[Twilight Suzuka]

Making him die is easy, and so is the making him flinch. You need to make him think every frame or even just 1.0, and when his health goes down, play a pain animation and make a sound, and then do a death animation when his HP goes below 1, and remove him.

[XxAvalanchexX]

Can you actually make an entity Think, the good ol' HL way, with FM, or do you have to replicate it with Small?

[Twilight Suzuka]

You can, in theory, make an entity think just like in the HL source using engine and FM.

I've used call_think and register_think and all that.

[v3x]

Could you tell me how to do the whole fakedamage() thing?

[XunTric]

Nice!
BAILOPAN should place this in usefull links

[Twilight Suzuka]

Not too useful right now. I'll update it tonight for adding simple thinks, and giving the NPC a weapon.

[XunTric]

Can you give it a weapon, make it follow you, and make it shoot on enemys?

And btw, that talking thing...
How to i make the NPC talk everytime somebody is near him/she and press "use"-button? (Show a message print, or motd window or something like that...)

[Twilight Suzuka]

Well, here is how you can give your NPC a weapon:

        entWeapon = create_entity("info_target") 

        entity_set_string(entWeapon, EV_SZ_classname, weapString) 

        entity_set_int(entWeapon, EV_INT_movetype, MOVETYPE_FOLLOW) 
        entity_set_int(entWeapon, EV_INT_solid, SOLID_NOT) 
        entity_set_edict(entWeapon, EV_ENT_aiment, entOwner) 
        entity_set_model(entWeapon, "models/p_m4a1.mdl")

thats from geezu's guide to giving a model a weapon.

Basically, you make another ent, give it a classname like, for instance "ts_groundweapon" or "ts_worldweapon". It doesnt actually matter what the classname is, but its good to be consistant with the mod your going for.

You make it not solid, and make it follow the model entity you want, and then give it a model. Keep in mind that depending on the model, you will want to have a different animation called. Check the model for details.

In addition, I've been working very hard on using engine to make the entity "think" like a normal HL default ent. Once this is done, I will post it, and the possibilities will be endless.

See, with SMALL, you'd have to check damage and such every server_frame, but if you have a constantly calling think(), then you can check it every server_frame (or close to it), but the calling is really done inside the engine, making it not lag very much (since all ents do this).

Then we can do all sorts of things to make the entity move, walk, shoot, etc etc.

Anyway, just be patient.

[v3x]

Can you show me how to make it take damage, or be 'killable'?

[TotalNoobScripter]

Then we can do all sorts of things to make the entity move, walk, shoot, etc etc.

*waits for future replies*

also, is this that dam onna model i had to dl when i joined Marc's server

P.S. You can make hostage ents if you want them to just follow, but when you write how to make the entity move, walk, and shoot; this will be much better