NPCs ignore pit drones

[Pandaprewmaster]

So i have this HECU spawner for half life oppsing force to spawn those marines you leave behind since they cant come with you in vents etc i noticed that NPCs ignore pit drones completely even if the pit drones attack them they will just stare at the pit drone now i need ur skills to edit the friendly grunts including medics and engineers to shoot pit drones maybe also otis

[SamVanheer]

Can you provide a map to test this with?

[Pandaprewmaster]

Can you provide a map to test this with?

How so? Just use a code to spawn a HECU grunt near few pit drones of course make sure to have no target on yourself and press E as soon as possible to activate the grunt AI i can provide u with pics but idk how to do map since im using android or spawn a pit drone near a group of marines or any NPC u want make sure the NPC looks at the pit drone so you can see that the absurdity of the situation

[Pandaprewmaster]

You still there bro? Im counting on you

[SamVanheer]

monster_human_grunt_ally can fight pit drones just fine. It's just that when this NPC is spawned without any keyvalues being set it defaults to having no weapons equipped.

This is intended behavior: https://github.com/SamVanheer/halflife-op4-updated/blob/5cc4c357cd59e568536b25e2ff21003994f5871f/dlls/hgrunt_ally.cpp#L1197-L1201

And it's used in several maps to have grunts that don't have weapons equipped.

You can make grunts use the MP5 by default by adding this code:

if (pev->weapons == 0)
{
    // initialize to original values
    pev->weapons = HGruntAllyWeaponFlag::MP5 | HGruntAllyWeaponFlag::HandGrenade;
}

Right before this chunk of code: https://github.com/SamVanheer/halflife-op4-updated/blob/5cc4c357cd59e568536b25e2ff21003994f5871f/dlls/hgrunt_ally.cpp#L1180-L1201

But note that this will make those grunts have an MP5.

It may be easier to manually set the weapon when spawning them through code. To do that you can create the entity (but don't call Spawn yet), set the weapons keyvalue and then call Spawn.

If you need help figuring this out then you can ask for help in the TWHL Discord server: https://discord.gg/jEw8EqD

[Pandaprewmaster]

Here take a look these guys have weapons and they dont shoot them i forgot to tell you that i spawn them with weapons yet the same behavior is as seen in these pics they attacked the zombies yet not the pit drones idk maybe its my version but if you can give me the file that makes friendly grunts attack pit drones that be more than enough (:

[SamVanheer]

This project isn't designed to work on Android so that must be somebody else's doing.

[Pandaprewmaster]

Perhaps but im sure the DLL of yours is fine can you plz gimme it? (:

[SamVanheer]

It doesn't work that way. This project only supports Windows and Linux. Android is a completely different environment.

I'm pretty sure the Android version comes from this project: https://github.com/FWGS/hlsdk-portable

Ask them about it.

[Pandaprewmaster]

I mean this one

[Pandaprewmaster]

Okay thx for help anyway