item_suit

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Entity description

HEV Suit

The HEV suit (The Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit). An upgraded version of the Mark IV suit that Black Mesa employees were required to wear when handling anomalous materials (in Half-Life).

 Placement Tip: This entity should be placed at least one inch above the ground, or it will not be visible in-game.

Suit jingle

When Dr. Gordon Freeman enters his suit in Half-Life 2 a small tune starts playing. Here is how to set this up:

• If you haven't already, create the item_suit entity.
• Create an ambient_generic preferably somewhere near the suit.
• Open its properties and name the entity. (This example will name it "SuitSong".)
• Select a song for its Sound Name property. The song used in Half-Life 2 is called song_trainstation_05_suit (music/hl1_song11.mp3), but there is apparently also a tune called song23 (music/hl2_song23_suitsong3.mp3) that judging by its name looks like it was intended for the HEV suit.
• Check the Play everywhere flag so that all its three flags are checked.
• Click on the item_suit and create an output for OnPlayerTouch that fire's SuitSong's PlaySound.

Keyvalues

• Targetname:

• Angles:

• Shadow:

• fademindist

<float> Distance at which the prop starts to fade (<0 = use fademaxdist). If 'Screen Space Fade' is selected, this represents the number of pixels wide covered by the prop when it starts to fade.

• fademaxdist

<float> Maximum distance at which the prop is visible (0 = don't fade out). If 'Screen Space Fade' is selected, this represents the *minimum* number of pixels wide covered by the prop when it fades.

• fadescale

<float> If you specify a fade in the worldspawn, or if the engine is running under dx7, then the engine will forcibly fade out props even if fademindist/fademaxdist isn't specified. This scale factor gives you some control over the fade. Using 0 here turns off the forcible fades.

Flags

• 1 : Short Logon

When checked, doesn't play the logon (hl1/fvox/bell.wav) sample. In Half-Life this flag was used to cut the HEV suits long logon speech, but Dr. Kleiner apparently replaced it with a simple bell sound while upgrading it.

Inputs

• Targetname:

Outputs

• Targetname:

• OnPlayerTouch

Fires when the player touches this object. (activator is the player)

• OnCacheInteraction

This output fires when the player proves they have 'found' this item. Fires on: Player Touch (whether or not player actually acquires the item), Picked up by +USE, Picked up by Physcannon, Punted by Physcannon.