Template:KV BaseNPC

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.

• RenderFields:

Render Mode (rendermode) <byte choices>

Set a non-standard rendering mode on this entity.

Render Modes

0: Normal 1: Color 2: Texture 3: Glow 4: Solid/Alphatest 5: Additive 6: Removed, does nothing 7: Additive Fractional Frame 8: Alpha Add 9: World Space Glow 10: Don't Render

Render FX (renderfx) <byte choices>

Various somewhat legacy alpha effects. See render effects.

Render Amount / Transparency (renderamt) <byte>

Transparency amount, requires a Render Mode other than Normal. 0 is invisible, 255 is fully visible.

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

Color tint.

• disablereceiveshadows

<boolean> Disable Recieving Shadows

• DamageFilter:

Damage Filter (damagefilter) <targetname>

Name of the filter_damage_type entity that controls which entities can damage us.

• Template:Kv responsecontext
• Template:Kv shadow

• target

<target_destination> If set, the name of a path corner entity that this NPC will walk to, after spawning.

• squadname

<string> NPCs that are in the same squad (i.e. have matching squad names) will share information about enemies, and will take turns attacking and covering each other.

• hintgroup

<string> Hint groups are used by NPCs to restrict their hint-node searching to a subset of the map's hint nodes. Only hint nodes with matching hint group names will be considered by this NPC.

• hintlimiting

<boolean> Limits NPC to using specified hint group for navigation requests, but does not limit local navigation.

• sleepstate

<choices> Holds the NPC in stasis until specified condition. See also 'Wake Radius' and 'Wake Squad'.

Literal value	Description
0	None
1	Waiting for threat
2	Waiting for PVS
3	Waiting for input, ignore PVS
4 (in all games since )	Auto PVS (in all games since )
5 (in all games since )	Auto PVS after PVS (in all games since )

• wakeradius

<float> Auto-wake if player within this distance

• wakesquad

<boolean> Wake all of the NPCs squadmates if the NPC is woken

• physdamagescale

<float> Scales damage energy when this character is hit by a physics object. With a value of 0 the NPC will take no damage from physics.