Template:KV CAI BaseNPC

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Weapon Held (additionalequipment) ([todo internal name (i)]) <classname>

Gives the NPC a weapon. NPCs may attack oddly or not attack if they don't know how to use a particular weapon.

Health (health) ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

How close to death the NPC is.

Maximum Health (max_health) ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Health cannot exceed this amount.

Squad Name (squadname) ([todo internal name (i)]) <string>

NPCs that are in the same squad will share information about enemies, and will take turns attacking and covering each other.

Relationship (Relationship) ([todo internal name (i)]) <string> !FGD

<string|targetname or classname> <string|disposition> <int|rank>

Changes whether this NPC likes or dislikes certain others. Used like the ai_relationship entity, with this NPC as the subject.

Values for disposition are:

• D_HT: Hate
• D_FR: Fear
• D_LI: Like
• D_NU: Neutral

Target Path Corner (target) ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

If set, the name of a path_corner entity that this NPC will move to, after spawning. Must be within 576 units from the NPC.

Sleep State (sleepstate) ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

Holds the NPC in stasis until specified condition. See also Wake Radius and Wake Squad.

• 0: None
• 1: Waiting for threat
• 2: Waiting for PVS
• 3: Waiting for input, ignore PVS
• 4: Auto PVS
• 5: Auto PVS after PVS

Todo: clarify the differences between each

Wake Radius (wakeradius) ([todo internal name (i)]) <float>

Auto-wake if player is within this distance, in Hammer units.

Wake Squad (wakesquad) ([todo internal name (i)]) <boolean>

If yes, wake all of the NPCs squadmates if the NPC is woken.

Ignore unseen enemies (ignoreunseenenemies) ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

Prefer visible enemies, regardless of distance or relationship priority.

Hint Group (hintgroup) ([todo internal name (i)]) <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.

Hint Limit Nav ([todo internal name (i)]) <boolean>

If yes, limits NPC to using specified hint group for navigation requests, but does not limit local navigation.

Enemy Filter (enemyfilter) ([todo internal name (i)]) <targetname>

Filter by which to filter potential enemies.

Physics Impact Damage Scale (physdamagescale) ([todo internal name (i)]) <float>

Multiplier for damage amount when this NPC is hit by a physics object. With a value of 0 the NPC will take no damage from physics.

Local Velocity (velocity) ([todo internal name (i)]) <vector> !FGD

Velocity generated by the entity, can cause strange behavior if changed.

Base Velocity (basevelocity) ([todo internal name (i)]) <vector> !FGD

Velocity to start with on spawn.

Angular Velocity (avelocity) ([todo internal name (i)]) <vector> !FGD

Angular velocity to start with on spawn.

Water Level (waterlevel) ([todo internal name (i)]) <character> !FGD

Current water level of the entity, can cause strange behavior if changed.