Info player marine

info_player_marine is a point entity available in Black Mesa.

Entity description

Represents a spawn point of a player on the HECU team during a team deathmatch game in Black Mesa.

Important:Blocking of all spawn points in Black Mesa will cause players to spawn at map center.

Bug:In Black Mesa player can respawn at any moment during a multiplayer game if press Choose team button and use Auto distribution button. With this player get a huge advantage over other players during a multiplayer game, such as avoiding death or spawning at a required point. Can be fixed with plugins only.  [todo tested in ?]

Tip:If you want to place your spawn point on a displacement surface - place your spawn point in air, players will automatically teleporting to ground.

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

Parentname:

Parent (parentname) <targetname>

Specifies a movement parent. An entity will maintain its initial offset from its parent. An attachment point can be added to the end of the name, separated by a comma.

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.

List of items to spawn the player with. (itemstogive) <string>

Comma-delimited list of items that player will receive if spawning at this point.

Important:Items must be separated by commas with no spaces. For example, to give a player three batteries, a gluon gun, and a grenade for the MP5, put item_battery,item_battery,item_battery,weapon_gluon,item_grenade_mp5.

Note:Players always get item_suit.

Note:If nothing is specified here, then players will get item_weapon_crowbar, item_weapon_glock with full ammo and 3 item_weapon_frag.

Bug:Players with no weapons will T-pose, even though _noweapon animations exist.

Confirm:Can be fixed with plugins ?

  [todo tested in ?]

Bug:Players using weapon_headcrab will T-pose.

Confirm:Can be fixed with plugins ?

  [todo tested in ?]

Bug:Items can be picked up not only by player that appears at spawn point.^[Clarify]

Confirm:Can be fixed with plugins ?

  [todo tested in ?]

Inputs

Enable <void>

Enable this spawnpoint

Note:Also fires when a player or any other object stops blocking a given point.

Disable <void>

Disable this spawnpoint

Note:Also fires when a player or any other object starts blocking a given point.

Parentname:

SetParent <stringRedirectInput/string>

Move with this entity. See Entity Hierarchy (parenting).

SetParentAttachment <stringRedirectInput/string>

Change this entity to attach to a specific attachment point on its parent. The entity will teleport so that the position of its root bone matches that of the attachment. Entities must be parented before being sent this input.

SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset <stringRedirectInput/string>

As above, but without teleporting. The entity retains its position relative to the attachment at the time of the input being received.

ClearParent

Removes this entity from the the movement hierarchy, leaving it free to move independently.

See also

• info_player_scientist - spawn point for scientist team in Black Mesa multiplayer.
• info_player_deathmatch - general multiplayer spawn point.
• info_observer_menu - spawn point for spectators in Black Mesa multiplayer.
• info_player_start - general singleplayer spawn point.
• info_player_combine - spawn point for combine team in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch multiplayer.
• info_player_rebel - spawn point for rebel team in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch multiplayer.
• game_player_equip - gives weapons to players.