NextBot GetPlayerColor()

[Lolle]

Is there anyway to add a shared GetPlayerColor() function to NextBots, so i can color them over mat.Proxy("PlayerColor") ? Basically i want a NextBot to have the same Color for his clothing on all clients.
I'm stuck at this problem for a few hours now. Since NWVars seem not to work with NextBots.

Thanks in advance

-Lolle

[Gedo789]

(ATTENTION! This is a old way to change the color of NextBot's clothings and things.)

[I]This will not be possible without heavy modifications of the nextbot.[/I] (Don't believe this.)
And the major problem is: Are you using a player model on the nextbot (Not NPC model)?

If yes, you would have to edit to somethings like this:

function DoNextBotColor(ent,colors_vector)
mat.Proxy("PlayerColor") -- Basically, your code to change color on the clientside
end
net.Receive("nextbotcolor",function() DoNextBotColor(net.ReadEntity(),net.ReadVector()) end)

function ENT:GetNextBotColor()
return self.NextBotColor
end

function ENT:SetNextBotColor(colors_vector)
self.NextBotColor=colors_vector
net.Start("nextbotcolor")
net.WriteEntity(self)
net.WriteVector(colors_vector)
net.Broadcast()
end

If no, well, you will have to change the color using textures functions.
(Since the recents updates from Garry's mod, you are now able to change materials of models,
I will let someone else explain this. I don't know very much about materials changes functions...)

[Rubat]

Pretty sure you can use this as a clientside hook:
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/OnEntityCreated[/url]

to give your nextbot a lua function called GetPlayerColor.

That's all you have to do. The problem why you can't do it from NEXTBOT:* hooks is because they are serverside only.

[Lolle]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;48810570]Pretty sure you can use this as a clientside hook:
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/OnEntityCreated[/url]

to give your nextbot a lua function called GetPlayerColor.

That's all you have to do. The problem why you can't do it from NEXTBOT:* hooks is because they are serverside only.[/QUOTE]

That's exactly what i tried. But I want to use random colors or a random color from a preset table. And i want the color from each nextbot to match on all clients. I tried to call GM:OnEntityCreated server side and send all the clients the same color for the nextbot created, but like you said nextbots a different on client and server so that didn't work.

EDIT:
And thank you Gedo for your approach I will give it a shot once I am home.

[Lolle]

I think I'm gonna post here again just for future reference.
So here is my workaround to give nextbots that use playermodels a GetPlayerColor() function that is synced on all clients!
Basically I use the ENTITY:SetColor() function to network the color between client and server. That way i can set the ent color once in my NEXTBOT:Initialize() and convert it to a playercolor vector client side once its created.

Nextbot Code:
[LUA]
function ENT:Initialize()
self:SetColor(Color(123,254,50))
end
[/LUA]

Clientside hooks:
[LUA]function addPlayerColorOnCreate( ent )
if ent:GetClass() == "npc_walker" then --"npc_walker" is my nextbot class name
ent.WalkerColor = Vector(ent:GetColor().r / 255, ent:GetColor().g / 255, ent:GetColor().b / 255) --Convert color table to a Vector
function ent:GetPlayerColor() return self.WalkerColor end --return the color vector
ent:SetColor(Color(255, 255, 255, 255)) --set the color back to the default/no color.
end
end

hook.Add("OnEntityCreated", "customnextbotcolors", addplayerColorOnCreate)

function resetNextbotColor( ent, shouldtransmit )
if shouldtransmit and ent:GetClass() == "npc_walker" then
ent:SetColor(Color(255,255,255,255)) --we need to reset the color everytime the entity gets transmitted to the client if you don't want them to have coloured heads
end
end

hook.Add("NotifyShouldTransmit", "resetcustomcolors", resetNextbotColor)[/LUA]

[Rubat]

Do not EVER use GM:* hooks outside of gamemodes, use the hook.Add function.

[editline]3rd October 2015[/editline]

Also I'd suggest you use NWVector for this, not SetColor ( for models that do not support coloring, etc )

[Lolle]

Yeah sorry thats my fail I use the bots in a gamemode i will change it asap.

And as far as I can tell SetNWVector isn't working.