monstermaker properties Created 6 years ago2017-10-30 12:49:01 UTC by User#6970

Hi, I'm using monstermaker to spawn scientists. I was wondering if there was a way to set the body property to spawn specific scientists. This option is found on monster_scientist. Thanks

Unfortunately there is no way to do this in vanilla HL.

Yeah looking at the source code pretty much confirms so. However it wouldn't be so hard to modify for a mod. All happens in monstermaker.cpp->CMonsterMaker::MakeMonster. One would need to loop through pev values and assign them to pevCreate, much like it's probably done for a multi_manager.

Yeah that's one way to do it.

If you're willing to make extensive modifications you can do it like Source and use template entities to instantiate whenever and wherever you want, but that's tough to get right due to how entity data is handled.