Networking is not-working? 2

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Im not sure if im cursed when it comes to networking or just bad at it. Anyways this time I have been trying to network an entity to client.



function SetSuspectInfo(ply,headshots,viewsnaps,wallkills)

	net.Start( "SuspectShareData" )
	net.WriteEntity(ply)
	net.WriteInt(headshots,32)
	net.WriteInt(viewsnaps,32)
	net.WriteInt(wallkills,32)
	net.Broadcast()
	
	print(ply)
	print(headshots)
	print(viewsnaps)
	print(wallkills)
	
end

-- client below

net.Receive( "SuspectShareData", function()

	local ply = net.ReadEntity()
	local headshots = net.ReadInt(32)
	local viewsnaps = net.ReadInt(32)
	local wallkills = net.ReadInt(32)

	print(ply)
	print(headshots)
	print(viewsnaps)
	print(wallkills)

end )

This returns the following.



Player [1][Leafdroid]
1
2
3
-- client below
[NULL Entity]
1
2
3

Why is the float valid but the entity isnt?

#2

I need help with this again. Last time I did a cheap fix by setting the weapons skins and then getting the damage by doing something like (SharedTable[weapon:GetSkin()].Damage) but I cant do that this time. Whats wrong with the code above? (Edited it from last time)

#3

May this be something?

From the wiki

I don’t know what information you need from the player but maybe you can replace net.writeentity with something else?

#4

You could write player’s userID in net message instead of the player entity itself, and then replace net.ReadEntity() with Player(net.ReadInt(32)) clienside.

#5

I dont think I can since I need to set a variable to the players entity. Unless I turn it into an integer with the players ID and cycle through all the players and find the one who matches it.

#6

Have you tried using a timer? Sometimes if the entity is freshly spawned on the server, it takes a few milliseconds for it to get networked correctly to the client.

Also, some entities only exist serverside.

#7

Yep.

Dont think players are one of those entities.

#8

Try this but with -noaddons -noworkshop

[editline]3rd October 2017[/editline]

ON THE server

#9

Didn’t work either, instead I ran “ply.ID = #player.GetAll()” in initialspawn and networked the ID, then found the player using “player.GetByID()”.

#10

Why would you do that though?

Imagine a situation: 2 players join a server, they have ids 1 and 2, then player 1 leaves and another player joins, #player.GetAll() is 2 because 2 players are online so player 3 gets id 2, result: both players have id 2.

Did my solution not work? http://forum.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1580556&p=52742325&viewfull=1#post52742325

Edit: example of using it


if SERVER then
    util.AddNetworkString("net_test")

    hook.Add("DoPlayerDeath", "Networking test", function(plr)
        net.Start("net_test")
        net.WriteInt(plr:UserID(), 32) -- edit : I forgot the '32' initially 
        net.Broadcast()
    end)
else
    net.Receive("net_test", function()
        local plr = Player(net.ReadInt(32))
        chat.AddText("Player ", plr:Nick(), " has died!")
    end)
end
#11

This is what I tried first, but for some reason ply:UserID() returned like 29 even tho I was alone on the server and player.GetByID(29) wasnt valid.

#12

Because player.GetByID() doesn’t return by UserID, Player() does, see my example.

#13

Can you post the rest of your code or at least a small example so I can test?

#14

No need I got it all figured out.