Info director

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Template:L4d series point It is the notorious AI Director, and must exist in every L4D and L4D2 map for normal gameplay.

The director is almost entirely automated and only exists at design-time for the few situations in which other designer-placed entities need to communicate with it, such as for forcing survivors to their respective info_survivor_position at the start of a campaign for camera intro sequences.

Template:L4d2 add can output the director's anger level, allowing level designers to adjust conditions according to how well the players are doing.

Caveats

Using the changelevel console command to restart the map will cause the director to ignore the forcesurvivorpositions input.: If you are restarting the map after a fresh compile using changelevel and you need to test out your intro sequence, use the kill console command afterwards to have the mission fail, this will cause the map to restart in a way that allows the info_director to use forcesurvivorpositions input, which will also allow your cameras to function.
logic_auto cannot trigger forcesurvivorpositions unless the map was freshly loaded from the game menu as a campaign, or is restarting after mission failure.: To get around this, have the director call forcesurvivorpositions and releasesurvivorpositions on itself using the ongamestart input. When your campaign is ready for release, you can safely change it back to using a logic_auto before final compilation if you wish, since players will be loading your campaign from the game menu.

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

Origin:

Origin (X Y Z) (origin) <origin>: The position of this entity's center in the world. Rotating entities typically rotate around their origin.

Inputs

Original inputs

PanicEvent: Fired when a major event happens that the director should know about.
PanicEventControlled <int>: Like Panic Event, but allows for some control of intensity, via the number of waves. Standard values are 1 for earlier maps, 2 for later maps.; Note:PanicEventControlled only works in L4D1. In L4D2, a series of panic event (and much more!) are triggered by running director vscripts.
ForceSurvivorPositions: Make each survivor stand at an info_survivor_position.; Note:Also hides HUD, except Survival and Scavenge specific HUD overlays.
ReleaseSurvivorPositions: Allow survivors to move freely again.; Note:Also enables HUD again.
FireConceptToAny <string>: Fire a speech concept to any survivor that is capable of speaking it. Allows survivor dialogue to be triggered by map entities (e.g. No Mercy's elevator with parameter hospital04_path4)
StartIntro: Fire when the intro starts. Players are immune to damage while this is active. No mobs or SI will spawn.
FinishIntro: Fire when the intro ends. Players will now take damage. Mobs and SI can spawn given that the player is no longer standing in a nav square marked as PLAYER_START and/or CHECKPOINT.
EnableTankFrustration: Can be used to enable the tank frustration meter.
DisableTankFrustration: Can be used to disable the tank frustration meter.

Additional inputs

The following are additional inputs only available in L4D2.

BeginScript <string>
EndScript: Begin/End a Director VScript.
ScriptedPanicEvent: Run a Scripted Panic Event, a staged event similar to a finale.
ForcePanicEvent: Trigger a panic event, no matter what else is going on.
EndCustomScriptedStage: End a scripted type finale stage.
IncrementTeamScore <int>: Increment a team's score. (2=survivors, 3=infected)
CreateNewJournal <string>: Create a new journal.
WriteToJournal <string>: Add a task to the I/O Journal.
ExecuteJournal <string>: Execute all tasks in the specified journal

Outputs

Original outputs

OnGameplayStart: Fired when a map loads, all players join and gameplay begins.
OnPanicEventFinished: Fired when a panic event is finished.

Additional outputs

The following are additional outputs only available in L4D2. They focus on the new scavenge game mode and vscripts.

OnCustomPanicStageFinished: Fired when each stage of a custom panic event or custom finale finishes. Relies on vscripts.
OnTeamScored: Fired when a team places a scavenge item in the scavenge goal.
OnScavengeRoundStart: Fired when a scavenge round starts.
OnScavengeOvertimeStart: Timer has run out and game went into overtime.
OnScavengeOvertimeCancel: Time was added to the clock, ending overtime.
OnScavengeTimerExpired: Time has run out, game did not enter overtime.
OnScavengeIntensityChanged <int>: Intensity level has changed. 1 = highest intensity, decreases as number gets larger.
OnUserDefinedScriptEvent1-4: Generic user defined event fired from a squirrel script (UserDefinedEvent1()-UserDefinedEvent4())

Info director

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