Ai goal follow

Entity Description

Makes the target NPCs follow another object or the player at a configurable distance.

Limitations and bugs

• NPCs do not intelligently follow their target. They will instead walk or run depending on distance directly towards it.
• If NPCs are following another NPC and that NPC needs to get past them, they will not move out of the way and the leading NPC will eventually give up.
• Keyvalues cannot be changed once the map has been compiled.

Keyvalues

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

• actor

<target_name_or_class> The name of the NPCs that will be following.

• goal

<string> The name of the entity that the NPCs should follow.

• If this value is blank, NPCs will follow the player if they are friendly towards him

• SearchType

<choices> How to search for the entities using the actor.

Literal Value	Description
0	Entity name
1	Classname

• StartActive

<boolean>

• MaximumState

<choices> The maximum state for NPCs to continue following.

Literal Value	Description
0	Idle
1	Alert
2	Combat

• Formation

<choices> How close to the target the NPCs should follow.

Literal Value	Description
0	Close circle
5	Medium Circle
1	Wide circle
6 (in all games since )	Sidekick (in all games since )

Inputs

• Activate

Begin the follow behavior

• Deactivate

Cease the following behavior

Outputs

• Template:O targetname