Npc dog
Entity Description
Dog is one of the main characters introduced in Half-Life 2 and is described by Alyx Vance as being built by her father, Eli Vance, to protect her after the events at Black Mesa. Alyx has been "adding to him ever since" however and he is now bigger than any adult.
Appearances
Your first meeting with Dog takes place at Black Mesa East when Alyx takes you outside and teaches you how to use the Gravity Gun. The training session plays out as an elaborate game of catch with Dog throwing objects for you to catch and toss back to him. The game is interrupted however when Scanners fly over and the area is blanketed with Headcrab Canisters. Dog helps you escape to Ravenholm.
He provides further assistance later in the game, during a fight through the streets of City 17 where he throws cars at Combine soldiers before finally being carried away on the back of a Dropship, and nearer the end where he finds a way for you to sneak in to the Combine Citadel.
It is unclear what happens to Dog after the destruction of the citadel, but a teaser trailer for expansion pack Aftermath implies that he will return.
Note:Some keyvalues, spawnflags, effect flags, inputs, or outputs might not affect an NPC, based on the functionality and coding of the NPC.Keyvalues
Flags
Inputs
- SetPickupTarget <string>
- Sets the target entity for d0g to pickup.
- StartCatchThrowBehavior <string>
- Tells d0g to start playing with the player. You can pass in the name of the object you want him to play with otherwise he'll find the closes phys_object.
- StopCatchThrowBehavior <string>
- Stop the catch and throw behavior.
- PlayerPickupObject
- Tells d0g the physgun just picked up an object.
- StartWaitAndCatch
- Tells d0g to wait for the player to throw an object at him.
- StopWaitAndCatch
- Tells d0g to stop waiting for the player.
- SetThrowArcModifier <float>
- Used to pass in a modifier for d0g's object flight arc.
- SetThrowTarget <string>
- Set d0g's throw target (pass in !player if you want the player)
Outputs
- OnDogThrow
- Fires when d0g throws an object.
- OnDogPickup
- Fires when d0g picks up an object.
- OnDogCatch
- Fires when d0g catches an object.