<function name="SetPreventTransmit" parent="Entity" type="classfunc"> <description> Prevents the server from sending any further information about the entity to a player. <note>You must also call this function on a player's children if you would like to prevent transmission for players. See <page>Entity:GetChildren</page>.</note>⤶ ⤶ <bug issue="1736">This does not work for nextbots unless you recursively loop their children and update them too.</bug>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <validate>When using this function, <page>Entity:SetFlexScale</page> will conflict with this function. Instead, consider using <page>Entity:SetFlexScale</page> on the client.</validate>⤶ <note>You must also call this function on all entity's children. See <page>Entity:GetChildren</page>.⤶ ⤶ [issue tracker](https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/1736)⤶ ⤶ <page>Entity:SetFlexScale</page> and other flex/bone manipulation functions will create a child entity.⤶ </note>⤶ </description> <realm>Server</realm> <args> <arg name="player" type="Player" alttype="CRecipientFilter">The player to stop networking the entity to. Can also be a <page>CRecipientFilter</page> as of March 2024 to affect multiple players at once.</arg> <arg name="stopTransmitting" type="boolean">true to stop the entity from networking, false to make it network again.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>This will loop through all children entities of the ent passed and stop networking them too. Works with nextbots/players</description> <code> function RecursiveSetPreventTransmit(ent, ply, stopTransmitting) if ent ~= ply and IsValid(ent) and IsValid(ply) then ent:SetPreventTransmit(ply, stopTransmitting) function RecursiveSetPreventTransmit( ent, ply, stopTransmitting ) if ( ent ~= ply and IsValid( ent ) and IsValid( ply ) ) then ent:SetPreventTransmit( ply, stopTransmitting ) local tab = ent:GetChildren() for i = 1, #tab do RecursiveSetPreventTransmit(tab[ i ], ply, stopTransmitting) RecursiveSetPreventTransmit( tab[ i ], ply, stopTransmitting ) end end end </code> </example>