What am I doing wrong here? Trying to do a health check.

[1337Narb]

Trying to learn lua, experimenting with things of my own. Probably making some stupid mistake here, but whatever.

Basically when the script is run; it's meant to check if you're hurt or not. If your health isn't 100, then you are registered as hurt, and it prints this to the console.

Am I addressing the player's health wrong?

[lua]
print("Healthcheck script has been ran.")

if player.Health == 100 then
Msg("You are feeling perfectly fine.")
else
Msg("You are hurt.")
end
[/lua]

I always receive the message: "You are hurt!", even when the player isn't harmed at all.

[Deadman123]

I think this is because at line 3 you have [LUA]if player.health == 100 then[/LUA] when it should be [LUA]if (player:Health() == 100) then[/LUA] As health is a method, and with a . it would be a library if im correct

[1337Narb]

[QUOTE=Deadman123;33435042]I think this is because at line 3 you have [LUA]if player.health == 100 then[/LUA] when it should be [LUA]if (player:Health() == 100) then[/LUA] As health is a method, and with a . it would be a library if im correct[/QUOTE]

I have no idea on what a library is, or how to use one.

Also could you explain why the parenthesis are needed around player:Health?

---EDIT:

Tried running your version of the script, got this:

[lua\anonymous\healthtest.lua:3] attempt to call method 'Health' (a nil value)

[Deadman123]

Are you trying to do this at an interval? I can help if I know this

[1337Narb]

[QUOTE=Deadman123;33435459]Are you trying to do this at an interval? I can help if I know this[/QUOTE]

Dunno, just trying to make it so when you run the lua file it checks if your health is something, then prints it to console.

Also how would I get it so it prints to the point of you being able to see the message in the chat window?

[leiftiger]

Where do you define player? Is this the full code?

[1337Narb]

[QUOTE=leiftiger;33435624]Where do you define player? Is this the full code?[/QUOTE]

I didn't know I needed to :/

How would I go about doing this?
I'm new to lua, as I stated before.

[Deadman123]

You'd do it like this [LUA]function stuff(ply)
if (ply:Health() == 100) then
Msg("You Feel Good")
else
Msg("You Are Hurt
end
end[/LUA]

[1337Narb]

[QUOTE=Deadman123;33435641][QUOTE 1337Narb]Also how would I get it so it prints to the point of you being able to see the message in the chat window? [/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

I mean like the window in the bottom left corner of your screen.

[leiftiger]

Very simple lua_openscript_cl concept ([i]if you don't want it to run at intervals[/i]):
[lua]
MsgN("Check health script running")
local player = LocalPlayer()
if player:Health() == 100 then
chat.AddText("You are feeling perfectly fine.")
else
chat.AddText("You are hurt.")
end
[/lua]

[Deadman123]

@1337Narb :suicide:

[kragmars102]

[QUOTE=1337Narb;33435663][/QUOTE]

I mean like the window in the bottom left corner of your screen.[/QUOTE]

It's called a hud, [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Simple_HUD_Tut[/url]

[1337Narb]

[QUOTE=leiftiger;33435669]Very simple lua_openscript_cl concept ([i]if you don't want it to run at intervals[/i]):
[lua]
MsgN("Check health script running")
local player = LocalPlayer()
if player:Health() == 100 then
chat.AddText("You are feeling perfectly fine.")
else
chat.AddText("You are hurt.")
end
[/lua][/QUOTE]

Thank you so much <3

[Krizzu]

where did you get that function Health() ?
Where can I see them all?

[Drakehawke]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com[/url]

It's all documented there.

[E X C L]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Player[/url]
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Entity[/url]

[editline]27th November 2011[/editline]

Ninja'd

[Krizzu]

[QUOTE=_NewBee;33460758][url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Player[/url]
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Entity[/url]

[editline]27th November 2011[/editline]

Ninja'd[/QUOTE]
Thanks. How did You find it? In what section?

[UselessGhost]

Never use player as a variable name. You'll start overwriting the player library.