scripted_sentence

GoldSrc

Source Engine

scripted_sentence is a point entity available in Half-Life. (also in Ricochet) This entity allows you to make a monster say something. Available sentence names can be found in the sound\sentences.txt file.

Key Values

Targetname:

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Target:

Target (target) <targetname>

The targetname of an entity this entity will trigger when activated.

TargetX:

Delay before trigger (delay) <integer>

Delay in seconds before firing the targeted entity.

Killtarget (killtarget) <targetname>

Entity to remove when activated.

Sentence Name (sentence) <string>

Sentence to play.

Speaker Type (entity) <string>

This is the name of the entity that says the sentence. It can be a targetname of the specific monster or a classname.

Sentence Time (duration) <string>

The duration in seconds before the monster becomes available for usage by a player once the scripted sentence has started playing.

Search Radius (radius) <integer>

If speaker type is set to the monster's classname, the scripted_sentence will try to find the monster only in this radius (in units, relative to the scripted_sentence origin).

Delay Before Refire (refire) <string>

Delay before trying to find the appropriate monster again once the scripted_sentence is activated but failed to find the speaker.

Listener Type (listener) <string>

The name of the entity that the speaker will look towards while speaking.

Volume 0-10 (volume) <string>

Sound Radius (attenuation) <choices>

#	Description
0	Small Radius
1	Medium Radius
2	Large Radius
3	Play Everywhere

Flags

Fire Once : [1]
Followers Only : [2]
Interrupt Speech : [4]
Concurrent : [8]