Darkrp Arrest baton: changing colors on use.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hi, I am trying to get the Darkrp Arrest baton to change colors upon using. I have tried many ways to attempt at doing this. If anyone could help me that would be great. It has a material so conventional setcolor or setweaponcolor doesn’t work. This was my attempt at fixing it:


function SWEP:Initialize(wasInitialized)
    if (wasInitialized ~= true) then
    self:SetHoldType("normal")

    self.stickRange = 90
    if SERVER then return end

    stunstickMaterials = stunstickMaterials or {}


    local materialName = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    if stunstickMaterials[materialName] then return end

    CreateMaterial(materialName, "VertexLitGeneric", {
        ["$basetexture"] = "models/debug/debugwhite",
        ["$surfaceprop"] = "metal",
        ["$envmap"] = "env_cubemap",
        ["$envmaptint"] = "[ .5 .5 .5 ]",
        ["$selfillum"] = 0,
        ["$model"] = 1
    }):SetVector("$color2", self.StickColor:ToVector())
    else
    if SERVER then return end
    stunstickMaterials = stunstickMaterials or {}


    local materialName = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    if stunstickMaterials[materialName2] then return end
    CreateMaterial(materialName2, "VertexLitGeneric", {
        ["$basetexture"] = "models/debug/debugwhite",
        ["$surfaceprop"] = "metal",
        ["$envmap"] = "env_cubemap",
        ["$envmaptint"] = "[ .5 .5 .5 ]",
        ["$selfillum"] = 0,
        ["$model"] = 1
    }):SetVector("$color2", Color(127,127,127,127):ToVector())

    stunstickMaterials[materialName2] = true
    self.wasInitialized = true
    end
end

// it is called with BaseClass.Initialize(true)

and this is the error:


[ERROR] gamemodes/darkrp/entities/weapons/stick_base/shared.lua:40: attempt to index local 'self' (a boolean value)  1. Initialize - gamemodes/darkrp/entities/weapons/stick_base/shared.lua:40   2. unknown - gamemodes/darkrp/entities/weapons/arrest_stick/shared.lua:94
#2

When you’re calling BaseClass.Initialize, put what you’re trying to use as self as the first argument, like this
[lua]BaseClass.Initialize( self, true )[/lua]
Assuming you’re calling this in the weapon’s initialize function.

#3

That worked, thanks. The color of the baton is still unchanged though,

#4

http://forum.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1338430

#5

The DarkRP arrest baton already has a set material. Nothing given in that topic is working.

#6

materialName2 isn’t defined, and when you define it make sure you give it a different name from the first.

Also you have this
[lua]if SERVER then return end
stunstickMaterials = stunstickMaterials or {}[/lua]
two times, which is redundant.

#7

The first time was within an if statement, the second was in the else statement. I thought repetition would be necessary. Also I defined materialName2, still nothing


function SWEP:Initialize(wasInitialized)
    if (wasInitialized ~= true) then
    self:SetHoldType("normal")

    self.stickRange = 90
    if SERVER then return end

    stunstickMaterials = stunstickMaterials or {}


    local materialName = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    local materialName2 = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    if stunstickMaterials[materialName] then return end

    CreateMaterial(materialName, "VertexLitGeneric", {
        ["$basetexture"] = "models/debug/debugwhite",
        ["$surfaceprop"] = "metal",
        ["$envmap"] = "env_cubemap",
        ["$envmaptint"] = "[ .5 .5 .5 ]",
        ["$selfillum"] = 0,
        ["$model"] = 1
    }):SetVector("$color2", self.StickColor:ToVector())
    else
    if SERVER then return end
    local materialName2 = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    stunstickMaterials = stunstickMaterials or {}


    local materialName = "darkrp/" .. self:GetClass()
    if stunstickMaterials[materialName2] then return end
    CreateMaterial(materialName2, "VertexLitGeneric2", {
        ["$basetexture"] = "models/debug/debugwhite",
        ["$surfaceprop"] = "metal",
        ["$envmap"] = "env_cubemap",
        ["$envmaptint"] = "[ .5 .5 .5 ]",
        ["$selfillum"] = 0,
        ["$model"] = 1
    }):SetVector("$color2", Color(127,127,127,127):ToVector())

    stunstickMaterials[materialName2] = true
    self.wasInitialized = true
    end
end
#8

I didn’t notice the else, my bad.

CreateMaterial won’t recreate the material if it already exists, have you tried changing the material name or restarting your game?

#9

The else statement is there so when it initializes normally (if (wasInitialized ~= true)) it won’t get the effects of the else statement. Also I have tried restarting the game,

CreateMaterial( string name, string shaderName, table materialData )

that is the syntax. materialName and materialName2 are each unique string names. I want everything about everything to be the same except the color of it which is why the

SetVector("$color2", Color(127,127,127,127):ToVector())

is the only difference between them. I have also defined local materialName2 = “darkrp/” … self:GetClass()
it is exactly the same is 1 because i didn’t think any difference in that was necessary as only the colors are supposed to change.

[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]

Now what i’ve tried doing was changing the self.StickColor in the function then running self.Initialize(self) but the color still is not changing. I am at a bit of a loss.