trigger_asw_synup_chatter

trigger_asw_synup_chatter is a brush entity available in Alien Swarm. It makes Crash or Vegas comment about 'SynUp Cola'.

Recommendations

• For best effect place near an actual 'SynUp Cola' Prop(machine or can).
• The Machine model is found via 'Swarmprops\furniture\sysnupmachinemesh.mdl'
• The Can model is found via 'Swarmprops\miscdeco\synupcan.mdl'

Keyvalues

Start Disabled

Should the trigger start disabled?

Filter Name

Name of the filter defining what type of entities can activate this trigger. Mostly unecessary in Alien Swarm.

Flags

• Marines And Aliens
• Pushables
• Physics Objects
• Only Marines
• Everything(not including physics debris)
• Physics debris
• Only NPCs in Vehicles (respects player ally flag)
• Correctly account for object mass(trigger_push used to assume 100kg) and multiple component physobjs (car, blob...)

Outputs

BaseTrigger Expand

OnStartTouch Fired when a valid entity starts touching this trigger. !activator is whatever touches the trigger. Bug:Spamming crouch jumps in a trigger can randomly fire OnStartTouch. Confirm:Is it a Multiplayer issue only?   [todo tested in ?] OnStartTouchAll Fired when a valid entity starts touching this trigger, and no other entities are touching it. If there are any other entities touching the trigger when a new one begins to touch, only OnStartTouch will fire. OnEndTouch Fired when a valid entity stops touching this trigger. Warning:This includes entities which are deleted while inside the trigger. In this case !activator will be invalid. Warning:Will also fire if sent Disable input or an entity teleports outside of the trigger area. Warning:OnEndTouch can fire before OnStartTouch under certain circumstances where both are fired on the same tick and each have the same delay. Fix:Add a slight delay to OnEndTouch. Bug:Spamming crouch jump in a trigger can randomly fire OnEndTouch. Confirm:Is it a Multiplayer issue only?   [todo tested in ?] OnEndTouchAll Fired when all valid entities stop touching this trigger. OnTouching  (in all games since ) Fired if something is currently touching this trigger when TouchTest is fired. OnNotTouching  (in all games since ) Fired if nothing is currently touching this trigger when TouchTest is fired.

Inputs

BaseTrigger Expand

Toggle Toggles this trigger between enabled and disabled states. Enable Enable trigger Disable Disable trigger TouchTest  (in all games since ) Triggers either the OnTouching or OnNotTouching outputs for whether anything is touching this entity. Bug:Sleeping prop_physics will never fire "OnTouching". Also applies to entities using prop_physics as base.  (tested in: ) StartTouch  (in all games since ) !FGD Behave as if the !caller entity had just entered the trigger volume. Accepts non-physical entities. EndTouch  (in all games since ) !FGD Behave as if !caller had just exited the trigger volume. DisableAndEndTouch  (only in ) Disables this trigger and calls EndTouch on all currently-touching entities.