Lua Halo Glow Help

[JamminR]

perhaps a new board can be made for developers who complete scripts and have a place to share them

New board? We already have two.
Releases, if you feel it's release quality.
And, aptly, Developer's corner, if it might not be 100% release, but useful in a larger project or collection.
Many have posted useful stuff in the corner. A few even turned the useful stuff into releases.

[ChaosWolf]

In the developers corner it looks as though you have to sort through development and releases, that's all I meant.

[ChaosWolf]

hey Avoid, I remember you saying something about making it ignore players. just a reminder, perhaps you can help me with that since you've seen the bug first hand.

[JamminR]

making it ignore players

ent:IsPlayer()

[RainbowHG]

Apologies for being a filthy necro.

The script that's available to download still targets players (on the props team).

I see a user has entered ent:IsPlayer() but I have no idea where to put this in the code. If someone could help that'd be great.

If I need to be punished for being a necro, can you do it after someone helps? :x

[JamminR]

Line 16 of the script already seems to try to avoid adding the halo.

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if IsValid(tr.Entity) and !tr.Entity:IsPlayer() then You might try changing it to

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if IsValid(tr.Entity) and not IsPlayer(tr.Entity) then

[RainbowHG]

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[ERROR] lua/autorun/cl_halo.lua:16: attempt to call global 'IsPlayer' (a nil value)
  1. fn - lua/autorun/cl_halo.lua:16
   2. Run - addons/ulib/lua/ulib/shared/hook.lua:109
    3. fn - lua/includes/modules/halo.lua:148
     4. unknown - addons/ulib/lua/ulib/shared/hook.lua:109


Sadly that didn't work.

I've tried changing the trace.filter and adding a if team == but nothing seems to work..

The halo is literally stuck around the player and not any prop.

Here's the code I have

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function Halos()
local tr = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTraceNoCursor()
local trace = {}
trace.start = tr.StartPos
trace.endpos = trace.start + LocalPlayer():GetAimVector() * 1000
trace.filter = self
trace.mask = MASK_SHOT

if IsValid(tr.Entity) and !tr.Entity:IsPlayer() then
if tr.HitPos:Distance(tr.StartPos) < 500 then -- How Close/Far do you want entities to glow?
local col = Color(255, 255, 0) -- Change the Color here
halo.Add({tr.Entity}, col, 2, 2, 2, true, true)



end
end

end
 
hook.Add( "PreDrawHalos", "DrawHalos", Halos )


As you can see the filter is trying to filter out the player but it doesn't seem to work

Here is the trace on the props team


Yet strangly....Here is the trace when a player is a hunter


So it works on the wrong team.

[Timmy]

As you can see the filter is trying to filter out the player but it doesn't seem to work

1. You are creating a Trace Structure, but you never use it to perform a trace.

Tip: Use a trace function like util.TraceLine to perform the trace.

2. Your filter needs a little bit of tweaking. You don't need to filter a player, but a gamemode prop entity.

Usually, filtering the player entity would suffice, but not in this case. When you're a prop, you're looking directly at a gamemode prop entity, not at a player entity.

I don’t know which Prop Hunt version you are running. There are so many. It looks like most of them have some way to get the prop entity on the client-side. You will have to look at the gamemode source code to figure out how you can get the prop entity.

For example, in Wolvin's Prop Hunt: Enhanced, there's a Player:GetPlayerPropEntity() function.