Npc vortigaunt

Entity Description

Vortigaunt

These NPCs were enemies in Half Life 1, but are now friendlies. The Nilianth was controlling them but the civilians in City 17 have freed them. They tend to speak 'strangely' and with 'wise' words.

Allow multiple models (for slaves), but default to vortigaunt.mdl

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

Dedicated Console Variables

• sk_vortigaunt_health

<integer> Vortigaunt spawn health

• sk_vortigaunt_armor_charge

<integer> Amount of energy to charge the player with

• sk_vortigaunt_dmg_claw

<integer> Damage from a claw melee attack

• sk_vortigaunt_dmg_rake

<integer> Damage from a rake melee attack

• sk_vortigaunt_dmg_zap

<integer> Damage from a zap range attack

Keyvalues

• Template:Kv basenpc

• model

<studio> World model

• ArmorRechargeEnabled

<boolean> Allow Armor Recharging

Flags

• Template:Fl basenpc

Inputs

• Template:I basenpc

• EnableArmorRecharge

Allow armor recharging on players

• DisableArmorRecharge

Do not allow armor recharging on players

• ExtractBugbait <string>

Causes the vortigaunt to extract bugbait from the named target passed in.

• ChargeTarget <string>

Force the vortigaunt to charge the named target.

Outputs

• Template:O basenpc

• OnFinishedExtractingBugbait

Fires when the vortigaunt's finished extracting bugbait from a target.

• OnFinishedExtractingTauCannon

Fires when the vortigaunt's finished extracting the tau cannon from the jeep.

• OnFinishedChargingTarget

Fires when the vortigaunt has finished charging a target.

• OnPlayerUse

Fires when a player +USEs the vortigaunt. Template:Plact

See Also

• Vortigaunt - Background information about vortigaunts.