Auto Turret credit kills to owner?

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hey guys, I have been making an auto turret SWEP. It spawns the NPC but I was wandering, how would I make it so the kills that the turret gets are credited to the owner? I am not even sure if this is possible. I have thought of some hacky solutions but I would like to know if there is a proper way.

Here is a snippet of code:


	turret = ents.Create( "npc_turret_floor" )
		
		
		  local tr = util.TraceLine({start=ply:GetShootPos(), endpos=ply:GetShootPos() + ply:GetAimVector() * 230, filter={ply, self.Entity}, mask=MASK_SOLID}) 
		  if tr.HitNonWorld then return end
		  
		  if tr.HitWorld then
		turret:SetHealth(55)
		turret:SetPos(tr.HitPos)
		 turret:DropToFloor()
       turret:SetAngles(Angle(0,self.Owner:EyeAngles().y,self.Owner:EyeAngles().r))
	   self.Owner:EmitSound(placesound)
#2

You could create the turret manually and use FireBullets( bullet table )

Then, in your bullet structure you could do

[LUA]bullet.Attacker = self.Owner[/LUA]

#3

That would work, but that means I would have to spend forever making my own auto turret :P.
I might be able to make the turret out of ammo so it doesn’t fire but it still aims at people, then parent the firebullet to its muzzle. But how would I do that?

#4

You should be able to:: PLAYER:AddFrags( 1 ); where PLAYER is the owner of the turret when a player is killed and the attacker/entity is a turret.

#5

The only problem is that it is in TTT, I have a script that shows who killed you and it wouldn’t show up on that.

#6

Why not? Set the Frags in PlayerDeath. Now, the thing that shows who kills you would see the entity right? Add something like this to that ::

[lua]// If the killer was a turret
if ( killer:GetClass == “turret” ) then
// Show the killer name as the entity owner.
end[/lua]

Edit : Changed how it was written but forgot to remove the !

#7

Wow, I didn’t think of that. I’ll go try it out and let you know if it worked.

[editline]30th September 2013[/editline]

Hey thanks, it worked. It took a bit of fiddeling but it is working now :slight_smile:

Thanks guys.