Monster alien slave (GoldSrc)

GoldSrc

Half-Life: Source

Source Engine

Source 2

Black Mesa

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A group of alien slaves

Class hierarchy
CISlave ↳CSquadMonster ↳CBaseMonster ↳CBaseToggle ↳CBaseAnimating ↳CBaseDelay ↳CBaseEntity
islave.cpp

monster_alien_slave is a point entity available in Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Half-Life: Blue Shift.

Spawns a hostile vortigaunt, a small but vicious alien with the ability to claw and shoot lightning at the player or other NPCs. This monster is affected by gravity, meaning if it's positioned mid-air in the editor, it will fall to the nearest BSP brush below it when the map runs.

AltNames: This entity is also tied to monster_vortigaunt.

Note:Some keyvalues, spawnflags, or effect flags might not affect a monster, based on the functionality and coding of the monster.

Code:Vortigaunts have code which animates from skin 0 to skin 4 while they are charging their ranged attack. This feature goes unused because vanilla models only have one skin, but can be enabled without any code modifications using a custom model.

Key Values

Monster:

TriggerTarget (TriggerTarget) <targetname>

Name of entity to target when the trigger conditions are met.

Trigger Condition (TriggerCondition) <choices>

Condition to use for TriggerTarget

• 0 : "No Trigger"
• 1 : "See Player, Mad at Player"
• 2 : "Take Damage"
• 3 : "50% Health Remaining"
• 4 : "Death"
• 7 : "Hear World"
• 8 : "Hear Player"
• 9 : "Hear Combat"
• 10: "See Player Unconditional"
• 11: "See Player, Not In Combat"

Target:

Target (target) <targetname>

The targetname of the first path_corner in a path this monster will move to when spawned.

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Render FX (renderfx) <choices>

Render FX mode to use, for special effects.

Value	Description
0	Normal
1	Slow Pulse
2	Fast Pulse
3	Slow Wide Pulse
4	Fast Wide Pulse
5	Slow Fade Away
6	Fast Fade Away
7	Slow Become Solid
8	Fast Become Solid
9	Slow Strobe
10	Fast Strobe
11	Faster Strobe
12	Slow Flicker
13	Fast Flicker
14	Constant Glow
15	Distort
16	Hologram (Distort + fade)

Render Mode (rendermode) <choices>

Render Mode to use.

Value	Description
0	Normal
1	Color
2	Texture
3	Glow
4	Solid
5	Additive

Render Amount (0-255) (renderamt) <integer>

Controls transparency when using another render mode then normal. 0 is completely invisible, and 255 is opaque. If render mode is solid, then all values except 0 are opaque.

Render Color (R G B) (rendercolor) <color255>

Color to use by the specified render mode.
Also used on brush entities to control the speed of scrolling textures; see func_conveyor for more information.

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <QAngle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

Flags

• 1 : Wait Till Seen
• 2 : Gag
• 4 : Monster Clip
• 16 : Prisoner
• 32 : Squad Leader
• 64 : Ignore Player
• 128 : Wait For Script
• 256 : Pre-Disaster
• 512 : Fade Corpse

Related Entities

• monster_alien_grunt
• monster_alien_controller