Lua Question(s)

[duggy]

Hey everyone! I am a very junior lua coder and am having an issue with implementing player.Custom functions (V:). How do I implement these so I can call upon them without getting the value nil?

[amic]

[QUOTE=duggy;50010185]Hey everyone! I am a very junior lua coder and am having an issue with implementing player.Custom functions (V:). How do I implement these so I can call upon them without getting the value nil?[/QUOTE]
Can you give me an example of how you are doing this at the moment?
EDIT:
Well generally you want to use [URL="https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Global/FindMetaTable"]FindMetaTable(name)[/URL]
Here's how:
[lua]
local player=FindMetaTable("Player")
function player:CustomKill(message)
self:ChatPrint(message)
self:Kill()
end
[/lua]
Then if you would call the function like
[lua]
playerEntity:CustomKill("And now, you are dead!")
[/lua]
It would kill the player and show them the message "And now you are dead!".
EDIT2:
In theory _R.Player should suffice, like
[lua]
local playerMeta=_R.Player
function playerMeta:CustomKill(message)
self:ChatPrint(message)
self:Kill()
end
[/lua]

[duggy]

[QUOTE=Amic;50010286]Can you give me an example of how you are doing this at the moment?
EDIT:
Well generally you want to use [URL="https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Global/FindMetaTable"]FindMetaTable(name)[/URL]
Here's how:
[lua]
local player=FindMetaTable("Player")
function player:CustomKill(message)
self:ChatPrint(message)
self:Kill()
end
[/lua]
Then if you would call the function like
[lua]
playerEntity:CustomKill("And now, you are dead!")
[/lua]
It would kill the player and show them the message "And now you are dead!".
EDIT2:
In theory _R.Player should suffice, like
[lua]
local playerMeta=_R.Player
function playerMeta:CustomKill(message)
self:ChatPrint(message)
self:Kill()
end
[/lua][/QUOTE]

Hey!thanks for the fast reply! But I was talking about adding a full new function. Like adding the function kill (this is assuming kill never existed).does that make more sense?

[amic]

[QUOTE=duggy;50010592]Hey!thanks for the fast reply! But I was talking about adding a full new function. Like adding the function kill (this is assuming kill never existed).does that make more sense?[/QUOTE]
To be honest you can override any existing function, even the Kill function, it's just a matter of the name. Hit me up on steam or show me your code for it and we can work it out I guess.

[duggy]

Well I dont want to override I want create