monster_bullchicken (aka Bullsquid) #

TWHL

Changes #

• Spit projectile precision depends on difficulty level (sk_bullsquid_spit_inaccuracy skill value).
• Can spit an alternative projectile - the slow poisonous ball. Depends on sk_bullsquid_toxicity skill value.
• Restores health when eating.
• In Half-Life bullsquid could use a spit attack every time he failed to chase the enemy, disregarding the distance and the height difference used in normal range attack checks. This made bullsquids spam their range attacks in certain areas where they can’t build a path to the enemy (e.g. some bullsquids on Blast Pit). In Featurful SDK we changed the behavior - the bullsquid will still have a chance to spit at much longer distance after he failed to chase his enemy, but as it’s a chance-based now, he won’t spawn his attacks.

If you don’t want a new bullsquid’s projectile attack put the following entry in your skill.cfg:

sk_bullsquid_toxicity 0

Skill variables #

• sk_bullsquid_health - monster’s health.
• sk_bullsquid_dmg_bite - bite damage.
• sk_bullsquid_dmg_whip - tail whip damage.
• squidspit skill variables.
• sk_bullsquid_toxicity - whether bullsquids can use toxic spit attack. Default values: 0 on easy, 1 on medium and hard.
• squidtoxicspit skill variables.
• sk_bullsquid_spit_inaccuracy - the spit inaccuracy in unspecified units. The higher value means the worse accuracy. Default values: 5 on Easy, 3 on Medium, 1 on Hard. 0 means the perfect accuracy. In original Half-Life the inaccuracy worked as if it had value 5 regardless of difficulty.

Default classification #

Alien Predator

Default display name #

Bullsquid

Soundscripts #

• Bullsquid.Idle - idle sounds.
• Bullsquid.Alert - alert sounds.
• Bullsquid.Pain - pain sounds.
• Bullsquid.Die - death sounds.
• Bullsquid.Growl - a growling sound on the bite attack.
• Bullsquid.Attack - spit attack sound.
• Bullsquid.AttackToxic - toxic spit attack sound.
• Bullsquid.Bite - bit someone with a bite attack.
• Bullsquid.Use - start following the ally player. Derived from Bullsquid.Idle
• Bullsquid.UnUse - stop following the ally player. Derived from Bullsquid.Alert.
• squidspit soundscripts
• squidtoxicspit soundscripts

Visuals #

• Bullsquid.TinySpit - sprites sprayed out of bullsquid mouth on spit attack.
• squidspit visuals
• Bullsquid.ToxicTinySpit - sprites sprayed out of bullsquid mouth on toxic spit attack.
• squidtoxicspit visuals

Shared visuals:

• Bullsquid.TinySpitBase - defines a sprite used by Bullsquid.TinySpit, Bullsquid.ToxicTinySpit, Bullsquid.Fleck and Bullsquid.ToxicFleck.

Attacks #

• Melee Attack 1 - tail whip.
• Melee Attack 2 - bite.
• Range Attack 1 - spit.

Animation events #

• 1 - spawn spit projectile. Play Bullsquid.Attack or Bullsquid.AttackToxic soundscripts.
• 2 - bite trace hull attack. Deals sk_bullsquid_dmg_bite damage.
• 3 - change skin to 1 (close eyes).
• 4 - tail whip trace hull attack. Deals sk_bullsquid_dmg_whip damage.
• 5 - jump (when bullsquid is surprised by attack).
• 6 - knock away trace hull attack (during bite). Doesn’t do damage by default, just a knockback.

Entity template examples #

{
    "yellowbullsquid": {
        "own_visual": {
            "model": "models/yellowbullsquid.mdl"
        },
        "visuals": {
            "Bullsquid.Spit": {
                "model": "models/spit.mdl",
                "rendermode": "normal",
                "framerate": 1.0,
                "scale": 1
            }
        }
    }
}

{
    "monster_bullchicken": {
        "check_melee_attack1": {
            "distance": 85,
            "dot": 0.7
        },
        "check_melee_attack2": {
            "distance": 85,
            "dot": 0.7
        },
        "trace_hull_attacks": {
            "2": {
                "distance": 70,
                "knock": {
                    "forward": -100,
                    "up": 100
                }
            },
            "4": {
                "distance": 70,
                "punchangle": {
                    "pitch": 20,
                    "roll": -20
                },
                "knock": {
                    "right": 200,
                    "up": 100
                },
                "damage_info": {
                    "type": ["club"],
                    "gib": "always"
                }
            },
            "6": {
                "distance": 70,
                "knock": {
                    "forward": 300,
                    "up": 300,
                    "player_only": true
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

{
    "monster_bullchicken": {
        "jumping": {
            "ability": true,
            "start_sequence": "suprisedhop",
            "start_frame_fraction": 0.25
        }
    }
}