How to make healing entities heal over time instead of instantly?

[YourFriendJoe]

So I've been working on some consumable items for a roleplay server, but it's serious roleplay so it needs to stick as close to the game as possible. Is there a way to make it so eating something heals over time? For instance, eating a box of potatoes would restore 5 points all together, but only one point within, say, 10 seconds. Thanks in advance.

[MIKEYMASTALSKi]

Very broad question.

Using a timer + SetHP +1 shouldn't be too hard?

[samm5506]

Using something similar to this on the server should work.

[lua]function Player:Heal()
self.NextHeal = CurTime()
self.NumHeals = 5
end

local HealDelay = 3 -- seconds
local HealAmount = 1

hook.Add( "Think", "PlayerHealOverTime", function()

for _, ply in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do

if !IsValid(ply) or !ply:Alive() then continue end

if ply.NextHeal and ply.NextHeal < CurTime() and ply.NumHeals > 0 then

ply:SetHealth( ply:Health() + HealAmount )
ply.NextHeal = CurTime() + HealDelay
ply.NumHeals = ply.NumHeals - 1

end

end

end )[/lua]

[Cush]

[QUOTE=samm5506;38978119]Using something similar to this on the server should work.

[lua]function Player:Heal()
self.NextHeal = CurTime()
self.NumHeals = 5
end

local HealDelay = 3 -- seconds
local HealAmount = 1

hook.Add( "Think", "PlayerHealOverTime", function()

for _, ply in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do

if !IsValid(ply) or !ply:Alive() then continue end

if ply.NextHeal and ply.NextHeal < CurTime() and ply.NumHeals > 0 then

ply:SetHealth( ply:Health() + HealAmount )
ply.NextHeal = CurTime() + HealDelay
ply.NumHeals = ply.NumHeals - 1

end

end

end )[/lua][/QUOTE]

This would be quite an inefficient way to do it considering you are looping through every player every tick even when nobody is healing. Timers would be a better way to do it.

Something like this (Probably wont run straight out of the post and I just did it so you get the idea, would need some extra bits and pieces filled in)

Its a bit more advanced than what you asked, taking into account people eating more than one piece of food at a time. Heal amount and ticks are stacking and evenly awarded, for example a player with 2 heal ticks of 5hp each eats food worth 5 heal ticks of 25, he will heal 30hp over 7 ticks (around 4hp/tick) A bit more jiggery could be used to have dynamic delays on the timers but yeah, you get the point.

[lua]
function timedHeal(ply, amount, ticks)
if timer.IsTimer(ply:Nick() .. "heal") then

timer.Destroy(ply:Nick() .. "heal")
ply.healTick = ply.healTick + ticks
ply.healAmount = ply.healAmount + amount
local healPerTick = ply.healAmount / ply.healTick

timer.Create(ply:Nick() .. "heal", 3, ply.healTick, function()
ply:SetHealth(math.max(ply:Health() + healPerTick, 100))
ply.healTick = ply.healTick - 1
ply.healAmount = ply.healAmount - healPerTick
end)

else

ply.healTick = ticks
ply.healAmount = amount
local healPerTick = amount / ticks
timer.Create(ply:Nick() .. "heal", 3, ply.healTick, function()
ply:SetHealth(math.max(ply:Health() + healPerTick, 100))
ply.healTick = ply.healTick - 1
ply.healAmount = ply.healAmount - healPerTick
end)

end

end[/lua]

I'm not 100% on the new timers and passing arguments to them since I haven't done much coding for GM13, but I think this is correct.