Territories

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hello,

I know I am a new player and I will likely be looked upon as just a useless Leecher to the Community, but I am afraid I am going to ask anyway.

I am currently looking for a way to have a GUI in the top left section of the screen (anywhere in all honesty) that will show territories which can be marked out in some way. For example, someone walks into a Bank, then it switches to “Government Territory”, or when someone is out in the middle of the road it says “Neutral”. This is a cosmetic thing I am searching for on the server and I was hoping someone could show me how to do it, or even link me to a GitHub which may hold the Addon.

Regards.

#2
#3

Since you want to draw stuff on the screen, you’d have to use the

GM:HUDPaint hook (if you don’t know what a hook is, read this). In that hook you can draw text using

draw.SimpleText.

As for the logic to determine in which territory you are, it’s a bit trickier. You want to loop through a table of tables of coordinates and see if your current position is in any of the boxes (

Vector:WithinAABox).

Once that’s done displaying the territory name becomes trivial because all you have to do is change a variable depending on the current territory and draw different texts accordingly.

As a reference this is how I would structure my territories table.

[lua]
local territories = {
{type = “Government”, start = Vector(0, 0, 0), endpos = Vector(100, 100, 100)},
{type = “Criminal”, start = Vector(200, 200, 200), endpos = Vector(400, 400, 400)},
}
[/lua]

You wouldn’t need to make Neutral territories; for a territory to be neutral, you simply don’t have to be inside one.

I don’t think dropping links without saying anything helps. I don’t believe it’s the first time you’ve done this either. It would help if you read the thread because making a DFrame doesn’t help in this case.

#4

Cheers, but how could I take that and mark it out so it changes when people dwell into certain areas?

[editline]19th November 2017[/editline]

So after doing some fat research and learning how to do it, then actually making it. Would it have to go into the addon folder, or into the lua/autorun/server. (Sorry for the stupid question)

#5

You can either make it an add-on or put it in lua/autorun. lua/autorun/server is for scripts that run only on the server, but since you want to make something GUI related you know it has to be clientside.

#6

With all of the information you have given me, would I have to make it all one big lua file then place it into the clientside of things on the server. I am pretty dumb but I would very much like to learn.

#7

If you want to put it on your server, then yeah you can make it in one big .lua file. You would place that file in the server’s lua/autorun/ folder and add this at the beginning of the file so clients can download it:

[lua]
AddCSLuaFile()
[/lua]