Some questions about making a custom gamemode.

[john55223]

BackGround:
I have gotten tired of all the same copy/paste "custom RP" blah blah blah, and decided to create my own custom gamemode, with different mechanics than any RP server I have seen on Gmod so far. I have 3 years of experience with Java, and have managed to grab a hold of LUA pretty quickly, but in terms of Gmod(hooks and functions) I am lost.

Help me :)
I have a few questions, and I would appreciate simple answers.
1. When a player joins, his model is some dark character, and there is no animations. Tools spawn at the crotch.(Base: sandbox). How would this be fixed? I am assuming that I would setup teams and give them models, fixing the model issue, but in regards to the tools spawning at the pubic region, and no animations for walk etc I have no clue how to fix it.
2. Is there a resource that can explain how to save data using sqlite, or just using text files? Link would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time, and help.

[Smt]

[QUOTE=john55223;46135614]1. When a player joins, his model is some dark character, and there is no animations. Tools spawn at the crotch.(Base: sandbox). How would this be fixed? I am assuming that I would setup teams and give them models, fixing the model issue, but in regards to the tools spawning at the pubic region, and no animations for walk etc I have no clue how to fix it.[/QUOTE]

I'm fairly sure the dark character just has no animations or anything so once given a proper playermodel they should have animations & correctly hold things, no idea about the second question though

[john55223]

[QUOTE=Smt;46135667]I'm fairly sure the dark character just has no animations or anything so once given a proper playermodel they should have animations & correctly hold things, no idea about the second question though[/QUOTE]

Thank you. I was worried that I would have to make my own animations.

[Aeternal]

These might help:
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/GetPData[/url]
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/SetPData[/url]

[john55223]

[QUOTE=Aeternal;46136021]These might help:
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/GetPData[/url]
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Player/SetPData[/url][/QUOTE]

Thank you! I will look through these.

[RonanZer0]

[QUOTE=john55223;46135614]
1. When a player joins, his model is some dark character, and there is no animations. Tools spawn at the crotch.(Base: sandbox).
[/QUOTE]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/PlayerSetModel[/url]

[Acecool]

More specifically... PlayerSpawn is supposed to hook.Call two other hooks... PlayerSetModel and PlayerLoadout; if you overwrite PlayerSpawn, don't forget to add the model and loadout hook calls.

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