DarkRP Printer Cooler Help

[Crossu88]

So I decided using DarkRP was the best way for me to learn Lua, it's my third day and I've been experimenting with adding non-templated code to the lua and I've run into a snag with the printer cooling.

The Printer's Init Lua: [URL]http://pastebin.com/753mzjyH[/URL]
The Printer's Cl_init Lua: [URL]http://pastebin.com/YXwDK5ca[/URL]

Incase you're wondering, I'm editing [URL="http://www.garrysmod.org/user/?u=1630179"]©rzlar[/URL]'s printer cooler.

Can anyone help me out here? dunno what to do.

[editline]3rd September 2012[/editline]

Sorry, forgot to mention my intentions.

The idea is that a Boolean or something goes off in the init.lua, when this boolean goes off a value in cl_init.lua turns on and sets a text to return to txt3 as "Cooling" or "Not Cooling."

Thanks for any help.

[BL00DB4TH]

You can use NWVars.

self:SetNWBool( "cooling", true ) serverside will allow you to call self:GetNWBool( "cooling" ) clientside and retrieve the value.

[Kingof🅱east]

Or you can use DTVars

[Crossu88]

Thanks BL00DB4TH.

Whats DTVars for future reference KingofBeast?

[Kingof🅱east]

I'm fairly sure that DTVars update with usermessages only when needed, an advantage over NWVars.

I haven't ever really messed with them, but they seem to be simple. I believe that the engine automatically calls ent:SetupDataTables() when an ent is created so you would need to give that function, it's shared so both client and server need it, and it would look something like this

[lua]
function ENT:SetupDataTables()
self:DTVar("Int",0,"price")
self:DTVar("Entity",1,"owning_ent")
end
[/lua]

And then you can do things like ent:SetDTInt("price", 9001) or ent:GetDTInt("price")

[Crossu88]

It seems that I can't get the Boolean to work, I make the Boolean turns a message that makes the printer's 2d3d say "Cooled," but when the Boolean is off is makes the printer's 2d3d say that the printer Isn't Being Cooled. I can't get this to work, can someone print me out an example code?

[Ruzza]

Please don't use NWVars, this is one of the main problems that cause Reliable Snapshot Overflow, use usermessages or very small DTVars.