#Half life sea monster code#

The Armored Man is a special case he wears a helmet and an armored vest so headshots and body shots will not deal damage. Ideally, hitgroups values are different since they represent each part of the human body (head, left arm, right arm, stomach.) This is how headshots are detected in order to multiply the damage inflicted. Some of them have a hitgroup value of '0' while the rest has '1'. Now that we have finished analyzing the sequences, time to look at hitboxes. Since the shield is specific to the Armored Man, we will have to program it. If you read the important 'disclaimer' about modifying activities, you know why its name does not match the action. We will need to program that reload logic.ДЇinally, the last sequence is the one for the shield tied to the ACT_EXCITED activity. One important animation event to note is '5' because it is the one responsible for completing the actual reload. We have a reload sequence with several animation events '1004' ( SCRIPT_EVENT_SOUND) for the shotgun sounds. When you have finished reading this page and programming the Armored Man, an exercise for you would to be program that arm weapon behavior (look at Half-Life's Barney for inspiration) and probably finish ValveвЂ™s unfinished work by programming the holster one. Next we have the 'draw' and 'holster' sequences tied respectively to the ACT_ARM and ACT_DISARM activities respectively and have the events '2' and '4' respectively.

#Half life sea monster code#

The muzzle flash animation event there in the default/common code but we need to program the shoot one since it is specific to the Armored Man. They have two animation events: '5001' for the muzzle flash and '3' for the actual shoot. We have two identical 'shoot' sequences (only one should have been enough) tied to ACT_RANGE_ATTACK1. They were supposed to be used in specific contexts (scripted sequences) in Half-Rats: Parasomnia but they ended up being unused. The assasinated and standing_idle sequences are not tied to activities.

Those are common to all monsters and therefore do not require extra programming. Likewise, on the death animations, you will see animation event '2001' ( MONSTER_EVENT_BODYDROP_LIGHT) being used to play the body drop sound (those are default Half-Life sounds unlike the footsteps ones). One thing worth mentioning is that we have custom footsteps sounds instead of the default ones from Half-Life ( common/npc_stepX.wav). On walking and running sequences, animation event '1004' ( SCRIPT_EVENT_SOUND) is used to play footstep sounds. Those are the very basic sequences/activities used by all monsters so we do not need to program them again. Likewise, we also have animations for walking, running, turning left and right and various flinching and deaths tied to their matching activities. Look at sequences first: we can see that we have several idle animations tied to the ACT_IDLE activity. When working on a mod, it is very common to have the programmers and the artists (modeling, animating, compiling.) working together to define the needed sequences, activities, animation events and so on to bring the newly created monster to life. The reason we are doing this 'technical analysis' is to gather 'technical information' about the monster itself that is going to be used in the code. If you are using another Half-Life Model Viewer, you might need to decompile the model and read the QC file to gather the information explained here. Solokiller's Half-Life Assets Manager works best since it will give you more details without having to decompile the model itself. Open the armorman.mdl file with any Half-Life Model Viewer. If the enemy is too far, he will try to get closer to him.ДЇinally, he has the ability to lead a squad or be part of one similar to Half-Life's alien grunts. He uses a double barrel shotgun as range attack, he will fire one barrel if the enemy is far or both if he is close. He does not have a melee attack, but he has a shield that he can use whenever his health is low to protect him from bullets (with a 'delay before use it again' to prevent him from using it every 2 seconds).

He is a tall 'human-like' enemy carrying a helmet and body armor that protects him from bullets similar to Barney's helmet in Half-Life. Introducing the Armored ManДЇor those who have not played Half-Rats: Parasomnia or need to refresh their memory, here's a description of the Armored Man. Heath Games, the developers of Half-Rats: Parasomnia allow usage of its assets and derivatives in other projects as long as:ДЎ) You do not use the assets and any derivatives for commercial purposes.Дў) You give the proper credits to Heath Games do not claim you made the assets.