats.

[my_hat_stinks]

I think he's looking for something like [url="http://coderhire.com/scripts/view/603"]this[/url]

You'll need to get a trace from the player. Something like this would do
[lua]local tr = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
if IsValid( tr.Entity ) and tr.Entity:IsWeapon() then
--Do stuff here, tr.Entity is the weapon
end[/lua]

So, basically what you already have, just change the class check to an ent:IsWeapon() check

[pvtpuffball]

No I want the entity to print the data of a AK47 without having to be an AK47

[boxama]

Oh my god I finally understand.
[lua]wep = weapons.Get( "weapon_ak47" )[/lua]
Then you can do what I've said above.
[url]http://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index01d1.html[/url]

[BFG9000]

Ok so what you're trying to do is a gunlab-type-thing that displays the stats of its manufactured weapon?

[pvtpuffball]

OMG Internet1001, thank you!
BAZINGA YOU'RE THE WINNER >:D