Prop-er (Har Har) way to make a prop with lua?

[SeveredSkull]

Allright, so this has annoyed me for a while now. Anyone care to give me some sample code on how to make a prop properly with pure lua?
All the techniques I try either:
- don't have physics for the player spawning it, but works for everyone else
- has physics for players, but not other props
- Have odd physics that seem to be out of sync with the client's positioning of it.
- No physics at all

I've tried just about everything. Setting collision groups, waking the physics multiple times, setting it to a solid, changing the move type, etc. yet it does not seem to want to work properly. Calling GM.Spawn doesn't seem to be working with this either. And before I am asked, this is model independent.

[Netheous]

Proper is actually a thing for Hammer Editor.
I don't think you can create models using lua and then spawn them whenever you want.

The only thing I can come to think of is IMesh, but it also won't save anything to .mdl

[CGNick]

[lua]local prop = ents.Create("prop_physics")
prop:SetModel("model_name_goes_here.mdl")
prop:Spawn()[/lua]

[DeltaPhantom]

If you're not using prop_physics, try this.

Serverside:
[lua]function ENT:Initialize()
self:SetModel("your/model/here.mdl")
self:PhysicsInit(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
self:SetSolid(SOLID_VPHYSICS)
local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()
if phys:IsValid() then
phys:Wake()
end
end[/lua]

[SeveredSkull]

[QUOTE=CGNick;40374752]
local prop = ents.Create("prop_physics") prop:SetModel("model_name_goes_here.mdl") prop:Spawn()
[/QUOTE]

That's what I've done initially, as well as I have ever had to do, but it results in the case listed in the OP: It has physics for everyone but not other props.

[editline]22nd April 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=Netheous;40374560]Proper is actually a thing for Hammer Editor.
I don't think you can create models using lua and then spawn them whenever you want.

The only thing I can come to think of is IMesh, but it also won't save anything to .mdl[/QUOTE]

I wasn't asking how to make a .mdl file. The title was just a pun. Sorry for the confusion.
I need to spawn any given model and have physics work.

[editline]22nd April 2013[/editline]

Just so we are all informed: What I am doing:

function SpawnProp(len, ply)
    local tr = ply:TraceFromEyes(200)
    local pos = tr.HitPos + Vector(0,0,20)
    local prop = ents.Create("prop_physics")
    prop:SetModel(net.ReadString())
    prop:SetPos(pos)
    prop:SetOwner(ply)
    prop:SetSolid( SOLID_VPHYSICS )
    prop:PhysicsInit( SOLID_VPHYSICS ) 
    prop:SetCollisionGroup( COLLISION_GROUP_PLAYER )
    prop:Spawn()
end

I changed out the sold, physics, and collisions groups to every combination possible with no luck, only to have the issues in OP

[find me]

[QUOTE=CGNick;40374752][lua]local prop = ents.Create("prop_physics")
prop:SetModel("model_name_goes_here.mdl")
prop:Spawn()[/lua][/QUOTE]

If this doesn't work how it should, you're most likely having some conflicting scripts/code somewhere.

[SeveredSkull]

[QUOTE=find me;40379280]If this doesn't work how it should, you're most likely having some conflicting scripts/code somewhere.[/QUOTE]

And that's exactly why this is frustrating me to the ends of the earth. I was thinking it was an issue with my server, which I may just do a quick reinstall to see if that fixes it. I just wanted to post here and see to make sure I wasn't being a complete dipshit.

[SeveredSkull]

-snip-

I think this is a bug. Posted a thread here:
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1266342&p=40438975#post40438975[/url]