nice work

the commands dont work and i tried restarting the game if your were gonna ask me

CRAB WITH MINIGUN POGGERS

Also Also, the ragdoll doesn't seem to have collision and cannot be grabbed by the physics gun.

Not really sure if you're still updating this... or if you're even reading this, but there seems to be an oddity in MK2's model, like some kind of weird stretched polygons on its left front leg.

Also, I'm not really sure if this is intentional or not, but the model seems to have no reflectivity (unlike other combine NPC's, like a strider), only shaders. Again, not sure if this is on purpose, just saying.

im not really sceard of most things in video games but this is accully just tarryfing

Attempting to spawn in the crabsynth using automatic spawns seems to have an issue with the model.

[Crab Synth SNPC] lua/entities/npc_crabsynth.lua:255: bad argument #1 to 'IsValidModel' (string expected, got nil)
1. IsValidModel - [C]:-1
2. unknown - lua/entities/npc_crabsynth.lua:255
3. Spawn - [C]:-1
4. SpawnNPC - lua/sv_npcd_spawn.lua:512
5. TargetSpawnPreset - lua/sv_npcd_spawn.lua:2290
6. func - lua/sv_npcd.lua:620
7. unknown - lua/includes/extensions/net.lua:33

[Crab Synth SNPC] lua/entities/npc_crabsynth.lua:344: bad argument #1 to 'SetModel' (string expected, got nil)
1. SetModel - [C]:-1
2. SelectSchedule - lua/entities/npc_crabsynth.lua:344
3. unknown - lua/entities/npc_crabsynth.lua:392

Thought I'd mention it.

Ichthyosaur

If you ever do end up updating this again, I think the intended way it works is that you're supposed to damage it's underbelly with grenades, especially taking the animations in consideration. Not saying to make it invulnerable to bullets, but that 'bodythrow' animation or whatever it's called can be used for that, like a stun.

examining the repo, and the crabsynth right now. thanks for informing.

@DevilHawk
Ironically you ended up right with the melee.

um it's going to need to be updated, the hl2 model repo leaked and crab synth has two melee attacks and range attack was a burst only.

Why not save the hp dm? It's too painful to type this every time

Awsome!

For some reason when it dies it keeps playing idle animations instead of the death animation. Anybody know a fix?

Ah alright, it's still a good NPC nonetheless

thank you for suggestion. the original model has no melee attacks other than the charge anim, nor can I animate one. I'd expect a stomp animation, a claw hit attack or an impale animation with front legs and would work well but there's nothing I can do at the moment, sorry.

Hey not sure if this is still being worked on but I wanted to suggest something, perhaps giving it a melee attack when enemies get too close? I'm unsure if there was ever any melee attacks built into the original model, but it would definitely make it much better at combat, given it only relies on it's minigun it seems and the charge, which are both ranged attacks, anything standing in front of it, it just tries deploying it's minigun it appears, allowing for enemies to overwhelm the npc.

Freaking great, I'll have alot of fun using this guy and the mortart synth in the future. Is there any chance that you guys will try to recreate the elite Metropolice? I know that it's unlikely since theres's no leaked elite cop ai (that I know of) but i mean it would be interesting to see what you guys could come up with

can it walk tho?

It was almost a year ago lol.

Just letting you know, I have uploaded an addon that uses this crabsynth model. Not sure if you remember it, but you allowed me to use it a while ago.

Out of all hl2 beta/unused enemies recreations on workshop that I tested out this series is my favourite one. I like that it doesn't require any NPC base and that it uses content from base game. I also appreciate that you made them resemble base game npcs a lot- mortar synth gibbing into props after death, simple abilities etc.
In case you decide to add beta textures to this addon, it would be great if you kept version with retail textures as a separate spawn in NPC category (kind of like in DevilHawks ministrider addon) so that it would still be compatible with retextures.

Would be cool to see recreations of some stuff that was almost fully coded into hl2 but never made it into visualization stage (eg. electrical drone) in the future

you should replace the blood decals with the antlion or headcrab ones

it would make the addon perfect!

can you make the weird needles thing actually insta-kill you when you get too close, as in you get impaled? there is one other crab synth in HL2 Beta NPC pack that does it and it would be amazing if this one did it too.

good idea, i hadn't known that. i haven't used any custom materials for this addon, implementing the beta textures will add custom materials into the addon folder.

i really don't know. i will think about this for a while and will see whether i'll ever replace materials on this crabsynth.

Shouldn't the beta textures for the crab synth be used since the textures were scaled down in the final?

crab synth is specailized ground striders like hunters and ministriders

beat it without explosives or combine balls, hl2 stuff only no healing gg ez

honestly, really well made , and pretty balanced too

you think of everything, nice work, should definitely be used in custom maps

sorry my bad. i had implemented keyvalue support for "max_health" which was overriding the console variable sk_crabsynth_health_2 when you spawn it from the spawn menu.

is it just me or crab synth hp doesn't change when you input a different number now

you should make the energy ball only be able to do a certain amount of damage to the crab synth like it does to striders, maybe do 50 or 100 damage

Is it possible (Or nessesary) To make the crab synth Be able to fire while moving?"

done, as you requested.

Are you able to make the CrabSynth be friendly to VJ Combine NPCs?

even better, released just now. https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2561142114

Is the mortar synth almost done now?

Clearly the best crabsynth on the workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH31Zv5_xqo

here is the current situation of mortar synths. nearly done, with the exception of npc sounds and gibbing on death.

sorry that the video stops at some intervals. it was not like that when I took a record.

Any news on the MortarSynth NPC?

Thanks a lot!!

feel free to use the model.
be aware that you might require recompiling, because

1-) act_range_attack1 is bound to transition animations just like ministrider
2-) firing some of the sounds are handled with animevents and you cannot customize them with ease without decompiling
3-) act_special_attack1 is also bound to transition animations which is partly broken.

i will add my qc and smd files to the description for your little project.

Is it okay if I use this crab synth model for a little VJ Base project? I'm not going to publish anything as of right now.

Crab synth stops moving after it does one of its attacks for some reason. Other than that this is a really good addon!

Nice to see that it got updated with improvements! Keep up the good work!

Since it has spikes when it walks, my guess if the CrabSynth at 1 point was suppose to have a animation or a mode where it extends its spikes. Could be possible.

Personaly I don't like that they are extending like that, but do whatever you want. :)