Zip Ties, Un-Tie Players on Death

Garry's Mod coding
#1

So earlier I asked for assistance in altering my Zip Ties, now I have noticed another issue. Players who are killed while zip-tied remain zip-tied into the next life. They can run full speed and switch weapons and what not, but some actions, such as picking up weapons are restricted. I was curious how I would go about making it so the script would end/set the player un-tied if they were to die. Here is the code involved:

Would this function do it?



--- Again I have very limited LUA knowledge and even scraping this up took me a good 15 minutes to figure out something that actually sounded remotely right.
function meta:DeadPlayer
if  ply.nextspawn and Entity:IsTied() then
return self.TiedUp = false
end
#2

Hook into PlayerDeath and then check if they’re tied, and if so, un-tie them.

#3 


hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "untieDeath", function(p)
   if (p:IsTied()) then
      p:UntiePlayer(p);
   end
end);

Also a personal note here, your function names are a bit silly and so is the layout of your function declarations.



target:TieUpPlayer(player_tying_me_up)

Is silly. It should either be:



target:TieUp(player_tying_me_up)

Or:



player_tying_me_up:TieUpPlayer(target)

But its just a personal preference. Also you might want to look into GM:FindUseEntity or GM:PlayerUse for your “E to tie” thingy.

#4

I am stupid, if I add this to the LUA file, it is not shared.lua, would it require a map change to take effect?

#5

There are a few ways of reloading scripts but for simplicity I think you should restart the server.

#6

That did not work :confused:

#7

Care to be a little more specific?

#8

Players remain tied on respawn.

#9

Ok I’v amended the code. Try this:



hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "untieDeath", function(p)
   print("Player has died.");
   if (p:IsTied()) then
      print("Player is tied... untying");
      p:UntiePlayer(p);
   end
end);

Tell us what it prints in the console.

#10

Nothing is printed in console. Does this function need to go in lua/autorun/server? Currently I have it in the code with the other stuff. http://puu.sh/auaSt/7dc964b1e1.png

#11

Ye sorry, PlayerDeath is a server-side hook.

#12

So could I put it in an if (SERVER) then and be fine?

#13

Yes as long as the script is also being run on the server.

#14 


if (SERVER) then
hook.Add("PlayerDeath", "untieDeath", function(p)
   print("Player has died.");
   if (p:IsTied()) then
      print("Player is tied... untying");
      p:UntiePlayer(p);
   end
end);
end

Still not functioning and nothing printing in console. The file is being used on the server as well.

#15

Where is the file located? The hook should be called whenever someone dies and if it isnt, its probably not being run.

#16

I did it for him. The UntiePlayer function had EVERYTHING in a timer, so it’s useless when you want to untie a player immediately.

I just added a PlayerDeath hook with the relevant code to untie the player (set the var to false)

The code was put in a file called “arrest.lua”, which is serverside.

#17

Nicely done.