Can you make security guards (or any friendly monster) hostile towards the player? Created 4 years ago2020-04-19 11:08:47 UTC by Zapp212

Hi. I'm making a mod where the player is supposed to be an enemy to all other "beings" in the game, including the sequrity guards and scientists. I don't know how or if you can do that, but I have searched all over the internet and I have found nothing yet so I would really appreciate if someone could help me.
Thanks

It'd require a little bit of programming. Each monster has got a 'classification', which can be one of the following:

• CLASS_NONE
• CLASS_MACHINE
• CLASS_PLAYER
• CLASS_HUMAN_PASSIVE
• CLASS_HUMAN_MILITARY
• CLASS_ALIEN_MILITARY
• CLASS_ALIEN_PASSIVE
• CLASS_ALIEN_MONSTER
• CLASS_ALIEN_PREY
• CLASS_ALIEN_PREDATOR
• CLASS_INSECT
• CLASS_PLAYER_ALLY
• CLASS_PLAYER_BIOWEAPON
• CLASS_ALIEN_BIOWEAPON
• CLASS_BARNACLE

So, you could download Solokiller's updated HL SDK for Visual Studio 2019 and change every CLASS_PLAYER_ALLY for example, into CLASS_HUMAN_MILITARY, then compile the .dll files.

Or you can just edit the monster relationship table:Alternatively, you could probably use Spirit of Half-Life 1.2, which allows you to set the classification for each monster individually, in the map editor. (though, it has a tendency to break other things and crash more often than vanilla HL)

It worked, thank you!
It took a while because I didn´t know how access and change the code in the game, but I figured it out after looking at a few tutorials and searching the web.

Oh, we got tutorials for that here at TWHL Wiki:

https://twhl.info/wiki/page/Half-Life_Programming_-_Getting_Started

Glad it worked, though!

There's also a setting in the Editor itself under flags 'Is hostile towards player when first seen'.