halo shenanigans

[talmera]

I'm having this weird problem when trying to draw halos

Code: Lua

1. hook.Add( "PreDrawHalos", "Orb Halos", function()
2.                
3.                 halo.Add( ents.FindByClass( 'tg_orb' ) , TCC_WHITE, 1.5, 1.5, 1, true, false )
4.         end )

the above code works fine but as soon as i try to substitute ents.FindByClass like so

Code: Lua

1. hook.Add( "PreDrawHalos", "Orb Halos", function()
2.                
3.                 halo.Add( ents.FindByName( 'NormalOrb' ) , TCC_WHITE, 1.5, 1.5, 1, true, false )
4.         end )

it fails to find anything, I know for a fact i have successfully set the names of the orbs as (big thanks to Stickly) I am using it to make a rainbow orb rotate it's colours. Any ideas as to why it doesn't like finding by names in this hook?

[bender180]

i know halo expert or lua expert for that matter but shouldn't the hooks 2nd value be different on each of them?

[Decicus]

i know halo expert or lua expert for that matter but shouldn't the hooks 2nd value be different on each of them?

I don't think that matters in this case, as since I understood it, he's replacing a part of the function and not running two of them.

[talmera]

Yea sorry this is a replacement not them being run simultaneously I originally had all orbs with the white halo but I want to give a more unique halo to different categories and I have decided the easiest way to do that is through ent.SetName(). ents.FindByName() works perfectly fine within the think hook but has trouble in PreDrawHalos and I don't know why XD