hostages triggering events

I was just wondering how I can get hostages (or bots or any NPCs) to be able to trigger events. Is it a trigger multiple? If so, what flags should be set?

I don't map for CSS, but you should experiment by making multiple
triggers which do something obvious. Then, make your hostages
walk over all the triggers and find out which ones do what. (Make
sure that the player isn't the one walking over the triggers).

After all that, you should probably filter that trigger for a
filter_name entity. Set the filter_name entity to the hostage.

On triggers go under the flags tab, and see if theres a hosteages option...Just a thought

thats what i tried to do... but they dont' trigger anything... anyone know what the npc checkbox is for then??

This is just a shot in the dark, but could you make an invisible object
that will trigger events (like some kind of func_brush type object) and
then parent that to the hostage.

So the hostage will 'drag' the triggering object over the trigger.

Or you could havethe flag under the trigger entity set to NPC :smile:

that's what I tried initially and it does nothing... The invisible box following the hostage may work, but it would be a true hack job and wouldn't work for bots. I'm just gonna fiddle with it some more i spose

What about give the hostage entities a name, and using a
trigger_multiple with "everything" set in the spawnflags, but filtered
using a filter_activator_name to only the hostage's name.

(If the hostage_entity doesn't have a name field, you might have to
enter the hostage_entity name by turning off smartedit, and entering it
as the "targetname".)

You could probably give all hostages the same name, and it would still work.

Or using "hostage_entity" as the class for a filter_activator_class might work, too.