Es fire

Overview

Syntax: es_fire <userid> <classname or targetname> <input name> [optional parameter] [delay]

Variation of this command that doesn't expand variables: es_xfire

Description

Cause a player to manipulate game entities. It works the same as Valve's "ent_fire" but you can force players to run it without cheats

Parameters

• userid - Player that you wish to trigger the event
• classname/targetname - Class or Target to trigger
• input name - All entities have different input triggers
• value - Value of input you wish to change
• delay - Delay the action for x seconds

Examples

event player_spawn
{
  // set the player's personal gravity
  es_fire event_var(userid) !self addoutput "gravity 400"
}

The above example will set the player's gravity to 400 times the current server value. This is to say that the gravity is a multiplier value. If you wanted to set a player's gravity to half that of the server's then you would use 0.5 as the gravity value.

Notes

• Parameters may not always be the same for every situation
• Please note that Valve's entity message engine (which es_fire uses) does not resolve es_fire messages right away. These may require a gameframe or more before they finish. You may need to delay other commands that depend on the es_fire results such that they happen after es_fire messages are handled by Valve's entity manager.
• This command is a wrapper around Valve's ent_fire command and can do just about everything it can. (See below for external links on ent_fire.)

See also

• es_give
• es_remove
• Valve's ent_fire documentation
• Garry's Mod ent_fire documentation
• Valve's HL2 Entity database - very handy to understand how to interact with each entity

• Forum search for Es_fire
• Mattie's Forums: es_fire examples