<function name="SetHealth" parent="Entity" type="classfunc"> <description> Sets the health of the entity. <note>You may want to take <page>Entity:GetMaxHealth</page> into account when calculating what to set health to, in case a gamemode has a different max health than 100.</note> <bug issue="3572">In some cases, setting health only on server side can cause hitches in movement, for example if something modifying the player speed based on health. To solve this issue, it is better to set it shared in a predicted hook.</bug> <bug issue="3572">In some cases, setting health only on server side can cause hitches in movement, for example if something is modifying the player speed based on health. To solve this issue, it is better to set it shared in a predicted hook.</bug> </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="newHealth" type="number">New health value.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Sets the entity's health to their maximum health.</description> <code>Entity( 1 ):SetHealth( Entity( 1 ):GetMaxHealth() )</code> <output>The entity's health is now full.</output> </example> <example> <description>Deducts 50 points of health from the entity.</description> <code>Entity( 1 ):SetHealth( Entity( 1 ):Health() - 50 )</code> <output>The entity now has 50 less health.</output> </example>