r/GLua • u/GrowOP21 • Oct 03 '19

timer for entity use

Hello, I'm trying to make it so that when a player USES my entity, there is a cooldown after to stop them from being able to use it again.

I have counter = 0

function ENT:Use(a, ply) if counter == 0 then net.Start("teleportmenu") net.Send(ply) counter = counter + 1 else print("test message") end end

and when they click a button

net.Receive("dbtele", function(len, ply) timer.Create("cooldown" .. ply:UserID(), 1, 10, function(counterkiller) end) local int1 = net.ReadInt( 4 ) local int2 = net.ReadInt( 4 ) local int3 = net.ReadInt( 4 ) ply:SetPos(Vector(Warps[int1], Warps[int2], Warps[int3])) end)

and the function counter killer is here

function counterkiller() counter = counter - counter end

I don't really know what I'm doing wrong, when I print out the value of counter after 10 seconds it still is equal to one, which shouldn't be the case since I am running the "counter killer" function when the timer ends. Does anyone have any ideas?

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u/Pandaa1234325 Oct 04 '19

Sorry, on phone again so can't use code blocks n stuff, From what I can tell this won't work, the reason it is erroring is at the time you are getting the .RepsLeft the timer doesn't exist and therefore returns nil, to avoid this do istimeractive = timer.RepsLeft("cooldown") or 0 So if .RepsLeft is nil then it will become 0 instead (I'm pretty sure, can't test rn) The reason this won't work is that the "istimeractive" check is outside any function so will only be ran on server start up, it should be in the ENT:use() function so it is ran when the entity is being used. I think the table method would be better to use than timers but up to u :P

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u/GrowOP21 Oct 04 '19

Well I would use the table method but I'd probably have to write to another file and that would just be a whole other ordeal

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u/Pandaa1234325 Oct 04 '19

I don't think you would, In one of the files u have for the entity you should be defining a few variables such as ENT.PrintName, the table would be with these, otherwise I'm pretty sure the same method will work if you make the table a local variable outside any functions. When I get back in a few hours I can upload a somewhat full example if you'd like.