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UPDATE: This problem had been solved on the TWHL Discord - apparently Remappable textures are always loaded from the model itself, but the Scientist's QC file originally had the $externaltextures command which tried loading the textures from their own model. No clue if tagging people works on here, but thanks to The303 and MoltenEQ for the help.

https://the303.org/tutorials/gold_qc.htm#A1

"Event ID 1000" is an animation event that can be called on a specific frame in an animation to "kill" the monster playing the animation. Animation events can only be triggered within a model's animation, which means that if you wanted to use this method you'd need to decompile your model and add the event somewhere at a specific frame.

$sequence fire "turret_shoot1" fps 150 loop {
{ event 5001 0 "51" } { event 5001 10 "51" } { event 5001 20 "51" }
// { event 5001 5 "1" } { event 5001 15 "1" } { event 5001 25 "1" }
}

In this example, "event 5001" triggers a muzzleflash to appear at a specific attachment, with the number right after the event dictating which frame of the animation the muzzleflash appears. To kill a monster with an animation, you'd use event 1000 and then add the number of the frame you want it to actually die right after. However, this method would require decompiling the Shock Trooper's model and either adding the event into the animation you want to use or adding a new death animation entirely.

That being said, I'm not entirely sure what other methods there are. The only examples of a scripted sequence in Half-Life that ends with the NPC dying that I can think of are the dying security guard in Office Complex and the dying scientist in Blast Pit, both of which kill off the monster through Event ID 1000.

I'd heard about GoldSrc allowing you to edit the colormaps of any entity that supports them, and had edited the scientist model to support colormapping. However, for whatever reason this model crashes my game with a "Cache_TryAlloc: 1433893744 is greater than free hunk" error? After having looked this problem up online, I've heard that it's because I haven't allocated enough memory to Half-Life or that I don't have enough RAM, but any other custom model seems to work fine when placed in valve_addon and I don't know why my model would be causing this error. Here's a link to the models if needed; I zipped all of them together just in case the "submodels" (scientist01.mdl and so on) are needed.
I will admit that my PC doesn't have the greatest amount of RAM, only 8 GB, but even so I really doubt that the problem lies in a lack of memory.

Oh my god I forgot to switch the compile mode to GoldSrc in blender. Hopefully I won't make that mistake again, lol!

Ah, makes sense. Thank you for responding again! It wouldn't be hard to set it back to a more reasonable amount of digits worth of space, would it?

Thank you for responding. In most cases I haven't touched the bones at all. I've simply decompiled the model from crowbar, edited a (really poor) scope on, and have tried compiling it again. "Bone09" was already there when I decompiled the model. It's just the SMG attachment bone, if I'm correct.

If I delete Bone09, it just tells me that it can't find the bbox for any of the other bones. I'll check out some of those blender tutorials though, thank you!

Recently i've decompiled HL1's SMG viewmodel to edit in blender. However, whenever I export the smd from blender and attempt to compile it with Crowbar (which I know is just a GUI for Valve's official tools, making studiomdl the problem here) It just says " unknown attachment link 'Bone09' ".

Is there a reason for this? I'm unfamiliar with HL1 viewmodel editing.

Thank you! That was the solution after all. It works perfectly now!
EDIT: I appear to have the classic Half-Life view bobbing (The one where the camera tilts from side to side).

I don't remember doing the tutorial for that, but I'm not really complaining to be honest! I like this view bobbing!
A few HUD elements are a bit odd, though. The suit meter is quite a bit away from the health meter, and the MP5 viewmodel's a bit more centered. Is this a problem with some sort of code talking about aspect ratios?

EDIT 2: The viewmodels are fine, actually. Still confused about the HUD shifting slightly though.

If I'm correct, hud_draw was set to 1 when I checked it in the console. However, I think I only compiled hl.dll. Should I compile client.dll now? Thank you for responding to me.

Hello. I've been working on a mod for Half-Life 1 simply so I could test some things out. So far, all I've done programming-wise is change the func_wall entity to print a message to the console (for which I just followed this tutorial https://gamebanana.com/tuts/12801), and I've changed the MP5's secondary function to the crossbow's secondary function (Instead of the Grenade launcher, the MP5 has a zoom-in feature.).

However, for some reason my HUD appears to be completely missing. In my starter map I have an HEV Suit placed down at the player's spawn point, so it is equipped. Even the flashlight and H.E.V voicelines work! However, I can't switch my weapon, and I can't see any HUD elements.

I've only modified hl.dll. I haven't touched client.dll.

https://youtu.be/pN41aBY7xSA

If it helps, I could try and include the DLL files.