monster_alien_grunt #

TWHL

Changes #

Restores health when eating.
Hitting the alien grunt’s head now counts as a headshot (in original Half-Life it counts as regular shot). The damage multiplier is still lower than the one from skill.cfg in order to not break a balance much.

Skill variables #

sk_agrunt_health - monster’s health.
sk_agrunt_dmg_punch - melee damage.
hornet skill variables.

Default classification #

Alien Military

Soundscripts #

AlienGrunt.Idle - idle speaking sounds. Alien grunts speak phrases consisting of short words.
AlienGrunt.Alert - alert sounds.
AlienGrunt.Pain - pain sounds.
AlienGrunt.Die - death sounds.
AlienGrunt.Attack - played on melee attack.
AlienGrunt.LeftFoot - left footstep.
AlienGrunt.RightFoot - right footstep.
AlienGrunt.Fire - firing a hornet.
AlienGrunt.AttackHit - melee attack hit. Derived from NPC.AttackHit
AlienGrunt.AttackMiss - melee attack miss. Derived from NPC.AttackMiss
AlienGrunt.Use - start following the ally player. Derived from AlienGrunt.Idle
AlienGrunt.UnUse - stop following the ally player. Derived from AlienGrunt.Alert
hornet soundscripts.

Visuals #

AlienGrunt.MuzzleFlash - temporary flash sprite played when firing a hornet.
hornet visuals.

Attacks #

Melee Attack 1 - melee.
Range Attack 1 - fire hornets.

Animation events #

1 - 5 - spawn a hornet projectile, with AlienGrunt.MuzzleFlash visual and AlienGrunt.Fire soundscript.
10 - play AlienGrunt.LeftFoot soundscript.
11 - play AlienGrunt.RightFoot soundscript.
12 - trace hull attack with left arm. Deals sk_agrunt_dmg_punch damage. Plays AlienGrunt.AttackHit or AlienGrunt.AttackMiss soundscripts.
13 - trace hull attack with right arm. Deals sk_agrunt_dmg_punch damage. Plays AlienGrunt.AttackHit or AlienGrunt.AttackMiss soundscripts.

Let alien grunts open doors

In Half-Life alien grunts can’t open doors.

{
    "monster_alien_grunt": {
        "open_door_capability": true
    }
}

Cyber Franklin from They Hunger

In order to make this work correctly some adjustments to the model are needed:

For events with id 6 change the id to 2 - for proper number of shots fired during the animation.
For events with id 3 change the id to 12 or 13 - for proper melee attacks.

{
    "cyberfranklin": {
        "own_visual": {
            "model": "models/franklin2.mdl"
        },
        "health": 600,
        "blood": "red",
        "field_of_view": -1,
        "size": "human",
        "collision_box": "human",
        "soundscripts": {
            "AlienGrunt.Idle": {
                "waves": []
            },
            "AlienGrunt.Alert": {
                "waves": ["franklin/alert1.wav"]
            },
            "AlienGrunt.Attack": {
                "waves": ["franklin/attack1.wav"]
            },
            "AlienGrunt.Pain": {
                "waves": ["franklin/pain1.wav", "franklin/pain2.wav"]
            },
            "AlienGrunt.Die": {
                "waves": ["franklin/death1.wav", "franklin/death2.wav", "franklin/death3.wav"]
            },
        },
        "precached_sounds": ["franklin/franklin_step.wav", "player/pl_tile1.wav"]
    }
}