Half-Life Featureful SDK 2024-01-12

The mod sample is included in the archive, with the test map and assets

The provided FGD has an extended format used by J.A.C.K. and won't work with Valve Hammer Editor!

Changelog

Support for subtitles

Mods can use sound/captions.txt and sound/captions_profiles.txt files to define captions.
Sample files defining captions for some sentences on the first two maps of "Anomalous Materials" chapter are packed with the mod sample.

HUD scaling

Added hud_scale client cvar to control HUD scaling. 1 means the original scale. 0 means autoscale depending on the screen resolution. Note that support for high definition sprites from the anniversary patch will be added later.

Configurable Weapon Layout

Weapon layout can be configured in features/hud_weapon_layout.cfg file. The format is described in the sample file.

Entities

• trigger_configure_monster can configure more monster's parameters: Free Roaming, Gib Policy and Size For Grapple.
• Added dead turret entities: monster_miniturret_dead, monster_sentry_dead and monster_turret_dead
• Added Custom amount parameter for ammo entities.
• Added Custom Initial Ammo parameter for weapons.
• Added Delay after blocked parameter for monstermaker. If not zero, this is used instead of spawn delay before trying to to spawn the monster again, if the spawn was blocked before.
• Added Don't fire look target for trigger_camera.
• Added scripted_following entity and the Followage policy parameter for following monster (Experimental).

Bugfixes

• Fixed HUD not showing after 'fullupdate' command.
• Fixed repeatable scripted_sequence with Walk or Run move type not properly working after it got interrupted and triggered again (Half-Life bug). Thanks @Aynekko for reporting.
• Fixed scripted_sequence being unresponsive when it has Idle Animation and Turn to Face move type (Half-Life bug).

Configurable features

• Color values in hexadecimal form can be prefixed with # symbol instead of 0x.
• hud_autoscale_by_default - whether hud_scale value is 0 by default (meaning autoscale).
• crosshair_colorable feature and corresponding cvar. Allows crosshair color to depend on the chosen HUD color. Requires a sprite with white crosshairs to apply colors properly. Experimental feature, not enabled by default.