Get position of a player?

[Xenoyia]

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to get the location of a player then use it in a function (i.e. a spawn prop vector) :smile: thanks.

In case you're wondering, i'm making a script which spawns a grave prop by someones corpse when they die, and have it disappear when they respawn.

[Lead4u]

[B][URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Gamemode.PlayerDeath"]Gamemode.PlayerDeath [IMG]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/IMG][/URL][/B]
[B][URL="http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Entity.GetPos"]Entity.GetPos [IMG]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/IMG][/URL][/B]

That should be what your looking for.

[Xenoyia]

Tried that but when I suicide, there's a slight lag and nothing appears.

"kill" takes 6 or 7 tries now too.

[lua]
function Graves()
local GLoc = Self:GetPos()
MakeGrave(Vector(GLoc), "models/props_c17/gravestone002a.mdl")
end

function spawnthegrave(position, model)
local entity1 = ents.create("prop_physics")
local angle1 = Vector(0,0,1):Angle();
angle1.pitch = angle1.pitch + 90;
angle1:RotateAroundAxis(angle1:Up(), math.random(0,360))
entity1:SetAngles(angle1)
entity1:SetModel(model)
local pos = position
pos.z = pos.z - entity1:OBBMaxs().z
entity1:SetPos( pos )
entity1:Spawn()
end

function GM:PlayerSpawn( ply )
entity1:Remove()
end
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "Graves",timer.Simple(1,Graves)[/lua]

The hook was below the first function at first, thought i'd move it to the bottom and see if that fixed it. It didn't :v:

[Xenoyia]

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;26175084]- Indent your code properly
- hook.Add is missing a ) and you can use a timer in a hook like that.[/QUOTE]

It was cut off in the copy-pasting. I've also tried removing the timer but no dice.

[editline]20th November 2010[/editline]

function Graves()
local GLoc = Self:GetPos()
MakeGrave(Vector(GLoc), "models/props_c17/gravestone002a.mdl")
end
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "DumbHookHere", Graves)

returns an error with the "GetPos" thing

[leiftiger]

Function Graves is missing the argument player, self does not exist, change the function header to
function Graves(pl) or function Graves(self) and it would work instantly. And I can't see a function named MakeGrave, are you trying to call spawnthegrave?

[Xenoyia]

Hey don't rate me dumb while i'm learning. That's not very good motivation :saddowns:

And that's not working anyway, i'm gonna check out the Lua wiki and try to get mine to work.