Lua entitys inside a map?

[Ningaglio]

Hello, I am working on some entitys made from Lua and i don't know how i would set the KetValues in the map, and retrieve them in Lua. Simple stuff like angle , Vector, and a custom key-value.

Would anyone be able to explain this to me? thanks in advance

[Lord Ned]

Add them to your FGD like so:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Solid Classes
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------

@SolidClass base(TeamNum) = func_checkpoint : 
	"Volume that determines a checkpoint. A player that reaches this checkpoint fires it off for the entire team."
[
	checkpointnum(integer) : "Checkpoint Number: " : 0 : "Which checkpoint is this? Starts at 0."
]

Then in your entity (Say a func_checkpoint) do:
[lua]
ENT.Type = "brush"
ENT.CheckpointNum = -1
AddCSLuaFile( "shared.lua" )

function ENT:KeyValue(k,v)
if k == "checkpointnum" then
self.CheckpointNum = tonumber(v)
end
end[/lua]

Place that inside the shared.lua. It'll automatically read the KeyValues when spawned and set ENT.CheckpointNum to self.CheckpointNum.

[Ningaglio]

How would i do it with point entitys?

[editline]3rd December 2010[/editline]

and where is the FDG?

[Bkacjios]

FDG's are found in sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin

Example of a pointclass.

@PointClass base(Angles) studioprop("models/props_junk/sawblade001a.mdl") = lounge_top10 :
	"Top10 Scoreboard"
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]

[Lord Ned]

Generally one has to make the FGD.

[Ningaglio]

Yes, but also, for some reason, Entity:GetAngles doesn't work on my entity, it always returns Angle( 0 , 0, 0). Anyway, thanks for the help

[Lord Ned]

I had issues getting the position of a brush-entity that was in the map... Finally did:
[lua]
for f,u in pairs( ents.FindByClass("func_checkpoint")) do
--print(tostring(k)..tostring(v))
print("Checkpoint Num: "..tostring(u.CheckpointNum))
print("Team Num: "..tostring(u.Team))

if (u.CheckpointNum == 0 && u.Team == 2) then --ORANGE
checkpoint1Position = u:LocalToWorld(u:OBBCenter())
print("Checkpoint1Position: "..tostring(checkpoint1Position))
end
if (u.CheckpointNum == 1 && u.Team == 2) then --ORANGE
checkpoint2Position = u:LocalToWorld(u:OBBCenter())
end
if (u.CheckpointNum == 2 && u.Team == 2) then --ORANGE
print("checkpoint3Position blah")
checkpoint3Position = u:LocalToWorld(u:OBBCenter())
end
if (u.CheckpointNum == 3 && u.Team == 2) then --ORANGE
checkpoint4Position = u:LocalToWorld(u:OBBCenter())
end
end
[/lua]

So you might have to try some of the other functions.