Cam Controller Not working

[Tyler13700]

I have tried downloading wiremod via SVN, ive downloaded wire extras via svn, And no luck on making camera controllers work. If you want the exact error it spams me about 10 times a second, here it is:

[Wiremod] lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:482: bad argument #2 to '__mul' (number expected, got function)
  1. __mul - [C]:-1
   2. UpdateOutputs - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:482
    3. unknown - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:573

And upon leaving while in a cam controller linked seat, I get this message:

[Wiremod] lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:385: bad argument #1 to 'WriteFloat' (number expected, got function)
  1. WriteFloat - [C]:-1
   2. SendPositions - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:385
    3. SyncSettings - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:407
     4. DisableCam - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:616
      5. ClearEntities - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:846
       6. unknown - lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:601

Wire error (Entity [84][gmod_wire_cameracontroller]):
lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:385: bad argument #1 to 'WriteFloat' (number expected, got function)
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'WriteFloat'
	lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:385: in function 'SendPositions'
	lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:407: in function 'SyncSettings'
	lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:616: in function 'DisableCam'
	lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:771: in function <lua/entities/gmod_wire_cameracontroller.lua:768>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'
	lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:62: in function 'TriggerInput'
	lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:567: in function 'Wire_Unlink'
	lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:715: in function 'Link_Clear'
	lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:405: in function 'ClearPorts'
	lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:441: in function 'Remove'
	lua/entities/base_wire_entity.lua:356: in function <lua/entities/base_wire_entity.lua:355>

[Divran]

This error gets reported to us about once a month. It's caused by having a shit addon installed that breaks every other addon that uses a variable called "Distance".

Write this in your console to find out which addon it is:
lua_run PrintTable(debug.getinfo(Player(1):GetEyeTraceNoCursor().Entity.Distance))
Replace the number "1" until "Player(1)" is equal to yourself.
Write this while aiming at any cam controller that is giving you the error.
This will give you lots of information about the function that this shit addon creates, including exactly where the function is created. This will give you the file path to the addon. Once you have it, simply uninstall the addon, and also go tell the addon author to fix his bad code.

[Tyler13700]

I did it while looking at a cam controller, I got this message

[ERROR] lua_run:1: attempt to call method 'GetEyeTraceNoCursor' (a nil value)
  1. unknown - lua_run:1

Then about 10 seconds later, I got this message:

[TFA Base] lua/tfa/modules/tfa_backend.lua:19: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
  1. XML_GetMembers - lua/tfa/modules/tfa_backend.lua:19
   2. onsuccess - lua/tfa/modules/tfa_backend.lua:51
    3. unknown - lua/includes/modules/http.lua:34

I'm not sure if this means TFA has something to do with it, But I'm gonna try uninstalling anything TFA in my addons.

[bigdogmat]

You probably tried to run it on a NULL entity then. Type status into console, see what number is in the userid column next to your name, plug that number into the Player function then run it,

e.g. if it says 2 next to my name, I'd put this in console,

lua_run PrintTable(debug.getinfo(Player(2):GetEyeTraceNoCursor().Entity.Distance))

[Tyler13700]

Thanks, Heres what I got...

> PrintTable(debug.getinfo(Player(3):GetEyeTraceNoCursor().Entity.Distance))...
currentline	=	-1
func	=	function: 0x42c19090
isvararg	=	false
lastlinedefined	=	161
linedefined	=	156
namewhat	=	
nparams	=	2
nups	=	0
short_src	=	lua/autorun/slvbase/shared/slvbase_sh_meta.lua
source	=	@lua/autorun/slvbase/shared/slvbase_sh_meta.lua
what	=	Lua

[Tyler13700]

I cant find anything to do with slvbase

[Divran]

That FTA error looks completely unrelated. I'd forgotten what the name of the offending addon was, but now that you got the correct file path, I remember that "slvbase" is the one. Just get rid of that and problem solved.

[Pharap]

In case anyone else ever runs into this problem again (as I have), one of the known offending mods is Skyrim SNPCs.