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Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:32 pm**

   DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "classname", "env_sprite_oriented");
    DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "spawnflags", "1");
    DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "scale", "0.3");
    DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "rendermode", "1");
    DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "rendercolor", "255 255 255");
    DispatchKeyValue(sprite, "model", OVERLAY);
    if(DispatchSpawn(sprite))    return sprite;

GetClientAbsOrigin(client, origin);
        origin[2] = origin[2] + 90.0;
        TeleportEntity(entity, origin, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);

        SetVariantString("!activator");
        AcceptEntityInput(entity, "SetParent", client);

if(IsValidEntity(entity)) {
        AcceptEntityInput(entity, "Kill");
    }

following is what i have come up with but not sure if it'll work

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entity = BaseEntity(index)
    sprite = BaseEntity(create_entity('env_sprite_oriented'))
    sprite.spawnflags = 10
    sprite.scale = 1
    sprite.rendermode = 1
    sprite.rendercolor = 255 255 255
    sprite.model = model

    PlayerEntity(index).location[1] + 90

Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:45 pm**

If you're not sure then test it!?

But some pointers:

You aren't spawning your entity. (I think this will be changed in an upcoming version of SP)

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spawn_entity(sprite.index)

AFAIK you have to use the edict to set key values:

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sprite.edict.set_key_value_int("rendermode", 1)

You can set the location of your sprite using:

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player = PlayerEntity(index)
sprite.edict.set_key_value_vector("origin", player.location + Vector(0, 90, 0))

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:03 am**

We have added an 'origin' property for entities in the entities_changes branch. With it, you can use:

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sprite.origin = player.origin + Vector(0, 90, 0)

spawn_entity will be located in entities.helpers, and will likely be wrapped by BaseEntity.spawn (except in the case of PlayerEntity). To set the color, you will simply need to use:

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BaseEntity.set_color(Color)

# or
BaseEntity.color = Color

Color in the above example is any Color object including any of our built-in colors:
http://wiki.sourcepython.com/pages/colors

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how would i script this in SP??

how would i script this in SP??