Quote from CamBen on February 28, 2015, 5:44 am

Oh I didn't know you were trying to implement those into hammer entities. Well, I don't know if there is a way to do It without the vmf crashing.

Quote from FelixGriffin on February 28, 2015, 9:32 am

Edit the VMF in a text editor and remove those particular quote marks. Then Hammer should be able to work with it again.

Quote from Fracture on February 28, 2015, 11:45 am

Looks like it would be easier to delete the command and save the vmf after saving and compiling the map into the bsp, and then re-input the command before compiling in the future

Quote from Fracture on March 23, 2015, 2:47 pm

update: hammer suddenly decided that it is having none of that binding crap and is preventing me from compiling with the quotations

Quote from TeamSpen210 on March 23, 2015, 9:02 pm

Here's a workaround to allow sending quoted commands - write them in a VScript which can have escaped quotes.
Just do something like this:

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SendToConsole("bind g "ent_fire @special_relay_g Trigger"");
SendToConsole("bind b "ent_fire @special_relay_b Trigger"");


Save in scripts/vscripts, and in your map use RunScriptFile with the path to your script (from vscripts/) to run it when needed. You'll need to pack the script into your map.

Quote from josepezdj on March 24, 2015, 4:06 am

Some time ago I discovered also a vscripting way of introducing quotes. It's a bit more convoluted than TeamSpen's but this is also useful to change certain keyvalues of an entity when you must use use quotes in the output:

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commanduse <- @"""+use""";

function UseBinding()
{
   EntFire( "@clientcommand", "Command", "bind e " + commanduse, 0, 0 );
}

You'll need a point_clientcommand entity (named "@clientcommand")as well as a logic_script to execute this function.

Notice the space after the letter e in the part: "bind e " (that space is important to separate the letter e from the command "+use")

Fracture, I know you hate scripts, however this one is very simple, and an effective workaround to using quotes in Hammer.

Quote from CamBen on March 24, 2015, 10:02 am

Is there any way to make this work on the portal 1 engine? Because I don't think they have vscripts in that game but I don't know.

Quote from josepezdj on March 24, 2015, 10:53 am

Well, I have never tried. However, even though the logic_script entity doesn't seem to exist in Portal, I guess you could try to pass functions through the entities themselves (via the "Entity Scripts" property). Like for example the point_clientcommand entity, give it a go

Quote from Fracture on March 24, 2015, 2:23 pm

scripts can be pakratted, right?