Episode 8: Scripted Entities | Level Creation Guide for Half-Life

TIMESTAMPS:
00:25 - 00:38 - Room setup
00:38 - 04:56 - Making Barney move using the Scripted Sequence entity
04:56 - 05:28 - Installing Jed's Model Viewer
05:28 - 06:02 - Adding Jed's Model Viewer into J.A.C.K as plugin
06:03 - 09:43 - Making Barney animate using the Scripted Sequence entity
09:56 - 17:08 - Making Barney speak using the Scripted Sentence entity.
JED"S MODEL VIEWER DOWNLOAD:
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Cylon8472 cthulhu growl sound:
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Hanging Letters font by Hareesh Seela:
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Cafe Nero M54 font by justme54s:
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[@xxxvertigoxxx]

Easy to follow and very useful information. Honestly, you have the best goldsrc tutorials on youtube, well done dude, I really appreciate the time and effort you put in to teaching us :)

[@Chaos7040]

Thank you so much for your kind comment! It's very awesome to hear that these tutorials have been useful! Makes the effort all worth it!

[@noxy5193]

you know, these tutorials really help me alot, keep up the great tutorials!

[@Chaos7040]

I am very happy to hear! Thank you so much!

[@elmundodeFreeman]

Love your tutorials.

[@Chaos7040]

Hey there, thank you for your comments. I am happy to hear you enjoy the series!

[@Naftoreiclag]

Great video! By far the best explanation of Half-Life's cutscene system I've seen.

[@Chaos7040]

Awwwe! Thank you so much! Happy to hear!

[@mushfeeqslarmie353]

Thanks for the tutorials. It Really helped me since I started creating a map for half-life. Keep it up 👍

[@Chaos7040]

Your comment makes these videos worth all the time and effort! Thank you for such a nice comment

[@wibble2482]

These tutorials are some of the best I've ever seen.

[@Chaos7040]

Awwwwe thank you so much for your comment! I am grateful to know these episodes have provided help with creating levels!

[@DrP33lz]

Great video, it helped me very much :D

[@Chaos7040]

I am very happy to hear! Thank you!

[@Edupro-zh5ym]

Thank you, this really helped me to make my first Half Life map on J.A.C.K.

[@Chaos7040]

edupro 2000 I am very happy to hear the series has helped! Thank you so much for your comment!

[@gluipertje]

Great video! I was wondering however how i would go about making a barney stand in front of a door with an idle animation and then having him move out the way when a trigger is activated. Kinda like in the base game when you have to get a HEV suit before being allowed to continue. When trying this it works without an idle animation in the scripted_sequence but it doesn't work with said animation is inputted in the scripted_sequence (Like stated in the video). Is there a workaround for it? EDIT: Nvm, i figured it out (again :p ). You just have to have 2 scripted_sequences with the same name, one which has the idle animation inputted and the other has to have the move command. Then trigger them both and voilá

[@vicvortex4855]

I actually used the " fence " animation on an Otis when making a simple tiny thing for Opposing Force. As soon as he went for that candy machine, he got zapped, ouch! Either way, very useful information.

[@Chaos7040]

Clever! I should of done something similar in the episode!

[@vicvortex4855]

@@Chaos7040 Hey, it's alright, I might upload any crazy ideas like that later on here to show. But yeah, thank you for making these tutorials again! ^ ^

[@lenny1745]

Hello, thanks for your tutorial, Do you know if you can upload your own sound effect instead of only the one available in half life files ? Same question for the skin of monsters, I would like to personalize the NPC

[@Forgotten_soldier200]

thanks, this tutorial really helped me out, but theres a question. how do i make the door open when barney finishes the task?

[@martinparker9249]

i have a question.... i never managed to get the sonic pecking pit alien thing to work.....do you know how ? its 'pit' is in the entities and model viewer list but wont appear out of it wen placed on map iirc ?

[@monsterurby]

Are you talking about the pitworm or pitdrone from opposing force?

[@martinparker9249]

@@monsterurby no Tentacle alien ,anyway i sussed it now its a bit funny in the editor how you place it on the map

[@monsterurby]

@@martinparker9249 Ah, that guy.

[@quantumuniversetvinc.6117]

do you know how i can import models from other maps? ive decompiled and reskinned the .mdl files , but i cant figure out how to add them to the map. i can only add standard half-life entities like monsters and scientists and barney

[@Chaos7040]

Hello! I am not 100% sure what you mean by models. You can use the monster_generic to choose a model from Half-Life's model collection

[@quantumuniversetvinc.6117]

@@Chaos7040 i am basically trying to add killable NPC's to a city environment, using NPC models i downloaded. i opened them in jed's model viewer and they are all fully animated

[@Chaos7040]

@@quantumuniversetvinc.6117 Hey again! I am not too sure about this, as I have never done something like this, but it seems possible. I am sorry I can't be of more help

[@jpettltd]

@@quantumuniversetvinc.6117 this might help gamebanana.com/questions/6570

[@BilinmeyenBey]

Nice Videos! And Tutorials. Can you help me with a thing? I want to make a "Barney" to open a door for me, like in Half-Life's Campaign. Barneys will go to door and do a animation, and succesfully opens a door. How Can I do that? Please let me know :)

[@Chaos7040]

I am happy to hear! Thank you so much! I believe the way to do this is by having the scripted sequence entity target a multimanager that targets the door to be opened. Then you can use the multimanager to time the door opening right after barney finishes his animation

[@BilinmeyenBey]

@@Chaos7040 Nice! I get it. Also, How Can I make the player, when he passed a trigger point (which is trigger_once [I guess]) and when he passed like in Opposing Force., I want to vanish player's guns

[@Chaos7040]

@@BilinmeyenBey Awesome! I am not too sure how to do this. Perhaps decompiling the map in opposing force that does this may reveal how it's done

[@BilinmeyenBey]

@@Chaos7040 I wish I know how to make that. But I found it. If you gonna re-upload or do a part of these "triggers" (which you said will do), add "player_weaponstrip". It auto vanishess all guns. All so thanks

[@Chaos7040]

@@BilinmeyenBey Wow, I'm glad to hear you found it out! Thank you, and good luck!

[@InternetLegends-fe6ty]

hey man so i have made a scripted seqence were a scientist walks to a console and does an animation but when the SS is triggered nothing happens the scitist is already at the spot with out walking and i don't have it set to instsintanious i have it set to walk also the animation does not play but i know theres and animation for the scientist called console

[@Chaos7040]

Send me Dropbox link and I’ll take a look

[@InternetLegends-fe6ty]

@@Chaos7040 www.dropbox.com/s/3n1vpsz76kpdb6d/part1.jmf?dl=0

[@Chaos7040]

@@InternetLegends-fe6ty Tested it out, and found it really strange too. Nothing you did wrong or anything, its like the NPC just didn't want to work. I deleted him, and used a different name and it worked. Also, you had two separate trigger entities activating SS03 ( one near player_info_start, and other by door). If you want scientist to do it twice, it may be best to create another SS with trigger.

[@Edupro-zh5ym]

@@Chaos7040 I know why is happening, Did you putted the animation name correctly? It happened to me because I wrote pounding instead of pondering