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ents.FindInBox

  table ents.FindInBox( Vector boxMins, Vector boxMaxs )
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Description

Returns all entities within the specified box.

This internally uses a Spatial Partition to avoid looping through all entities.
Clientside entities will not be returned by this function.
There is a limit of 512 entities for the output!

Arguments

1 Vector boxMins
The box minimum coordinates.
2 Vector boxMaxs
The box maximum coordinates.

Returns

1 table
A table of all found entities.

Example

Returns a table of players in a box using ents.FindInBox

function ents.FindPlayersInBox( vCorner1, vCorner2 ) local tEntities = ents.FindInBox( vCorner1, vCorner2 ) local tPlayers = {} local iPlayers = 0 for i = 1, #tEntities do if ( tEntities[ i ]:IsPlayer() ) then iPlayers = iPlayers + 1 tPlayers[ iPlayers ] = tEntities[ i ] end end return tPlayers, iPlayers end

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