ai_speechfilter

From Valve Developer Community

This is a point entity available in all Source games.

Contents 1 Entity description 2 Keyvalues 3 Inputs 4 Outputs

Entity description

An entity that can be used to control the idle speech patterns of a set of NPCs. Speech patterns for NPCs are defined in Response System.

Keyvalues

• Targetname:

• ResponseContext

<string> Response system context(s) for this entity. Format should be: 'key:value,key2:value2,etc'. When this entity speaks, the list of keys & values will be passed to the response rules system.

• subject

<target_destination> This is the subject(s) whose speech to filtering. May be a targetname or a classname.

• IdleModifier

<float> Multiplier to the percentage chance that subject(s) will idle speak. Set to 0 to prevent all idle speech.

• NeverSayHello

<boolean> If set to Yes, subject(s) won't greet the player on first encounter.

• StartDisabled

<boolean>

Inputs

• Targetname:

• AddContext <string>

Adds a context to this entity's list of response contexts. The format should be 'key:value'.

• RemoveContext <string>

Remove a context from this entity's list of response contexts. The name should match the 'key' of a previously added context.

• ClearContext

Removes all contexts in this entity's list of response contexts.

• Enable

Enable this entity.

• Disable

Disable this entity.

• SetIdleModifier <float>

Allows designers to change the idle modifier at runtime.

Outputs

• Targetname: