CODING MONSTERS
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Updated June 26, 2001 - 7:08 PM

Coding Monsters Using the Half-Life SDK

Monsters in Multiplayer Mode -- You can easily hack the SDK to allow monsters in deathmatch and teamplay games. Open up HL.DSW in Visual C++ (or other C++ compiler). Find the code for the FAllowMonsters method in the CHalflifeMultiplay class.

BOOL CHalfLifeMultiplay :: FAllowMonsters( void )
{
// return ( CVAR_GET_FLOAT( "mp_allowmonsters" ) != 0 );
return TRUE; // KGJ: allow monsters
}

Notice that I have commented out the "return" statement. FAllowMonsters normally returns FALSE, because the CVAR for mp_allowmonsters is set to zero. (This is elsewhere in the code. An alternative approach: set the CVAR to a non-zero value, allow FAllowMonsters to behave normally.)

By adding the "return TRUE" statement, I'm telling the calling function:
"It's true: monsters are allowed in multiplayer."