Wire Starters Guide - Learn how to wire

One problem I see with a lot of people I try to help is that they don't understand what I mean when I say "Wire the screen's "A" to the speedometer's "MPH". They don't know the most basic operation of wire - wiring something. This post is going to teach you how to wire things, along with some common ways to communicate a wiring.

When you are wiring something, you are taking an input and connecting it to an output. Let's start with something simple: An indicator hooked up to a button.

First make a wired button, with the "Toggle" checkbox checked, a "1" for the on value, and "0" for the off value. You can use any model for it.

Now make an Indicator. The defaults should be fine, but in case you've changed it, make the first color's on value "0" and the second color's on value "1". The colors themselves can be anything you want.

To wire them, you need to click the input and then click the output that you want to send to it. So click the indicator, then click the button.

Congratulations, you now have a .. uh.. lamp.. or something? Whatever.

There are a few different ways to say "Wire the input of the indicator to the output of the button".

1. Button -> Indicator
2. Wire the indicator to the button
3. Hook the button up to the indicator

They all mean the same exact thing, but different phrases will be used in different contexts.

Hopefully this taught you some things or cleared up some misconceptions, if you have any questions please ask. Wire opens up many doors (both literally and figuratively) in the gmod world, so it's a really great thing to learn and it's easy once you understand it.
Thanks for reading

Looks very helpful to people who don't know how to wire!

i actually dont understand this O.o :[

Don't worry, hes a facepunch c*ck, and he's gone =]