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

• Template:Kv basenpc

Flags

BaseNPC flags 

Wait Till Seen : [1]

Prevents this NPC from seeing (or being seen) until it enters a player's viewcone.

Gag : [2]

Won't make IDLE sounds until it's angry.

Fall to ground (unchecked means teleport to ground) : [4]

Drop Healthkit : [8]

Causes this NPC to drop an item_healthvial upon dying.

Efficient : [16]

Don't acquire enemies or avoid obstacles

Wait For Script : [128]

Forces this NPC to "wait" in an idle state until it finishes playing a scripted_sequence.

Long Visibility/Shoot : [256]

By default, increases a NPC's sight range to 6,000 units and allows it to attack from anywhere within that distance.

Fade Corpse : [512]

Think outside PVS : [1024]

Allows this NPC to run its regular AI outside of any player's PVS.

Template NPC : [2048]

Marks this NPC as a template for entities like npc_template_maker. The NPC will not spawn on its own. This is not needed for point_template.

Do Alternate collision for this NPC (player avoidance) : [4096]

Note:This flag is disabled in episodic for player companions, because the StartScripting input does this.

Don't drop weapons : [8192]

Ignore player push : [16384] (in all games since )

Entity won't give way to player.

Inputs

• Template:I basenpc

• 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

• Template:O basenpc

• OnDogThrow

Fires when Dog throws an object.

• OnDogPickup

Fires when Dog picks up an object.

• OnDogCatch

Fires when Dog catches an object.