glua questions.

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

i was wondering how to do these things, it would expand my possibilitys for glua a lot.

1: How do i store a number in a string and then be able to change and extract that value?

2: What is the proper glua folder structure (what should go in autorun, what should not, etc.)

3: How do i make something like chat or console commands, what im wondering is how do i make something like !kill (username) and it kills the target, i cant figure out how to tell the script that whatever they enter is htis script, and then kill whatever is in the string.

tanks!

[Kobuchizawa *Suspended*]

Tanks

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

Originally posted by Eisotopius❤可愛い:

Tanks

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[Mashiro KILL THEM ALL]

Oh boy, don't ask questions like this here. Especially when you can research them and that's what your supposed to do first. If you must, hire a teacher since learning that will take a lot longer than a simple post. Or ask the facepunch website, and or other GMod deving communties. I doubt anyone can help you here with GLua unless a mod has time to answer this or maybe another coder.

[Zak]

1. Local number = 666 print(number)
2. To begin with just myaddon/lua/autorun and throw your Lua files in there
3. Console commands - https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/concommand/Add
Chat commands - https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/PlayerSay

Checkout Code Blue on YouTube as he covers the basics well
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpuE-Qjn4EWqX-VJ_l7pbw

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

Originally posted by Hackcraft:

1. Local number = 666 print(number)
2. To begin with just myaddon/lua/autorun and throw your Lua files in there
3. Console commands - https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/concommand/Add
Chat commands - https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/PlayerSay

Checkout Code Blue on YouTube as he covers the basics well
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpuE-Qjn4EWqX-VJ_l7pbw

1: aliright good, but how do i change that number, like SetValue or something
2: I tried putting them in there, but nothing has worked from it. i tried putting one funtion script in there that prints your ip in the server console when you respawn, but i cant get it to work. tried /lua, tried /lua/autorun and tried /lua/autorun/server
3:Ive seen the chat command in code blues tutorials and on the wiki, but how can i make a command that targets a player. i tried extracting ulx to look for chat commands code, but i couldnt find it
4: i actuly learned glua in one night while working on a map from that guy, he does make amazing tutorials.

i tried to make one in console too, but what im wondering is how do i tell the game that !kill (string) means kill whatever they typed in the string

i do appreciate the help though!

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

now that i go balls deep into thinking, can i do this?

 hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text ) -- Make the chat message entirely lowercase
	if ( text == "!kill" ( ply ) ) then
		ply:Kill()
		return ""
	end
end )	

i dont think this would work. sounded better in my head, but maybe

[Zak]

 hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text ) -- Make the chat message entirely lowercase
	if ( text == "!kill" ) then
		ply:Kill()
		return ""
	end
end )	

-- It's really not hard to scroll down in the wiki to see examples like the one below.

concommand.Add( "killyourself", function( ply, cmd, args )
	ply:Kill()
	print( "You killed yourself!" )
end )

concommand.Add( "retrieveplayers", function()
	for _, ply in ipairs( player.GetAll() ) do
		print( ply:Nick() .. ", " .. ply:SteamID() .. "\n" )
	end
end )

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

what im looking to do is to be able to target a player, like i said this would open up a lot for me, i already asked this and the guy said to use the ulx base. i couldnt find the commands, nor is it meant to be a base, from what i can see

[Zak]

Target which player?
The calling player? If so I already showed you how to do that in my above post.

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

Originally posted by Hackcraft:

Target which player?
The calling player? If so I already showed you how to do that in my above post.

not the player who ran the command, the one the command specifies, like !kill (username). i want it to kill the person you put after !kill

[Zak]

Untested but something like this should work.

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text )	-- Lowercase
	if string.Left(text,5) == "!kill" then	-- if !kill
		local name = string.lower(string.Right( text, #text-5 ))	-- Lowercase
		if name == nil then return "" ply:ChatPrint("Please enter a name: !kill (name)") end -- Check they entered a name
		for k, v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do -- Loop through each player
			if string.find(string.lower(v:Nick()), name, 1, true) then -- if what you typed is in their name
				v:Kill() -- Kill them
				ply:ChatPrint("Killed " .. v:Nick())
			end
		end
		return "" -- don't return the command to chat.
	end
end )	

[dim]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4VrB9E6vnw

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

Originally posted by Hackcraft:

Untested but something like this should work.

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text )	-- Lowercase
	if string.Left(text,5) == "!kill" then	-- if !kill
		local name = string.lower(string.Right( text, #text-5 ))	-- Lowercase
		if name == nil then return "" ply:ChatPrint("Please enter a name: !kill (name)") end -- Check they entered a name
		for k, v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do -- Loop through each player
			if string.find(string.lower(v:Nick()), name, 1, true) then -- if what you typed is in their name
				v:Kill() -- Kill them
				ply:ChatPrint("Killed " .. v:Nick())
			end
		end
		return "" -- don't return the command to chat.
	end
end )	

ill go test it now, thank you! ill add you as a creator if i can get this to work

EDIT:


[ERROR] lua/uwot.lua:5: 'end' expected near 'ply'

ill fix that

another edit

few more errors, ez fix

this one is odd, [ERROR] lua/uwot.lua:14: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 1) near 'end'

but line one has no end. maybe its refrencing the end to close line 1?

[Zak]

Oh sorry, I put the return in the wrong place on line 5!

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text )	-- Lowercase
	if string.Left(text,5) == "!kill" then	-- if !kill
		local name = string.lower(string.Right( text, #text-5 ))	-- Lowercase
		if name == nil then ply:ChatPrint("Please enter a name: !kill (name)") return "" end -- Check they entered a name
		for k, v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do -- Loop through each player
			if string.find(string.lower(v:Nick()), name, 1, true) then -- if what you typed is in their name
				v:Kill() -- Kill them
				ply:ChatPrint("Killed " .. v:Nick())
			end
		end
		return "" -- don't return the command to chat.
	end
end )	

[Grandpa Gropes-A-Lot]

Originally posted by Hackcraft:

Oh sorry, I put the return in the wrong place on line 5!

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Killurself", function( ply, text, public )
	text = string.lower( text )	-- Lowercase
	if string.Left(text,5) == "!kill" then	-- if !kill
		local name = string.lower(string.Right( text, #text-5 ))	-- Lowercase
		if name == nil then ply:ChatPrint("Please enter a name: !kill (name)") return "" end -- Check they entered a name
		for k, v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do -- Loop through each player
			if string.find(string.lower(v:Nick()), name, 1, true) then -- if what you typed is in their name
				v:Kill() -- Kill them
				ply:ChatPrint("Killed " .. v:Nick())
			end
		end
		return "" -- don't return the command to chat.
	end
end )	

its not killing me (singleplayer) it does hide it from chat, but nothing is said if i dont enter a name.