models, the eternal nemesis Created 20 years ago2004-05-19 20:04:30 UTC by Asghod

Hello, I'm new here. I've been reading posts since a few days and now here I am. Now I need help, let's see if anybody can help me ^^U

I want a soldier to be sitting in a desk. Right. I can re-skin the sitting_scientist or re-skin a scientist and make it sit down with a script_sequence. But, complicating things, I ALSO want scientifics in my map, so I don't wanna modify the pak file. The solution would be, then, to simply create a monster_generic, but it won't be sitting.

Anybody can help me? Thank you!

Modify the scientist models that you dont lpan to do. Somwhere there is the 4 models of einstein, glasses and the other 2. Go find them.

hmmm... there's about 9 or so files of scientist.mdl, besides, HLMV only allows to open the first of them...

I can't think of a way around this. Why don't you get an hgrunt to sit? Don't they have sitting animations?

Apart from that... coding looks possible. Maybe Spirit.

I see... but Spirit doesn't work under HL, does it?

scientist.mdl contains the model and it's several appearances (called body parts), as well as some sequences. The other 7 files all contain some sequences. There are no 4 models for the 4 'different' scientists, the head is just a body part that has 4 options. Grunts also have 4 different heads available, as well as 3 weapon types (no weapon too! ;)).

What you should do, is decompile the scientist model, reskin it (or remodel it, but leave the skeleton intact) and compile it into a model with a different name than scientist.mdl. You can then use that model with a monster_generic.

yes, I thought about that, but then it won't be able to sit down, because generics don't obey scripts, right?

In fact, I never tried. Try it yourself...

If it doesn't work, you can always try to add a body part to the scientist model, a military body and a military head, and find out what's the 'body' value of it (in Advanced properties, you can add a 'body' key and give it a value, those value's correspond with certain body-parts combinations.).

The advanced options of a monster_scientist, I mean...

make sure you do asing the bones right

Hey, I'll thank you very much. I use spirit, so I think the second option would be good, if it's possible. Thank you again.