Faulty physics on test entity only when spawned using ents.Create

[Bubbus]

Hi all, I'm having trouble spawning an entity I recently made. For my addon I need to spawn the entity using a tool. However, when I spawn it via ents.Create I can walk straight through it and I can't pick it up with the physgun or gravity gun, and bullets pass through it too. It does however respond to gravgun punting and collisions with other entities.

I've created a smaller test-entity which only has the necessary parts to re-create the problem (acf_spawntest.lua):

AddCSLuaFile()


DEFINE_BASECLASS( "base_wire_entity" )
ENT.Type            = "anim"
ENT.Base            = "base_wire_entity"




if SERVER then


    function MakeACF_SpawnTester(Owner, Pos, Angle, Id)
    
        local ent = ents.Create("acf_spawntest")
        if not ent:IsValid() then return false end
        ent:SetAngles(Angle)
        ent:SetPos(Pos)
        
        ent:Spawn()
        ent:SetPlayer(Owner)
        ent:SetOwner(Owner)
        ent.Owner = Owner
        
        ent:SetModelEasy("models/props_c17/light_decklight01_off.mdl")
        
        print("spawned")
        
        return ent
        
    end




    function ENT:SetModelEasy(mdl)


        self:SetModel( mdl )    
        self.Model = mdl
        
        self:PhysicsInit( SOLID_VPHYSICS )          
        self:SetMoveType( MOVETYPE_VPHYSICS )         
        self:SetSolid( SOLID_VPHYSICS )
        
        local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()      
        if (phys:IsValid()) then 
            phys:SetMass(1000)
        end     
        
    end


end

You can use the following line in the console to invoke the 'MakeACF_SpawnTester' function:

lua_run local ply = player.GetAll()[1] MakeACF_SpawnTester(ply, ply:GetPos() + Vector(0,0,20), Angle(0,0,0))

I need to be able to spawn the entity without problems via MakeACF_SpawnTester because it's registered as a duplicator factory for the full entity.

Here's a video displaying the symptoms:

[vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/902553/ShareX/2015/09/2015-09-16_00-03-38.mp4[/vid]

What's going wrong? Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone help?! Much thanks up front!

[Rubat]

Pretty sure it's caused by SetOwner, which disables player collisions with the entity, among other things.

[Bubbus]

Completely correct, that sorted it out! As you can imagine, I was trying to set the entity's owner for prop protection systems and I thought that'd do it. What's the right way to do that? Do I even need to worry about that?

[Rubat]

[QUOTE=Splambob;48690719]Completely correct, that sorted it out! As you can imagine, I was trying to set the entity's owner for prop protection systems and I thought that'd do it. What's the right way to do that? Do I even need to worry about that?[/QUOTE]

The method is entirely dependent on the prop protection system you are using.

[Bubbus]

Alright, well I'll make an attempt using CPPI and if that isn't supported on the server then I guess it's up them. Thanks for all your help, that one had my mind blown for far too long.