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Warning:Setting this in round based games will cause an entity to not respawn on round restart because entities are killed when round ends.
Important:Don't use in 
Left 4 Dead series as the transition works differently and globalname is not used in this manner.
Placement Tip:This is important when wanting to transition brush entities as brush models are saved within a map file and is the reason model is one of the properties that isn't transferred.
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{{warning|Setting this in round based games will cause an entity to not respawn on round restart because entities are killed when round ends.}} | {{warning|Setting this in round based games will cause an entity to not respawn on round restart because entities are killed when round ends.}} | ||
{{important|Don't use in {{l4ds|4}} as the transition works differently and globalname is not used in this manner.}} | {{important|Don't use in {{l4ds|4}} as the transition works differently and globalname is not used in this manner.}} | ||
{{PlacementTip|This is important when wanting to transition brush entities as brush models are saved within a map file and is the reason model is one of the properties that isn't transferred.}} | {{PlacementTip|This is important when wanting to transition brush entities as [[bmodel|brush models]] are saved within a map file and is the reason model is one of the properties that isn't transferred.}} | ||
Other ways to ensure no duplicate (logically same) entities between transition is properly utilizing {{ent|logic_auto}} outputs like <kbd>OnNewGame</kbd>, <kbd>OnMapTransition</kbd>. | Other ways to ensure no duplicate (logically same) entities between transition is properly utilizing {{ent|logic_auto}} outputs like <kbd>OnNewGame</kbd>, <kbd>OnMapTransition</kbd>. | ||
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globalname is a keyvalue available in all 
Source games. It's a name to designate two entities in different maps as being logically the same entity. When player transitions from map A to B the entity in map B with matching globalname will get most of its properties from entity that was in map A like origin, angles, color etc. (model for example is not transferred). If the entity was killed in map A it will not spawn in map B.
Warning:Setting this in round based games will cause an entity to not respawn on round restart because entities are killed when round ends.Important:Don't use in Left 4 Dead series as the transition works differently and globalname is not used in this manner.Placement Tip:This is important when wanting to transition brush entities as brush models are saved within a map file and is the reason model is one of the properties that isn't transferred.Other ways to ensure no duplicate (logically same) entities between transition is properly utilizing logic_auto outputs like OnNewGame, OnMapTransition.
Examples
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