monster_turret

Half-Life Turret in Model Viewer

monster_turret is a point entity available in Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Team Fortress Classic.

A retractable automatic turret which shoots any human or alien target on sight when activated. First seen in the final map of the Hazard Course, and in Office Complex. The turret is immune to all incoming damage because of its armored exterior, but its interior is vulnerable.

In most encounters from the Half-Life campaign, the turrets are seen hanging from the ceiling, but they can also be on the floor by changing the "orientation" keyvalue.

In Team Fortress Classic, the turret serves to discourage spawncamping attempts.

This entity is present in Half-Life: Source, but cannot be placed be placed in Hammer properly due to being missing from the FGD.

Keyvalues

Orientation (orientation) <integer choices>

Setting this KV to 1 rotates the model upside-down and gives it the EF_INVLIGHT effect flag (making it be lit based upon the ceiling's lightmap instead of the floor's).

• 0 - Floor Mount
• 1 - Ceiling Mount

Todo: Need to get images of the turret on the ceiling and on the floor...

Monster:

TriggerTarget (TriggerTarget) <targetname>

Name of entity to target when the trigger conditions are met.

Trigger Condition (TriggerCondition) <choices>

Condition to use for TriggerTarget

• 0 : "No Trigger"
• 1 : "See Player, Mad at Player"
• 2 : "Take Damage"
• 3 : "50% Health Remaining"
• 4 : "Death"
• 7 : "Hear World"
• 8 : "Hear Player"
• 9 : "Hear Combat"
• 10: "See Player Unconditional"
• 11: "See Player, Not In Combat"

Target:

Target (target) <targetname>

The targetname of the first path_corner in a path this monster will move to when spawned.

Targetname:

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Render FX (renderfx) <choices>

Render FX mode to use, for special effects.

Value	Description
0	Normal
1	Slow Pulse
2	Fast Pulse
3	Slow Wide Pulse
4	Fast Wide Pulse
5	Slow Fade Away
6	Fast Fade Away
7	Slow Become Solid
8	Fast Become Solid
9	Slow Strobe
10	Fast Strobe
11	Faster Strobe
12	Slow Flicker
13	Fast Flicker
14	Constant Glow
15	Distort
16	Hologram (Distort + fade)

Render Mode (rendermode) <choices>

Render Mode to use.

Value	Description
0	Normal
1	Color
2	Texture
3	Glow
4	Solid
5	Additive

Render Amount (0-255) (renderamt) <integer>

Controls transparency when using another render mode then normal. 0 is completely invisible, and 255 is opaque. If render mode is solid, then all values except 0 are opaque.

Render Color (R G B) (rendercolor) <color255>

Color to use by the specified render mode.
Also used on brush entities to control the speed of scrolling textures; see func_conveyor for more information.

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <angle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

Flags

• 1 : Wait Till Seen
• 2 : Gag
• 4 : Monster Clip
• 16 : Prisoner
• 32: Autostart
• 128 : Wait For Script
• 256 : Pre-Disaster
• 512 : Fade Corpse