Npc dog

Entity Description

Dog

Dog is one of the main characters introduced in Half-Life 2. Dog can play fetch and pick up things.

Also see descriptions for Dog and other Half-Life Continuity

Dog does not have any battle AI, and therefore will simply run away when faced with enemies. All of Dog's battle scenes in Half-Life 2 were scripted.

Note:Some keyvalues, spawnflags, effect flags, inputs, or outputs might not affect an NPC, based on the functionality and coding of the NPC.

Keyvalues

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Flags

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Inputs

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• SetPickupTarget <target_destination>

Sets the target entity for Dog to pickup.

• StartCatchThrowBehavior <target_destination>

Tells Dog to start playing with the player. You can pass the name of the object you want him to play with, otherwise he'll just use the closest phys_object.

• StopCatchThrowBehavior <target_destination>

Stop the catch and throw behavior.

• PlayerPickupObject

Tells Dog the physgun just picked up an object.

• StartWaitAndCatch

Tells Dog to wait for the player to throw an object at him.

• StopWaitAndCatch

Tells Dog to stop waiting for the player.

• SetThrowArcModifier <float>

Used to pass in a modifier for Dog's object flight arc.

• SetThrowTarget <target_destination>

Set Dog's throw target (pass in !player if you want the player)

• TurnBoneFollowersOff (in all games since )

Turn Dog's bone followers off

• TurnBoneFollowersOn (in all games since )

Turn Dog's bone followers on

Outputs

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• OnDogThrow

Fires when Dog throws an object.

• OnDogPickup

Fires when Dog picks up an object.

• OnDogCatch

Fires when Dog catches an object.