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Garry's Mod coding
#1

I have been working on my starwars rp server (from scratch) and I have come across something I never thought of doing before and I really look forward to doing this; color chat with regiment and class tags (just networked strings) but in the players name when he or her talk in chat.

How might I do this, I have looked up how and all I can find is OnPlayerChat, apon editing and bug testing I had no luck except errors.
Any ideas?


-- Ranking names in order, the rank that comes first is always used for new players!
GM.Config.Ranks = { "Cadet", "PVT", "PFC", "LCPL","CPL", "SGT", "CSGT", "SGM", "COM" }

-- Default Regiments in order (You can add new regiments ingame)
GM.Config.DefaultRegiments = { 
	{
		name = "Recruit", 
		color = Color( 200, 200, 200 ), 
		weapons = { "weapon_fists" },
		model = "",
		id = 1
	},
	{
		name = "Storm Trooper", 
		color = Color( 200, 10, 200 ), 
		weapons = { "weapon_fists" },
		model = "",
		id = 2
	}
}

player:GetNWString( “RPRank” ) and player:GetNWInt( “Regiment” ) – Returns the regiments number id.

Can someone help?

#2

What have you tried so far with OnPlayerChat hook?

#3 


function GM:OnPlayerChat( player, strText, bTeamOnly, bPlayerIsDead )

	--
	-- I've made this all look more complicated than it is. Here's the easy version
	--
	-- chat.AddText( player, Color( 255, 255, 255 ), ": ", strText )
	--

	local tab = {}

	if ( bPlayerIsDead ) then
		table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 30, 40 ) )
		table.insert( tab, "*DEAD* " )
	end

	if ( bTeamOnly ) then
		table.insert( tab, Color( 30, 160, 40 ) )
		table.insert( tab, "( TEAM ) " )
	end

	if ( IsValid( player ) ) then
                table.insert( tab, player:GetNWString("RPRank") .." ".. player )
	else
		table.insert( tab, "Console" )
	end

	table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 255 ) )
	table.insert( tab, ": "..strText )

	chat.AddText( unpack( tab ) )

	return true

end

And I tried looping my configuration of my default regiments to see if the player is that regiment id in ply:GetNWInt(“Regiment”) <-- example … and if they are in regiment then grab reg[“name”] and reg[“color”] so it looks like this: [Regiment Color] [Regiment Name] [Rank] [Name]: [Message]

But when I tried it I got errors and nothing happen so I shortened it to the rank thingo

[editline]10th October 2017[/editline]

(and yes the good coder I am I copied and pasted it to just see how it worked)

#4

The problem with your code is this line:
[lua]table.insert( tab, player:GetNWString(“RPRank”) …" "… player )[/lua]
In this line, you’re attempting to concatenate a string with a player, which you can’t do. If you take a look at

chat.AddText, you can see that it accepts a Player as an argument which results in the name of the player being added. But when you try to concatenate a string with a userdata value, it’ll error. So what you’ll want to do instead is insert the “RPRank” into the table before the Player - and make sure you always have a fallback when using

Entity:GetNWString.

#5

so can I just do player:Nick()?

#6

Yup, that will return his username. If you want to concatenate vectors or numbers you can do tostring(number)

#7

Okay ill try it I guess thnx (I already knew about tostring() lmao)

[editline]10th October 2017[/editline]


include("config.lua")
include("functions.lua")

if CLIENT then
	function GM:OnPlayerChat( player, strText, bTeamOnly, bPlayerIsDead )
		local tab = {}

		if ( bPlayerIsDead ) then
			table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 30, 40 ) )
			table.insert( tab, "*DEAD* " )
		end

		if ( bTeamOnly ) then
			
			table.insert( tab, Color( 100,100,100 ) )
			table.insert( tab, "( TEAM ) " )
		end

		if ( IsValid( player ) ) then
			table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 90 ) )
			table.insert( tab, (player:GetNWString("RPRank") or "CPT") .." ".. (GetRegiment(player) or "Unknown") .." ".. player:Nick() )
		else
			table.insert( tab, "Console" )
		end

		table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 255 ) )
		table.insert( tab, ": "..strText )

		chat.AddText( unpack( tab ) )

		return true

	end

end

-- Functions.lua --
include("config.lua")

function GetRegiment(ply)
	for k,v in pairs( GM.Config.DefaultRegiments ) do
		if IsValid(v["id"]) then
			if ply:GetNWInt( "Regiment" ) == v["id"] then
				return tostring(v["name"])
			end
		end
	end

	return "Unknown"
end

Now this still doesnt work, in my init I have this…


AddCSLuaFile()
AddCSLuaFile("cl_init.lua")
AddCSLuaFile("functions.lua")
AddCSLuaFile("levels.lua")
AddCSLuaFile("config.lua")

include("cl_init.lua")
include("levels.lua")
include("functions.lua")
include("config.lua")

function GM:PlayerInitialSpawn( ply )

	if ply:GetNWInt( "Regiment" ) == (nil or 0) then
		ply:SetNWInt( "Regiment", GM.Config.StartingRegiment )
	end

	if ply:GetNWString( "RPRank" ) == (nil or "") then
		ply:SetNWString( "RPRank", tostring(GM.Config.Ranks[1]) )
	end

end

PrintTable( GM.Config.DefaultRegiments )

Now for some stupid reason… it really doesn’t want to work…
I have tried using this function and just simply modified the colors … it doesn’t want to work? do I have to disable something>

#8

Is this your own gamemode? You should not be overwriting the Gamemode hook if not.

#9

What Nookyava is saying is, instead of doing


function GM:OnPlayerChat
end

use hook.Add because if you use the function, it overrides what the gamemode wants it to do and makes it execute that code everytime a player chats.

#10

It seems like it is, as he says he’s making his roleplay from scratch, unless he’s completely misusing that term

#11

Nowadays it’s pretty tough to say since when some people say that, they mean they’re using DarkRP as the base.

#12

I am using Sandbox as a base, would I have to use a hook to ovveride the base function it uses?

[editline]11th October 2017[/editline]

Ontop of that currently I have not added the derive gamemode function so its currently o base

#13

You’ve made no sense.

You’re using Sandbox as a base but you’re not deriving the gamemode at all, so it’s using no base?..

What?

#14

Maybe my problem is I havent derived any gamemode lmao