item_suit

HEV Suit

Entity description

The HEV suit (The Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit). An upgraded version of the Mark IV suit that Black Mesa employees were required to wear when handling anomalous materials (in Half-Life).

Placement Tip:This entity should be placed at least one inch above the ground, or it will not be visible in-game.

Suit jingle

When Dr. Gordon Freeman enters his suit in Half-Life 2 a small tune starts playing. Here is how to set this up:

• If you haven't already, create the item_suit entity.
• Create an ambient_generic preferably somewhere near the suit.
• Open its properties and name the entity. (This example will name it "SuitSong".)
• Select a song for its Sound Name property. The song used in Half-Life 2 is called song_trainstation_05_suit (music/hl1_song11.mp3), but there is apparently also a tune called song23 (music/hl2_song23_suitsong3.mp3) that judging by its name looks like it was intended for the HEV suit.
• Check that all three flags in the SuitSong entity are checked.
• Click on the item_suit and create an output for OnPlayerTouch that fire's SuitSong's PlaySound.

Keyvalues

• Item:

Flags

• 1 : Short Logon

When checked, doesn't play the logon (hl1/fvox/bell.wav) sample. In Half-Life this flag was used to cut the HEV suits long logon speech, but Dr. Kleiner apparently replaced it with a simple bell sound while upgrading it.

Inputs

• Item:

Outputs

• Item:

OnPlayerTouch

Fires when the player touches this item. !activator is the player.

OnCacheInteraction

This output fires when the player proves they have "found" this item.

Fires on:

• Player Touch (whether or not player actually acquires the item).
• Picked up by +use.
• Picked up by gravity gun.
• Punted by gravity gun.