Lua Scripting: Any help?.. Facepunch sure hasen't any.

Hey everyone,
Been trying to figure out how to make a custom HUD in Garrysmod. Posting threads and questions on facepunch, asking for tutorials or just how-to's doesn't seem to do me much well and hasn't in the past due to either the lack of people who know how to do this or something else..


If anyone here's good at it could you please take a look at it?

Code:

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function jail_hud() 
    local client = LocalPlayer()
    if !client:Alive() then return end
    if(client:GetActiveWeapon() == NULL or client:GetActiveWeapon() == "Camera") then return end
    draw.RoundedBox(7, 5, -5, 125, 75, Color(51, 58, 51, 175))
    draw.SimpleText(client:Health() .. " HP", "ScoreboardText", 50, -25, Color(86, 104, 86, 255), 0, 0)
    local mag_left = client:GetActiveWeapon():Clip1() // How much ammunition you have inside the current magazine
    local mag_extra = client:GetAmmoCount(client:GetActiveWeapon():GetPrimaryAmmoType()) // How much ammunition you have outside the current magazine
    local secondary_ammo = client:GetAmmoCount(client:GetActiveWeapon():GetSecondaryAmmoType())// How much ammunition you have for your secondary fire, such as the MP7's grenade launcher
end

    hook.Add("HUDPaint", "jail_hud", jail_hud)

function hidehud(name)
    for k, v in pairs{"CHudHealth", "CHudBattery", "CHudAmmo", "CHudSecondaryAmmo"} do
        if name == v then return false end
    end
end

    hook.Add("HUDShouldDraw", "hidehud", hidehud)

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It's the simplest of simple, based off of a Wiki Tutorial yet I don't know how to make a Health bar or how to slap the box to the left hand bottom corner of the screen.

Code:

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    draw.RoundedBox(7, 5, -5, 125, 75, Color(51, 58, 51, 175))
    draw.SimpleText(client:Health() .. " HP", "ScoreboardText", 50, -25, Color(86, 104, 86, 255), 0, 0)

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In both these I tried negative values for Y coords but it didn't work at all..


Please, somebody point me in the right direction! :(
-SilentWindPL

( FP Thread, Most current: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread....0#post14649900 )

Um, you can not have negative screen values.
0,0 = top left, then you add to the figures to eventually get at the bottom right.

Facepunch just made a stupid newbie questions section.
Go ask there.