Manipulating player sprays?

[jimbodude]

Hey,

So I'm using something alike the following on my server, which does work nicely:
[lua]
if SERVER then

AddCSLuaFile("trace_dem_sprays.lua")

function ResetSpray( pl )
pl:SetNWVector( "SprayPos", Vector( 0, 0, 0 ) )
end
hook.Add( "PlayerInitialSpawn", "ResetSpray", ResetSpray )

function OnSpray( pl )
local pos = pl:GetEyeTrace().HitPos
pl:SetNWVector( "SprayPos", pos )
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSpray", "HandleSpray", OnSpray )

end -- (end server)

if CLIENT then

function ShowSprayOwner()
local Trace = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
local LookAt = Trace.HitPos

for _, pl in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
local SPos = pl:GetNWVector( "SprayPos" )

if SPos != Vector(0, 0, 0) and LookAt:Distance( SPos ) < 32 and Trace.HitWorld and LocalPlayer():GetPos():Distance( SPos ) < 400 then
local Text = pl:Nick() .. "'s Spray"
local Text2 = pl:SteamID()
surface.SetFont( "ScoreboardText" )
local w, h = surface.GetTextSize( Text )
local w2, h2 = surface.GetTextSize( Text2 )
w = w + 5
h = h + 5
w2 = w2 + 5
h2 = h2 + 5

draw.WordBox( 6, ScrW() / 2 - w / 2, ScrH() / 2 - h / 2, Text, "ScoreboardText", Color( 0, 0, 0, 200 ), team.GetColor( pl:Team() ) )
draw.WordBox( 6, ScrW() / 2 - w2 / 2, (ScrH() / 2 - h2 / 2) + 32, Text2, "ScoreboardText", Color( 0, 0, 0, 200 ), Color(255,255,255,255) )
end
end
end
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "ShowSprayOwner", ShowSprayOwner )
function PrintSprayOwner()
local Trace = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace()
local LookAt = Trace.HitPos
for _, pl in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
local SPos = pl:GetNWVector( "SprayPos" )
if SPos != Vector(0, 0, 0) and LookAt:Distance( SPos ) < 32 and Trace.HitWorld and LocalPlayer():GetPos():Distance( SPos ) < 400 then
local Text = pl:Nick() .. "'s"
local Text2 = pl:SteamID()
chat.AddText(team.GetColor( pl:Team() ),Text,Color(255,255,255,255),Text2,team.GetColor( pl:Team() ),"Spray" )
end
end
end
concommand.Add("spraytrace",PrintSprayOwner)

end -- (end client)
[/lua]
What would be the best way to detect if sprays overlap?
How could I then go about adding a command to remove the spray?

[jimbodude]

Sorry for the so recent bump, just really hoping someone has some ways of doing what I mentioned above?

I was thinking that perhaps each player spray creates a new entity, but when checking for this both client and server side, entity count stayed exactly the same before and after spraying :(

[Pugsworth]

Sorry this is 4 days late but one idea is that all sprays are sprayed the same size no matter the size of the actual spray. so you could get the spraypos + the size then detect if another spraypos + size is within the last.

I hope you get what I mean.

[jimbodude]

[QUOTE=vexx21322;27667361]Sorry this is 4 days late but one idea is that all sprays are sprayed the same size no matter the size of the actual spray. so you could get the spraypos + the size then detect if another spraypos + size is within the last.

I hope you get what I mean.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I did it slightly different, and simply added a counter into the for loop, and once it exceeded 1, broke out of it. Thanks a lot anyways.