Coding help

[A55hat]

Hey guys, me again working on the same thing after stopping for a while and I was wanting to taking it a step further and making it work without changing the actual base files. How would i change the health status eg. "Healthy" "Wounded" "Hurt" etc. without screwing with the util.lua file?

Here is how it looks in the util.lua file at the moment. Please try to help me, thank you.

local function HealthToString(health)
  if makeup = 0 or makeup = nil then
		if health > 90 then
			return "Healthy", healthcolors.healthy
		elseif health > 70 then
			return "Hurt", healthcolors.hurt
		elseif health > 45 then
			return "Wounded", healthcolors.wounded
		elseif health > 20 then
			return "Badly Wounded", healthcolors.badwound
		else
			return "Near Death", healthcolors.death
		end
	elseif makeup = 100 then
		return "Healthy", healthcolors.healthy
	elseif makeup = 80 then
		return "Hurt", healthcolors.hurt
	elseif makeup = 69 then
		return "Wounded", healthcolors.wounded
	elseif makeup = 44 then
		return "Badly Wounded", healthcolors.badwound
	elseif makeup = 19 then
		return "Near Death", healthcolors.death
  end
end

[Mr. Gash]

You don't.

[Bad King Urgrain]

One simple option is replacing the function:

-- In an AddCSLua'd client script...

local function MyHealthToString(health)
   -- code here
end

local function ReplaceHealthToString()
   util.HealthToString = MyHealthToString
end
hook.Add("Initialize", "bla", ReplaceHealthToString)

Of course, your pasted code will error because it is using "if x = y" instead of "if x == y".

[A55hat]

One simple option is replacing the function:

-- In an AddCSLua'd client script...

local function MyHealthToString(health)
   -- code here
end

local function ReplaceHealthToString()
   util.HealthToString = MyHealthToString
end
hook.Add("Initialize", "bla", ReplaceHealthToString)

Of course, your pasted code will error because it is using "if x = y" instead of "if x == y".

Thank you for your help and if x = y is how it initialy was in the util file but i guess ur rite. Also being a new coder, I dont know what AddCSLua is or where to put the changed code. Sorry for being such a noob :P

[Manmax75]

Your lucky that BKU helped you. AddCSLua tells the server to download a file to the client, in otherwords, this script is a clientside script. For more information consult the gmod wiki.

For now, I will give you a direct link outlining the purpose and function of AddCSLua()

http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.AddCSLuaFile