Help with lua! :<

[Yuoni]

Help, please!
I'm trying to check if owner of entity presses USE on it, but this doesn't work. Everytime the answer is "Error."..
Why? Help me please! Thanks.

function ENT:Use(activator)
 if activator == self.Owner then
  activator:ChatPrint("Done!")
 else
  activator:ChatPrint("Error.")
 end
end

(P.S. Sorry for my bad englsh)

[EvacX]

Did you actually assign the field "Owner" to anything?

[Trumple]

Without seeing the rest of the code...I can only assume self.Owner is not what you expected it to be. How are you creating the entity? Are you using ent:SetOwner or anything (if so, use ent:GetOwner())?
You can test this:

function ENT:Use(activator)
MsgN(activator:Nick())
MsgN(self.Owner:Nick())
end

I'd be willing to bet the second line within the function will fail, something along the lines of self.Owner being null or not a player object. But yes, post the full code

[EvacX]

[QUOTE=Trumple;41732779]Without seeing the rest of the code...I can only assume self.Owner is not what you expected it to be. How are you creating the entity? Are you using ent:SetOwner or anything (if so, use ent:GetOwner())?
You can test this:

function ENT:Use(activator)
MsgN(activator:Nick())
MsgN(self.Owner:Nick())
end

I'd be willing to bet the second line within the function will fail, something along the lines of self.Owner being null or not a player object. But yes, post the full code[/QUOTE]

He shouldn't use Get/SetOwner, they're for something entirely different AFAIK.

[Trumple]

[QUOTE=EvacX;41732837]He shouldn't use Get/SetOwner, they're for something entirely different AFAIK.[/QUOTE]

I think you're right, but we have no idea what he's trying to do here :v:

[Yuoni]

[QUOTE=Trumple;41732925]I think you're right, but we have no idea what he's trying to do here :v:[/QUOTE]
I trying to edit the Money Pot script: Only owner can pickup money from Money Pot.

[Co2]

[QUOTE=EvacX;41732837]He shouldn't use Get/SetOwner, they're for something entirely different AFAIK.[/QUOTE]
I remember garry adding a function to entities during one of his streams, it's called :SetOwner or something similar. I asked him whether it's okay to use it for propprotection and similar stuff, he said yes.

[Rubat]

[QUOTE=Co2;41733090]I remember garry adding a function to entities during one of his streams, it's called :SetOwner or something similar. I asked him whether it's okay to use it for propprotection and similar stuff, he said yes.[/QUOTE]

Except for the fact that it will make player nocollide will all his props then and won't be able to +use them.

[EvacX]

[QUOTE=Co2;41733090]I remember garry adding a function to entities during one of his streams, it's called :SetOwner or something similar. I asked him whether it's okay to use it for propprotection and similar stuff, he said yes.[/QUOTE]

That's just what the wiki says [b][url=http://gmodwiki.net/Lua/Classes/Entity/SetOwner]Lua/Classes/Entity/SetOwner[img]http://gmodwiki.net/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b] and [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Entity/SetOwner]Official Wiki[/url].

I searched through GMod's lua files and couldn't find anything regarding Get/SetOwner, however I found this:

[lua]
if ( SERVER ) then

function meta:SetCreator( ply )
self.m_PlayerCreator = ply
end

function meta:GetCreator()
return self.m_PlayerCreator;
end

end[/lua]

Possibly use Set/GetCreator, since they're already there?

[Dynn]

Since DarkRP is using FPP the owner should be assigned with CPPI.
Get the owner of the entity with
[lua]
self:CPPIGetOwner()
[/lua]

[EvacX]

[QUOTE=ms333;41734871]Since DarkRP is using FPP the owner should be assigned with CPPI.
Get the owner of the entity with
[lua]
self:CPPIGetOwner()
[/lua][/QUOTE]

Nobody mentioned DarkRP before you.

[Adult]

Isn't the money pot script for darkrp?

[&gt;&gt;oubliet]

(S/G)etOwner shouldn't be used, IIRC it's used on weapons that someone is holding.

For example :

[img]http://puu.sh/3Vr1E.png[/img]

It causes weird physics oddities when used on entities, as Robotboy said, one of the side effects is having them no-collide with the owner (like weapons do).

[Co2]

[QUOTE=EvacX;41733302]Set/GetCreator[/QUOTE]
That's what I was talking about.

[EvacX]

[QUOTE=Co2;41739580]That's what I was talking about.[/QUOTE]

Well there's a big difference between Get/SetCreator and Get/SetOwner.

Get/SetCreator are quite useless to be honest, they're just direct wrappers for the field "m_PlayerCreator" on any entity and the creator isn't set automatically, you have to do that yourself too.