Quote from Gemarakup on September 9, 2014, 9:35 am

I don't know. The only thing I know is that you can just use multiple names and scripts.

Quote from josepezdj on September 9, 2014, 9:36 am

I just reminded one script I recently read which opens nearby (to the player) linked_doors. The function used is "FindByClassnameWithin()" though, but it might help you out to get your goal anyways:

open_nearby_portal_linked_doors.nut
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// Execute this script from the console to open nearby prop_portal_linked_doors.
// Intended to be used to traverse maps in order without noclipping to find the next linked map.

ent <- null
if ( ent = Entities.FindByClassnameWithin( ent, "prop_linked_portal_door", player.GetOrigin(), 256 ) )
{
   EntFire( ent.GetName(), "Open", "", 0.0, null );
}

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The usage of that function makes me think the rest ones are also actually functional....

Quote from Goldenknighttim on September 9, 2014, 9:38 am

Forgot the "Entities." I got it working now. Don't worry about the findbyclassnamenearest questions, but the glitch with the '*' still confuses me, so if you understand what was happening there, some clearification would still be nice.

Quote from FelixGriffin on September 9, 2014, 10:07 am

AFAIK wildcard matching in Source is fairly weak: a star literally means something like "if it matches up to this point, say it was a valid match". So you can only use it meaningfully at the end of the name.

If you are having fixup difficulties, you can put the instance inside another instance, and set the inner func_instance's fixup mode to "none".

Quote from josepezdj on September 9, 2014, 10:27 am

I also reminded that HMW wrote a script using the FindByClassnameNearest() function (I knew I had already seen it before :p):

sticky_panels.nut
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//
//                           hmw/sticky_panels.nut
//  ________________________________________________________________________
//
//  Script to attach entities to a model's attachment points by proximity,
//  rather than by name.
//
//  (Example: attach a func_brush surface tile to an animated panel.)
//
//  When the model finishes its first animation (to set the bind pose),
//  it will look for an entity of class find_class within search_radius
//  or less from attachment attach_name, and send a "SetParent" signal,
//  followed by "SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset".
//
//  Intended for use by the "entity scripts" attribute.
//
//  Entities may modify the default values for find_class, attach_name
//  and search_radius.
//  ________________________________________________________________________

find_class <- "func_brush";
attach_name <- "panel_attach";
search_radius <- 2;

function attach_item()
{
    local attachment = self.LookupAttachment(attach_name);
    local search_origin = self.GetAttachmentOrigin(attachment);
    attached_part <- Entities.FindByClassnameNearest(
        find_class, search_origin, search_radius);

    if(attached_part != null) {
        EntFireByHandle(attached_part, "SetParent",
                        self.GetName(), 0, null, null);
        EntFireByHandle(attached_part, "SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset",
                        attach_name, 0, null, null);
    };
};

EntFireByHandle(self, "AddOutput",
                "OnAnimationDone !self:RunScriptCode:attach_item():0:1",
                0, null, null);

// vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab nowrap filetype=squirrel:


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Maybe that one could help you out a bit more.

I used the asterisk as wildcard for some I/O in Hammer in the past succesfully... however, you might be having an issue with "finding the nearest" while saying "all entities starting by Rev_Red_Laser_end" (which could be not meaning any), could that be?

Quote from Goldenknighttim on September 9, 2014, 12:03 pm

Thanks for the help guys.

Quote from TeamSpen210 on September 9, 2014, 4:38 pm

One thing you could do instead is just self.GetName(), then do some string editing to find out what the user named your instance and then get a handle to the other entities.

Quote from greykarel on May 2, 2015, 2:05 pm

EDIT.

greykarel wrote:

blah-blah-blah about some problem with a script

I don't now whay was wrong before but today it works fine.