Comp entity finder

comp_entity_finder
Type	Internal Point entity
Engine	Source
Availability	TeamSpen's Hammer Addons

comp_entity_finder is an e1 available in Portal 2: Community Edition. It is also available in any game with TeamSpen's Hammer Addons installed. It finds the closest entity of a given type, then outputs various values depending on the keyvalues set.

KeyValues

Targetname ([todo internal name (i)]) <string>

Fake targetname, used to determine how containing instances are configured.

Target Classname ([todo internal name (i)]) <string>

Classnames of the entity to find. Multiple classnames can be specified seperated by spaces.

Search Radius ([todo internal name (i)]) <float>

Radius to search inside, or 0 for infinite.

Search Field Of View ([todo internal name (i)]) <float>

The found entity must be within this many degrees of the direction of the finder.

Search Direction ([todo internal name (i)]) <angle>

If Search FOV is used, the direction to compare to.

Reference Position ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

If set, look for entities close to this entity instead of the comp_entity_finder.

Search Blacklist ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

If set, ignore entities matching this name.

Teleport Target To Me ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

Move the found entity to the location of this entity or that of the reference.

• 0: No
• 1: Yes

Make Target Unique ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

Append a numeric suffix to the target's name to make it unique.

• 0: No
• 1: Yes

(1, 2, 3, 4) - Mode ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

The (first, second, third, fourth) modification to perform. For Replace Outputs, outputs sent to a !name specified in Destination will be switched to point to the found entity.

Note:Additional Keyvalues of these types can be added with SmartEdit off.

• none: None
• const2target: Constant -> Target Ent KV
• const2known: Constant -> Known Ent KV
• known2target: Known Ent KV -> Target Ent KV
• target2known: Target Ent KV -> Known Ent KV
• replacetarget: Replace Outputs

(1, 2, 3, 4) - Known Entity ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

The known entity to access.

(1, 2, 3, 4) - Source ([todo internal name (i)]) <string>

Constant value to use or keyvalue name to read from.

(1, 2, 3, 4) - Destination ([todo internal name (i)]) <string>

Keyvalue name to write to or !special name to replace.

Outputs

OutName

Needed to allow Hammer to add outputs to this.

See Also

• TeamSpen's Hammer Addons