Npc advisor

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The sluggy, evil, worm like things that are known as Combine Advisors.

Advisor, as seen in Episode Two

Bug:This entity is prone to crashing the engine  [todo tested in ?]

Do not spawn these ingame, as the model name must be specified as a keyvalue - failure to do so results in a null-pointer exception !

Dedicated Console Cvars

• sk_advisor_health (def. 1000)

Defines an Advisor's Spawn Health.

Keyvalues

• Levitation area: Trigger volume inside which levitated objects reside
• Levitation goal bottom: Objects will levitate at least this high
• Levitation goal top: Objects will levitate at least this high
• Priority name for grabbing: If any entities named this are present, the advisor will preferentially pick them up for throwing at the player.

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.