Making two or more models for a monster

I have seen this thing in Afraid Of Monsters (AOM) for the zombies.But I want to do this for the a_slaves and a_grunts.Doese anyone knows how to do this?

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You can do this easily with Spirit of Half-life. All monsters have an option to use a custom model instead of the default one.

Other than that, some minor programming and some slight changes to your FGD will allow you to do this, but its probably just easier using Spirit of Half-life.

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OK.Helpful.
But I'm making the maps for OP4.So now I need to know how to join OP4 and Spirit...Hmmm...Maybe is in the coding.If I can use the OP4 and Spirit Source code...
But I can try this If I can find the codes.

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Well, using opposing force is going to be a problem. There is no way to merge Spirit of Half-life and opposing force, and its difficult to create the opposing force monsters and weapons in Spirit of Half-life or even normal Half-life because Gearbox (The folks behind Opposing Force) never released the Opposing Force source code, although some people have done it.

Basically, these are your choices:

• Stick with Opposing Force and only be able to use one model per monster.
• Learn c++ and code in the opposing force monsters and/or weapons into Spirit of Half-life (There are a few tutorials and forum posts that explain how to implement the code for Opposing Force weapons/monsters).
• Ask the folks who have recreated the Opposing Force weapons and models for Spirit of Half-life to give you their code, models etc.. (Don't count on it).
• Use Spirit of Half-life and stick with the normal Half-life monsters.

Choose wisely :wink: .

Personally though, I would just stick with Opposing Force and take advantage of all those extra monsters and weapons added to the sandbox, allowing you to paint more fun into your maps, unlessss there are a few Spirit of Half-life features that are pretty important for what you want to do (Spirit of Half-life has some fantastic features that allow you to do some amazing things in Half-life).

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Maybe it will be "- Learn c++ and code in the opposing force monsters and/or weapons into Spirit of Half-life (There are a few tutorials and forum posts that explain how to implement the code for Opposing Force weapons/monsters)"
But where are the tutorials?
Oh!And there is another thing.But I'll ask later.
And Gearbox made OP4,Blue Shift and helped for creating other games http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/index.php?p=games

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No wait!
It's the FGD!
Now the question is back to the models.What is the way to create the Submodels(different models for a monster)?

tnkqwe said:
Now the question is back to the models.What is the way to create the Submodels(different models for a monster)?

aaron_da_killa said:
You can do this easily with Spirit of Half-life. All monsters have an option to use a custom model instead of the default one.

Other than that, some minor programming and some slight changes to your FGD will allow you to do this, but its probably just easier using Spirit of Half-life.

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Afraid Of Monsters is using the HL.DLL and it has 11 models for a zombie.And I'm using the OPFOR.DLL.I'have seen the AOM's FGD:

@PointClass base(Monster) size(-16 -16 0, 16 16 72) = monster_zombie : "Scientist Zombie"
[
body(Choices) : "Body" : -1 =
[
-1 : "Random"
0 : "original"
1 : "no"
2 : "turken"
3 : "nono"
4 : "polisen"
5 : "bruden"
6 : "rymden"
7 : "groenus"
8 : "originalei"
9 : "vitei"
10 : "graglass"
]

The answer is in the FGD,not in the coding.So how can I create the SUBMODELS?

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Nuh, the answer is in the code.

The purpose of the FGD is to create a middle man between the code and Hammer. Since Hammer can not read the code, a text file containing all the entities and their properties that would be useful for hammer to know is inside the FGD file. Remember, all the entities and their properties are contained inside the code, Hammer has no idea what entities are in the code, so the FGD tells it what entities are inside the code.

What you are seeing is all of the options for a specific entity so that hammer can knows what options to display, options such as targetname, render fx or whatever and all the flags.

Inside the code however, for the entity "Scientist Zombie", is lines of code saying, ok, for the option "3" (which humans will see as "nono"), we need to pre-cache this model into the game, than we need to apply it to this npc. There is also something that says, "ok, now this entity is called "PointClass, monster_zombie, Scientist Zombie", in the FGD file, so whenever I am reading the bsp file and I see hammer has placed something inside my map called "PointClass, monster_zombie, Scientist Zombie" I know that it wants a Scientist Zombie there.

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You have a point.But how can I do the coding for OP4 knowing that there is no code in the internet.

aaron_da_killa said:- Learn c++ and code in the opposing force monsters and/or weapons into Spirit of Half-life (There are a few tutorials and forum posts that explain how to implement the code for Opposing Force weapons/monsters)

Where can I find the tutorials?

I'm waiting for an answer!

And I'm still waiting for an aswer for the tutorials.

Oh, right, ummmm let me have a look and I'll get back to you in a day or whatever.

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OK than!I'm will be waiting...and waiting...

Sorry, I need to search for em. Most of the tutorials are in the form of forum posts which are buried away on various websites.

Try searching the Spirit of Half-life forums. I remember a few are there.

Also, try this for some coding practice :). I would have linked ya to that same tutorial on this website but I just updated it and its going through approval.

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The article has been approved now, you can reach it here.

-Sorry for the delay

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Riven said:
The article has been approved now, you can reach it here.

-Sorry for the delay smiley

Your able to approve the tutorials?

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