How to make an object think?

[Hysteria100]

Something I'm working on involves a new object type, which are just tables with assigned/inherited methods and vars, only functioning clientside, and they feature functions such as Draw and Think which need to run every tick.

At the moment, I just call draw for the top object in a hierarchy, draw calls think, and also draw for all child objects, and the process repeats. It doesn't feel very efficient - so, I'm wondering what calls similar functions for entities and so on, and if it's something I can/should employ, to make these methods be called automatically every tick for these objects?

[Kogitsune]

The only solution is to call it in the correct hook.

local function Tick( )
  local k, v

  for k, v in pairs( objects ) do
    if v.Tick then
      v:Tick( )
    end
  end
end

hook.Add( "Tick", "Objects.Tick", Tick )

And so on.

[Hysteria100]

Very helpful! Thanks. Haven't had to work with hooks much before, am reading up again now. If I add the hook clientside, will it only be run clientside, or should I include that condition in the function?

[Kogitsune]

If you code is only ran on the client, then, yes, it will only run clientside.

[blown25]

whats the difference between think and tick?

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[grunewald]

from wiki..

Syntax GM:Tick( )
Description Like Think except called every tick on both client and server.

Syntax GM:Think( )
Description Called every frame

[blown25]

[QUOTE=grunewald;26461414]from wiki..

Syntax GM:Tick( )
Description Like Think except called every tick on both client and server.

Syntax GM:Think( )
Description Called every frame[/QUOTE]

cool, thanks