Problems That Don't Need Their Own Thread v2.0

[Dgc2002]

Getting pretty frustrated with this. I'm messing around with RenderView/RenderTarget with Orthographic projection. Has anyone with experience using this had this specific problem:

[vid]http://puu.sh/dT6pt.flv[/vid]
(The yellow sphere is where the camera position is)

I have the RenderView's angles set to reflect mine + Angle(0, 90, 0). Depending on the ortho settings(top/bottom/left/right) it will squish the view to about half of the space I'm looking at. In the video it happens at between 106 and 107. I haven't found that reliable of a pattern related to the exact angles but man is this frustrating. Even more frustrating is the fact that not only did I not have this problem for a long time, it looked much much better. But I had forgotten that GetRenderTarget doesn't update the RenderTarget unless the name provided doesn't already exist -.- So when I exited gmod and came back some changes kicked in.

[UnkN]

Hi. I want to make material, that based on two materials, etc. white stripes on black, but I didn't know, how working with materials. Also, how csgo developers make stickers on weapon? Please help:)

[isnipeu]

[QUOTE=Acecool;46827663]Shootpos is the center of the face.. For you to get the barrel of the world-model you'd need to use GetAttachment / LookupAttachment etc...

Take a look at Robots viewer tool ( esp shows all attachpoints )[/QUOTE] Except this was taken from the toolgun code so I don't see why it shouldn't work.

[RedNinja]

How do I access an entitie's network vars through cl_init? Self:GetVar() is unrecognizable

attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)

[Dynn]

[QUOTE=RedNinja;46828048]How do I access an entitie's network vars through cl_init? Self:GetVar() is unrecognizable

attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)

[/QUOTE]

Replace self with the entity. Self is usually used within metamethod functions.

[RedNinja]

[QUOTE=ms333;46828088]Replace self with the entity. Self is usually used within metamethod functions.[/QUOTE]

What do you mean by entity?

[Dynn]

[QUOTE=RedNinja;46828100]What do you mean by entity?[/QUOTE]
You just said you wanted an entity's vars. So obviously it's that entity you should use.

[RedNinja]

[QUOTE=ms333;46828107]You just said you wanted an entity's networked vars. So obviously it's that entity you should use.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. Quite obvious, yet how do I access it?

[Dynn]

Access what? The entity? You hopefully know which entity you're targeting?

[RedNinja]

[QUOTE=ms333;46828127]Access what? The entity? You hopefully know which entity you're targeting?[/QUOTE]

I'll clear some things.
I have this NPC entity. It's mood changes every X seconds. Which means it'll randomly choose if he's currently buying an item, selling it, or both.

[LUA]
if self:GetWillBuy() and self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll buy and sell shrooms.") end
if !self:GetWillBuy() and self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll only sell shrooms now.") end
if self:GetWillBuy() and !self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll only buy shrooms. Got any?") end
[/LUA]

Self is unrecognizable.

[Commander11]

[QUOTE=RedNinja;46828136]I'll clear some things.
I have this NPC entity. It's mood changes every X seconds. Which means it'll randomly choose if he's currently buying an item, selling it, or both.

[LUA]
if self:GetWillBuy() and self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll buy and sell shrooms.") end
if !self:GetWillBuy() and self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll only sell shrooms now.") end
if self:GetWillBuy() and !self:GetWillSell() then
txt:SetText("I'll only buy shrooms. Got any?") end
[/LUA]

Self is unrecognizable.[/QUOTE]

Where the heck are you calling this.

[RedNinja]

[QUOTE=Commander11;46828143]Where the heck are you calling this.[/QUOTE]

Client. Where my derma is.

[Dynn]

Self will only be defined if you run the above code in a metamethod function like this: function ENT:DecideMood() as example. If you're running this with a timer, you could create the timer in your enrity 's init function where self is defined as the NPC itself.

[RedNinja]

[QUOTE=ms333;46828147]Self will only be defined if you run the above code in a metamethod function like this: function ENT:DecideMood() as example. If you're running this with a timer, you could create the timer in your enrity 's init function where self is defined as the NPC itself.[/QUOTE]

The timer is in the init. Anyways, if I make it a metamethod, how do i call it?

usermessage.Hook( "shroomies", shroomMenu ) is what i have in cl init so far and

umsg.Start( "shroomies", activator )
umsg.End( )

in init.

[Acecool]

[QUOTE=isnipeu;46827986]Except this was taken from the toolgun code so I don't see why it shouldn't work.[/QUOTE]

Lookup the toolgun fire effect. Many entities/effects/ look for the muzzle in the effect code instead of it being set when it gets used.

I couldn't find ToolTracer in code, but it does set self.Weapon as the entity. From there is most likely grabs the muzzle.. It may use the shootpos for a trace, or something else...

Are you using the toolgun model, or a different one?

[editline]31st December 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=RedNinja;46828166]The timer is in the init. Anyways, if I make it a metamethod, how do i call it?

usermessage.Hook( "shroomies", shroomMenu ) is what i have in cl init so far and

umsg.Start( "shroomies", activator )
umsg.End( )

in init.[/QUOTE]

Set up a timer or use ENT:Think to change the mood at random intervals. When mood changes use

// Somewhere in server code:
util.AddNetworkString( "UpdateNPCMood" );

// Inside of the Initialize for entity:

function ENT:Initialize( )
	// Declare the function and attach to this entity..
	self.TimerDone = function( )
		if ( !IsValid( self ) ) then return; end

		self.Mood = MoonEnumeration;
		net.Start( "UpdateNPCMood" );
			net.WriteEntity( self );
			net.WriteInt( MoonEnumeration, 8 ); -- 8 bits is enough to get up to 255 or so
		net.Broadcast( );

		// Have the function call the timer.... unless the entity died..
		timer.Simple( math.random( 60, 300 ), self.TimerDone );
	end
end

timer.Simple( math.random( 60, 300 ), TimerDone );

Have a

net.Receive( "UpdateNPCMood", function( _len )
	local _ent = net.ReadEntity( )
	_ent.Mood = net.ReadInt( 8 );
end );	

on the client and have the client read Mood...

[isnipeu]

[QUOTE=Acecool;46828412]Lookup the toolgun fire effect. Many entities/effects/ look for the muzzle in the effect code instead of it being set when it gets used.

I couldn't find ToolTracer in code, but it does set self.Weapon as the entity. From there is most likely grabs the muzzle.. It may use the shootpos for a trace, or something else...

Are you using the toolgun model, or a different one?[/QUOTE] self and self.Weapon are the exact same thing, I did a print to double check that. ToolTracer is an effect set in the base gamemode, and yes I'm using the default toolgun model (look at the video I posted before).

[Willox]

Please nobody use self.Weapon or self.Entity. They have 0 function other than to return the entity you are indexing.

[Exho]

I thought they were deprecated and its better just to use self

[DevulTj]

[thumb]http://puu.sh/dTTkV/b4c7c5e1d4.jpg[/thumb]

I'm trying to add it so you can drag with the left mouse on the map so you can look around it via this in-game map, but I'm stumped on how this is possible. Is anyone able to help me with this? I seriously have no idea how this is done.

[Exho]

Does anyone know the rgb color for serverside printing? I got lucky and found out Color( 255, 255, 100 ) is the clientside color

[DevulTj]

[QUOTE=Exho;46830175]Does anyone know the rgb color for serverside printing? I got lucky and found out Color( 255, 255, 100 ) is the clientside color[/QUOTE]
[B]Edit:[/B]
It's the same colour as ErrorNoHalt, as seen below.

[mcd1992]

[QUOTE=Exho;46830175]Does anyone know the rgb color for serverside printing? I got lucky and found out Color( 255, 255, 100 ) is the clientside color[/QUOTE]

print() just prints in white doesn't it?

The only other color I'm aware of is the blue that ErrorNoHalt prints in. Color(0, 128, 255) ?

[rebel1324]

How do I get rid of this REEEED alpha stuff from the texture
[t]http://i.imgur.com/lPMfx2B.png[/t]

[editline]1st January 2015[/editline]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/cPYQIbf.png[/t]
Original Gasmask

[WalkingZombie]

One, nice texture... idk if you made it but it looks cool. Two, are you asking how to fix the fact that it looks red in-game? Because that just seems weird to me, and with my other textures with transparency I've never seen that happen.

[editline]31st December 2014[/editline]

Do you have a draw color set, or a variable to set the color of the texture, somewhere? I did a little tinting thing with one of my textures by doing that. If the color is 255, 255, 255, 255 RGBA, it would render without any tint.
[sp]Then again, idr if I colored the texture, or I colored something behind the texture to do the tinting... that doesn't change anything, though. Either way, colors will change.[/sp]

[Rubat]

[QUOTE=rebel1324;46830598]How do I get rid of this REEEED alpha stuff from the texture
[t]http://i.imgur.com/lPMfx2B.png[/t]

[editline]1st January 2015[/editline]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/cPYQIbf.png[/t]
Original Gasmask[/QUOTE]

Are you resetting the color to white before drawing the mask?

[WalkingZombie]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46831117]Are you resetting the color to white before drawing the mask?[/QUOTE]

Yes. The color must be white if you're gonna draw something that you don't want colored.

[rebel1324]

HOLY HELL I'M STUPID

[WalkingZombie]

Well anyway, a way to make a good tint is to have the overlay you want at pure white, but before you render it you render a colored box, with low alpha. I used surface. and draw. to do such a thing:

	local LC = render.GetLightColor( self.Owner:GetShootPos() )	LCL = LerpVector( 0.005, LCL, Vector( LC.r*2.0+0.5, LC.g*2.0+0.5, LC.b*2.0+0.5 ) )	-- Just a simple way to smooth out the lighting when the player moves between areas. This does not adjust based on actual time.
	local ID = surface.GetTextureID( self.IronScopeName )		-- The name of your overlay


	surface.SetDrawColor( 128, 120, 96, 96 )
	surface.DrawRect( 0, 0, ScrW(), ScrH() )
	surface.SetDrawColor( 255, 255, 255, 255 )


	local Scope =
	{
		texture = ID,
		color = Color( LCL.x*255, LCL.y*255, LCL.z*255 ),
		x = ScrW()*0.5-(ScrH()*0.90195),	-- My texture was 4096x4096, with a lot of just pure black on the sides. I made it extend past the edges of the game window. It's a little weird that I needed such a specific decimal, but that centers it properly.
		y = -ScrH()*0.4,
		w = ScrH()*1.8,
		h = ScrH()*1.8
	}
	draw.TexturedQuad( Scope )

[rebel1324]

The ViewModel can't be drawn over "Refract" Type Material Shader.
How do I solve this problem? It seems this type of material draws well on "Overlay" format but I can't find any source of that Overlay.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/fR62DRr.jpg[/t]

[urHabibi]

Do you guys know if it evens possible to download a gma file to your dedicated server without uploading it from your own PC because that just kills my internet...