Sprinkle

The Sprinkle Tool allows for quick placement of pre-defined entities onto your map. The Sprinkle Tool requires a custom script in order for it to place entities.

To open the Sprinkle Tool:

1. Choose Sprinkle... from the Tools Menu or use the shortcut CTRL+ALT+S to open the Entity Sprinkle dialog.

Type

Types are script files that are used to define what should be placed around the map. They're located at game abbreviation/scripts/hammer/sprinkle.

Mode

This lets you select how the tool will act when placing entities. There are four options:

• Additive - Adds entities in the Radius and will overwrite any existing entities in the Radius.
• Subtractive - Removes entities in the Radius.
• Replace - Replaces all entities in the Radius, acts like Additive and Subtractive.
• Overwrite - Overwrite entities in the Radius, acts like Additive but only on already existing entities.

Note:The tool will not replace any existing entities, only entities created by the Sprinkle Tool.

Adding Types

To add types to the tool, you'll need to make a Sprinkle script. All Sprinkle scripts are located at game abbreviation/scripts/hammer/sprinkle, which usually doesn't exist by default.

A script file can be named anything, along as it ends with the .txt file extension.

"Agave Plants" //This is what shows up in Type
{
	base //The base values of what you want to sprinkle. Every entity will have these values, but you do not need to put anything here
	{
		"classname" "prop_static"
		grid "64 64" // The default grid size of this script, this can be overridden in Hammer
	}
	
	10 //This is the chance of this set of values being used, this can be any number
	{
		"model" "models/props/de_dust/hr_dust/foliage/agave_plant_01.mdl" //The values of this case
	}
	10
	{
		"model" "models/props/de_dust/hr_dust/foliage/agave_plant_02.mdl"
		"rendercolor" "13 204 75"
	}
	10
	{
		"model" "models/props/de_dust/hr_dust/foliage/agave_plant_03.mdl"
		"rendercolor" "13 204 75"
	}
	10 //Since there's 4 cases with the same chance, each case has a 1/4 chance of being placed
	{
		"model" "models/props/de_dust/hr_dust/foliage/agave_plant_04.mdl"
		"uniformscale" "1.3"
	}
}