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Desired's AI Assault Creator

A simple STool that allows you to create assault entities to create assault scenarios. This is basically the opposite of the standoff system.

Assaults allow you to create rally points for one NPC each to participate in an assault by converging on the position of an assault point.

Left-click to spawn a rally/assault point. Right-click to spawn a goal assault entity. Reload to clear all points and goal assault entities.

Control Panel usage:
Point Type: Select either assaultpoint or rallypoint to choose which one to place down.

Goal Name: The name for the goal entity. Give it a unique name (don't use the same name for assaultpoints/rallypoints!).

Goal Actor/Class: The name of the NPCs/classname of the NPCs for the entity to look for. I highly recommend using a base name and an asterisk at the end (which allows you to use more names for NPCs that have the root name. example of a root name: combine* | example of an NPC using the root: combine1, combine2, etc).

Assault Cue: The trigger for the assault to begin. "Entity System Input" means you begin the assault yourself. "Gunfire" might not work from what the developer page says. "Don't wait for a cue" means that it will begin instantly.

Search Type: The type of name the goal entity searches for. "Entity Name" will search for NPCs with the given targetname (like root names such as combine1 derived from combine*). "Classname" will search for NPCs with the given class (such as npc_combine_s).

AP (Assaultpoint) Name: The name for the assaultpoint.

Allow Diversion: If set, if the affected NPCs come across any hostiles along their way to the assaultpoint, they will chase after them until they are dead or out of sight for as long as stated in Timeout. If not set, affected NPCs will shoot hostiles along their way to the assaultpoint but will not chase them.

Diversion Radius: If Allow Diversion is set, affected NPCs will only chase hostiles and divert from the assault to chase within this radius. If 0, this range is infinite.

Force Crouch: If set, when holding the assaultpoint, affected NPCs are forced into crouching. This only affects NPCs that naturally crouch, like Combine Soldiers.

RP (Rallypoint) Name: The name for the rallypoint.

Priority: The priority for the rallypoint in having the goal entity allocate NPCs to them.

Selection Method: How the goal entity selects NPCs for rallypoints. "Choose by priority" will choose rallypoints by their priority values. "Choose randomly" will select random rallypoints.

Begin current assault: Begins the assault for the goal entity with the name stated by Goal Name. Not too sure on this but I believe you need to keep the same rallypoint and assaultpoint names as you gave when you set up a team.

Begin all assaults: Begins all assaults that were made.


Note: You can only allocate ONE NPC per rallypoint. Create multiple rallypoints and consider choosing multiple names for the Goal Actor field for each of them.
For individually naming NPCs, use my Name Assigner addon or some other addon that can do the same function.