SF's Hammer Tutorials - NPC Relationships

[@Silwerfish]

To make NPC do any kind of animation you use scripted_sequence entities, so play around with them a bit and see what you can come up with.

[@gsp1995]

You know what you could've also made in this tutorial? Making allies becoming your enemies, but you can't kill them, so just change the Reciprocal property to Yes and now you can kill them. But still, great tutorial for newbies. Keep it up.

[@Silwerfish]

@NoSRESPAWN Nodes are what the NPCs use to navigate the level. The nodes have connections between them and that information is given to the NPCs so they can find their way from one place to another.

[@Soulslayerzx]

Best source sdk tutorials in the world. Easy and simple, you should get paid for this.

[@Silwerfish]

@idonthatethissite You can make the relationships as complicated as you want, you can tell a specific combine to like a specific rebel for example. You'll have to change the relationship for every NPC you want to change the relationship. So if you want several combines to like the player, it won't be enough to just make one of them like the player.

[@Silwerfish]

You can use the same name for several NPCs or you can use wildcards (so if you have NPCs called "dude1", "dude2" and "dude3", set the name of affected NPC to "dude*" and all your dudes will be affected. Hope this helps.

[@Silwerfish]

Thank you for the feedback! I have added an annotation showing there's the Reciprocal option too.

[@Silwerfish]

@Strikerklm96 To do that you have to use Face Poser, my next tutorial will be on this so I'll probably have something for you in a week or so.

[@Silwerfish]

Thank you! :D The original idea was to create more advaced tutorials, but now I create about what's most requested instead. So if you've got any requests, you know what to do! ;D

[@Silwerfish]

@Soulslayerzx I'm glad you like my tutorials! :)

[@Silwerfish]

@Jacc0s use the ai_goal_follow entity. To learn more about the entity go to developer,valvesoftware,com and search for it.

[@Silwerfish]

@1point61803 You set the class name of the NPC instead of the actual name of it. A class name is for example npc_combine_s or npc_metropolice. If you don't want ALL NPCs of a certain type to be friendly, you can give the NPCs the same name or use wildcards (so one is named "combine_01", the other is named "combine_02". When you select what NPCs the ai_relationship should affect, you can just put in "combine_*" and it will affect all names that start with "combine_".).

[@Silwerfish]

@wolfservant5 There is a trigger_multiple.

[@FireFusionYT_0]

When the oldest videos give you help on making a game: *poggers* Aside, this is a helpful video, thank you m8e!

[@Silwerfish]

@SuperCrazyKillah I think point_template is a bit more demanding since it can be used on any entity or group of entities (probably not going to affect you unless you use a load of entities). If you want to make an NPC I suggest you stick to npc_template_maker since that's what it's for.

[@Silwerfish]

@MyFriendsCallMeTwig Yes, the player is known as "!player" without the quotes. Don't know how it works in MP though. Glad you like the tutorials! :D

[@Silwerfish]

@denniswarcrafter1 Just place an entity called npc_citizen, npc_zombie, npc_metropolice, npc_alyx, npc_combine_s, or whichever NPC you want in there and it will appear when you start the level.

[@Silwerfish]

@turtleshells118 They're not programmed to do that quite simply. Thanks!

[@RickRay9]

Oh, thanks! I thought you only showed how he attacks you. Thanks, is there any video about how to make them navigate and like.. break a door?

[@Silwerfish]

You can make npc_citizen npcs follow you, but I don't know of a way to make any other NPC follow you around. There might be an input on NPCs that can tell them to follow another NPC

[@Silwerfish]

You should be able to use the same method that I use in this tutorial. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm almost certain that relationship changes apply to NPCs that haven't spawned when the relationship was applied. (You can specify what name you want the spawned NPC to have in the npc_maker)

[@RickRay9]

Ok, thanks, but how to make combine get ready near a door to breach the door with dynamite or so. Like Scruffy's Combine Door Breach V2 look for it,.

[@Strikerklm96]

How can i make an npc say something and have his mouth move with it. because i know how to use ambient_generic

[@CounterLife]

how to change the NPC Relationship for the NPC_maker???

[@Xyz_xyz712]

Can anyone please tell me why mods won’t work on my map I made for Gmod but if I play any other map the mod works . Btw the mod is “ better hl2 NPC battles” on my map I made they sit still and some of the NPCs won’t even shoot but on any other map the mods works perfectly

[@MyFriendsCallMeTwig]

hi, i really need help! could you put your name as the target so they wont attack you(and only you) is there a way to do that? (to make them just like you) cuz im making this for a multiplayer server and i want them to ignore me. BTW Awesome Tutorials!!!! :) they help me alot !!!

[@Silwerfish]

No problem, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@superdvdman]

Awsome TUT. Thanks man. DO NOT DELETE.

[@Silwerfish]

@deaddiet To make an NPC walk you can use a scripted_sequence entity and set the NPC to walk to the destination in the properties of that entity. To learn a bit more about scripted_sequence entities, see my tutorial on NPC animations and/or search for it on developer,valvesoftware,com.

[@sanek_342]

i made alyx hostile but, she doesen't take damage, how to fix that?

[@idonthatethissite]

that easy? oh man the only thing I didn't know was !player thing... BTW if you have lots of enemyes you'll have to call them all the same or just use it to one and all combines will like you? and if you make him like a rebel for example, will he like you or attack you but not the rebel?

[@Silwerfish]

You just click the name of the value in the properties dialog, and you should be presented with a drop down box or a text field or something on the right where you can change its value. I hope this was what you meant.

[@cyclopticwonder5]

please do a toutorial on dropships

[@cptray-steam]

Didn't work, I tried !player, and !Player, and just leaving it blank. The combine still shot the player once I moved.

[@superman51786]

what texture?

[@Silwerfish]

I just get "404 - File or directory not found." (I did remove the two +).

[@warkiniskandervolselli]

When i make a friendly NPC hostile, you cant do any damage to it, how exactly do i make it so he can take damage from the player?

[@Silwerfish]

Do you have the "Reciprocal" setting on the ai_relationship set to "Yes"? The problem might be that the NPC is hostile towards the player, but the player is not hostile towards the NPC.

[@warkiniskandervolselli]

Thanks!

[@Silwerfish]

@NoSRESPAWN Well I cant explain it any better than that really.

[@Silwerfish]

@NoSRESPAWN I've made a tutorial on this, it's called "NPC Navigation".

[@Trashbinfin]

how do i do this in J.A.C.K?

[@Liamwitz]

What about multiple npc's?

[@wolfservant5]

why trigger once, is there a twice?

[@Silwerfish]

@NoSRESPAWN Ok, you're welcome!

[@Silwerfish]

@420GamingElite No idea, sorry.

[@Silwerfish]

@o0ZporK0o Yeah that works.

[@deaddiet]

@Silwerfish k , thx!

[@Silwerfish]

Thanks! There is, but that's coding (I think it's C++) and not something I am familiar with.

[@Piperz999]

Tack!!! :)

[@Silwerfish]

@rdovydas007 5 years or something like that.

[@Lhopx21]

Do you know if it is possible to change the relationship of a Vortigaunt?

[@Silwerfish]

I think so yeah, should work the same as for other NPCs I assume.

[@Lhopx21]

Silverfish (Lukas Orsvärn) Haha, thanks again. You've been a big help.

[@Silwerfish]

You are welcome! :)

[@Silwerfish]

What do you mean?

[@Silwerfish]

Thank you!

[@dovykiin]

How long have you worked with the Hammer ?

[@cyclopticwonder5]

and helicopters

[@Silwerfish]

@warkey13 Thank you man! :)

[@JawaProductions]

Nice, thank you.

[@Silwerfish]

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean! :/

[@Silwerfish]

Are you serious? Check the other tutorials I made man, I have tutorials on NPC navigation and NPC animation (how to make a combine kick in a door). Good luck!

[@PebsBeans]

Sadly, if you try to make a friendly NPC hate you, it doesn't try to kill you/hurt you/whatever you. Cuz' i'm currently trying to make npc_kleiner hostile

[@xweert711]

+StrongAdel No, npc_kleiner has no combat A.I. This does work with friendly NPC's.

[@TuhmatTohtorit]

Does this work in Half Life SDK?

[@colbyjackextracheese6249]

no only hl2

[@TuhmatTohtorit]

Ok

[@Silwerfish]

@superdvdman Thanks! I won't! :)

[@Silwerfish]

Hm, I don't think I can help you then, sorry. :/