timer.Simple troubles.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I am experimenting some with a timer.Simple and timer.Create.

I’ve been testing an entity that when used, activates Godmode by activator:GodEnable, removes itself then initiate a timer that when called disables the Godmode. The GodEnable works just perfectly fine, although the timer doesn’t seem to initiate.

Here is my current code in the init.lua



function ENT:Use(activator, caller) 
	activator:GodEnable()
	self.Entity:Remove() 
	timer.Simple( 5, GodDisable )
end

the function GodDisable (I have put up in shared.lua, since it didn’t work in init.lua, and it doesn’t seem to work in shared.lua either. :P) gets called after 5 seconds.



ENT.Type = "anim"
ENT.Base = "base_gmodentity"
ENT.PrintName = "Adrenaline"
ENT.Author = "Test"
ENT.Category = "Chemical"
ENT.Spawnable = true
ENT.AdminSpawnable = true

function GodDisable(ply)
	ply:GodDisable
end

I have tried numerous things, All doomed to fail.

Could anyone point me in the good direction? I’d be very thankful.

#2

Have to add the player entity.
This should work.
[lua]
timer.Simple( 5, GodDisable, activator )
[/lua]

#3

Doesn’t seem to work. The entity spawns, but it can’t be used.

#4

[lua]timer.Simple( 5, function(ply) ply:GodDisable(true) end )[/lua]

#5

Ok, just do this, it should work.

[lua]
function ENT:Use( activator, caller )
if ( activator:IsPlayer() ) then
activator:GodEnable();
timer.Simple( 5, function() activator:GodDisable() end, activator );
self.Entity:Remove();
end;
end;
[/lua]

#6

Thank you Ronon Dex, and Chewgum for helping me out. It’s working now. :slight_smile:

#7

You don’t need to write self.Entity just self works now.