Env instructor hint

Entity Description

Note:env_instructor_hint currently cannot display more than one hint at the same time.

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

Target Entity

The entity to show this hint on top of. The entity used must exist on the client, info_target_instructor_hint can be parented to server only entities for this purpose.

Positioning

Either show at the position of the Target Entity. Or show the hint directly on the hud at a fixed position.

Allow invisible target

Do we allow the hint to follow entites with nodraw set?

Caption

The text of your hint.

Caption Color

The color of the caption text

Force caption

Do we show the caption text even if the hint is occluded by a wall?

Onscreen Icon <choices>

The icon to use when the hint is within the player's view.

Offscreen Icon <choices>

The icon to use when the hint is outside the player's view.

Show offsreen

When the hint is offscreen, do we show an icon and arrow?

Bound Command

If using 'show key bindings' for the onscreen icon, this field should be the command we want to show bindings for

Icon Height Offset

A height offset from the target entity's origin to display the hint

Size Pulsing

The icon size can pulsate

Alpha Pulsing

The icon alpha can pulsate

Shaking

The icon can shake

Timeout

The automatic timeout for the hint. 0 will persist until stopped with EndHint.

Display Range

The visible range of the hint. 0 will show it at any distance.

Show on First Sight

When the player first sees it, it will automatically show for them.

Icons

Icon Name	Icon
icon_tip
icon_info
icon_shield
icon_alert
icon_alert_red
icon_tip (again)
icon_skull
icon_no
icon_interact
icon_button
icon_door
icon_arrow_plai
icon_arrow_plain_white_dn
icon_arrow_plain_white_up
icon_arrow_up
icon_arrow_right

show key bindings

This is a special icon that requires setting entity property Bound Command. The following example sets Bound Command to "jump" (without quotations) with Caption set to "Bet you can't jump over me!" (without quotations).

In this case, "+jump" is bound to "SPACE", the space bar on the keyboard. More commands can be found in the Left 4 Dead 2 cfg folder. Open config.cfg in a text editor to review which commands are currently bound to the client.

Flags

There are currently no flags.