monster_alien_slave (aka Vortigaunt) #

TWHL

Changes #

• Restores some bits of its health upon damaging targets with electro-attack (if vortigaunt_selfheal feature is enabled).
• When full on health vortigaunt gains an additional energy upon electrocuting enemies. The energy is used to execute new abilities.
• Can revive fallen ally alien slaves using an excess energy (if vortigaunt_revive feature is enabled). Unlike Sven Co-op implementation it does not halve the maximum vortigaunt health. Instead vortigaunt can be revived only once.
• Can heal injured ally alien slaves spending an excess energy (if vortigaunt_heal feature is enabled).
• New ability: a coil attack (if vortigaunt_coil_attack feature is enabled).
• Vortigaunt’s arms are glowing upon charging an electro attack.
• When a vortigaunt has an excess energy, his claws deal more damage (claws are glowing at the time of melee attack) (if vortigaunt_arm_boost feature is enabled).
• When idle, plays some additional effects like random lightning (a feature cut from Half-Life) (if vortigaunt_idle_effects feature is enabled).
• If player is ally, vortigaunt can charge player’s suit armor (requires energy) kinda like in Half-Life 2 (if vortigaunt_armor_charge feature is enabled).

Skill variables #

• sk_islave_health - monster’s health.
• sk_islave_dmg_claw - melee damage.
• sk_islave_dmg_clawrake - melee damage (event 2) (not used?).
• sk_islave_dmg_zap - zap beam damage. Note: alien slave creates two zap beams, so he can deal double damage if both beams hit the target. This also controls how much alien slave heals another. The maximum coil attack damage is this variable multiplied by 2.5.
• sk_islave_zap_rate - framerate of zap attack animation. In Half-Life it wasn’t configurable. Default values: 1 on easy and medium, 1.5 on hard (replicating the behavior from Half-Life).
• sk_islave_revival - whether alien slaves can revive each other. 0 means revival is not allowed. 1 means revival is allowed. Default values: 0 on easy and medium, 1 on hard.

Default classification #

Alien Military

Soundscripts #

• Vortigaunt.Pain - pain sounds.
• Vortigaunt.Die - death sounds.
• Vortigaunt.ZapPowerup - played several times during the zap attack powerup.
• Vortigaunt.ZapShoot - played on lightning attack.
• Vortigaunt.Electro - played at the end of ligtning.
• Vortigaunt.GlowArm - melee attack with charged arms.
• Vortigaunt.IdleZap - played along with idle effects.
• Vortigaunt.SummonStart - starting spawn a familiar.
• Vortigaunt.SummonEnd - finishing spawn a familiar.
• Vortigaunt.AttackHit - melee attack hit. Derived from NPC.AttackHit
• Vortigaunt.AttackMiss - melee attack miss. Derived from NPC.AttackMiss
• Vortigaunt.SuitOn - charge token of friendly vortigaunt touches the player.

Visuals #

• Vortigaunt.PowerupBeam - beams produced on attack powerup.
• Vortigaunt.PowerupLight - dynamic light emitted on attack powerup.
• Vortigaunt.ZapBeam - attack zap beam.
• Vortigaunt.RevivalBeam - revival beam.
• Vortigaunt.IdleBeam - temporary beams occasionally played when vortigaunt is idle.
• Vortigaunt.IdleLight - dynamic light occasionally emitted when vortigaunt is idle.
• Vortigaunt.CoilBeam - ring beam produced on the coil attack.
• Vortigaunt.HandGlow - sprites appearing on vortigaunt’s hands when he uses range attacks or boosted melee attack.
• Vortigaunt.MeleeTrailBeam - beam trail emitted from arms when vortigaunt uses a melee attack and has some spare energy.
• Vortigaunt.SummonBeam - beams produced on summon animation.
• Vortigaunt.SummonSprite - sprite of the summoning effect.
• Vortigaunt.SummonLight - dynamic light emitted on summoning effect.
• Vortigaunt.ChargeToken - charge token sprite.
• Vortigaunt.ChargeTokenLight - entity light emitted from the charge token sprite.

Shared visuals:

• Vortigaunt.ZapBeamColor - color shared by Vortigaunt.ZapBeam, Vortigaunt.RevivalBeam, Vortigaunt.SummonBeam, Vortigaunt.CoilBeam and Vortigaunt.HandGlow.
• Vortigaunt.ArmBeamColor - color shared by Vortigaunt.PowerupBeam, Vortigaunt.IdleBeam and Vortigaunt.MeleeTrailBeam.
• Vortigaunt.BeamLightColor - color shared by Vortigaunt.PowerupLight, Vortigaunt.IdleLight and Vortigaunt.SummonLight.

Entity template examples #

{
    "monster_alien_slave": {
        "squad_capability": {
            "can_recruit": true
        }
    }
}

{
    "vort_friendly": {
        "inherits": "monster_alien_slave",
        "own_visual": {
            "model": "models/islavef.mdl"
        },
        "classify": "Player Ally",
        "visuals": {
            "Vortigaunt.ZapBeamColor": {
                "color": [96, 180, 255]
            },
            "Vortigaunt.ArmBeamColor": {
                "color": [96, 180, 255]
            }
        }
    }
}

{
    "vort_exp": {
        "inherits": "monster_alien_slave",
        "own_visual": {
            "model": "models/sslave.mdl"
        },
        "blood": "red",
        "visuals": {
            "Vortigaunt.ZapBeamColor": {
                "color": [255, 128, 255]
            },
            "Vortigaunt.ArmBeamColor": {
                "color": [255, 128, 255]
            },
            "Vortigaunt.BeamLightColor": {
                "color": [255, 128, 255]
            }
        }
    }
}