How to add Advanced Dupe Support?

[snakesvx]

Hi

I'm working on a new RD (since TAD2020 seems absent) and well I need to know how to add Advanced Dupe support to it.

What functions do I need to call?
What Implementations do I need to add?

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[Critical_Impact]

Hi

I'm working on a new RD (since TAD2020 seems absent) and well I need to know how to add Advanced Dupe support to it.

What functions do I need to call?
What Implementations do I need to add?

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I'm no LUA expert, I did modify Fly by Wire to support Advanced Dupe and it just required this at the bottom of the entities init.lua

function ENT:OnRemove()
    Wire_Remove(self.Entity)
end

function ENT:OnRestore()
    Wire_Restored(self.Entity)
end

function ENT:BuildDupeInfo()
    return WireLib.BuildDupeInfo(self.Entity)
end

function ENT:ApplyDupeInfo(ply, ent, info, GetEntByID)
    WireLib.ApplyDupeInfo( ply, ent, info, GetEntByID )
end

function ENT:PreEntityCopy()
    //build the DupeInfo table and save it as an entity mod
    local DupeInfo = self:BuildDupeInfo()
    if(DupeInfo) then
        duplicator.StoreEntityModifier(self.Entity,"WireDupeInfo",DupeInfo)
    end
end

function ENT:PostEntityPaste(Player,Ent,CreatedEntities)
    //apply the DupeInfo
    if(Ent.EntityMods and Ent.EntityMods.WireDupeInfo) then
        Ent:ApplyDupeInfo(Player, Ent, Ent.EntityMods.WireDupeInfo, function(id) return CreatedEntities[id] end)
    end
end

[Moyer]

All I had to do for my PID was this:

if (SERVER) then
	/* Makes a PID loop */
	function MakeWirePID(pl, Model, Pos, Ang, p, i, d, dcut, ilim, limit, nocollide, Vel, aVel, frozen)
		local ent = ents.Create("gmod_wire_pid")
		ent:SetAngles(Ang)
		ent:SetPos(Pos)
		ent:SetModel(Model)
		ent:Spawn()
		ent:SetupGains(p, i, d, dcut, ilim, limit)
		ent:SetPlayer(pl)
		return ent
	end
	
	/* Register us for duplicator compatibility */
	duplicator.RegisterEntityClass("gmod_wire_pid", MakeWirePID, "Model", "Pos", "Ang", "p", "i", "d", "dcut", "ilim", "limit", "nocollide", "Vel", "aVel", "frozen")
end

I have that in the STool lua, took the idea after checking out how the other wire tools add dup support. It seems that you make a function that handles the creation of the entity and register it with the duplicator. I just call the function in LeftClick() with the appropriate variables and everything works out.

[Free Fall]

I have a question to Adv. Dupe. support in entities too:

How do i make entities paste frozen, if they were frozen before duping?

always if i paste my self-coded things, they fall to ground, even if they were freeze before duping. And this is pretty bad for stability of things.


So, has this to be done in the "ENT:ApplyDupeInfo" function or in the "duplicator.RegisterEntityClass" Line, or even somewhere else, nobody knows?

[IEF015]

I THINK that where you put the ENT:ApplyDupeInfo and the duplicator.RegisterEntityClass, you just put "frozen".

[Free Fall]

You mean like

duplicator.RegisterEntityClass("gmod_wire_ramcardreader", MakeWireRamCardReader, "Pos", "Ang", "frozen")

?

I had this before, but I didn't have the effect I wanted. Is this not all I need, or wrong place?

[IEF015]

I found this:

    duplicator.RegisterEntityClass("gmod_wire_colorer", MakeWireColorer, "Pos", "outColor", "Range", "Model", "Ang", "Vel", "aVel", "frozen")

...inside lua/weapons/gmod_tools/stools/wire_colorer.lua

I found nothing else that calls "frozen" anywhere in the script, even in the entities folder.

[Battle Bott]

How do you get inputs and outputs to save correctly?
My chip has dynamic ones, so they have to save with the chip. They are first created by parsing a string, and I made a function that does that correctly.

But when you dupe it, it breaks. So far I have gotten it to pass the old table to the new function, but that still has all of the old entities.

I have traced the path of inputs and outputs in the expression chip, but I got lost in the middle where it hits GateInputs.

How do you transfer Inputs and Outputs through the duplicator? I'm going to try to just AdjustOutputs on the old tables and see if that works, but nothing I seem to do can maintain the old links.